Jesenice (Ukova) - Jelenkamen (via Kalvarija)

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, take the exit Lipce, where we drive right towards Jesenice. In the settlement Javornik at the intersection with traffic lights we turn left towards the center of the town. At the second traffic-light intersection (at the gymnasium) we drive right back towards Tomšičeva cesta past the primary school on the left. Behind the school we drive past the pedestrian crossing and immediately turn into the first (narrower) street on the left. When we ascend it for some 10 meters, on the right we see the marked parking lot. Here is our starting point.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road uphill, whereupon after some 10 meters on the left we notice the Ukova swimming pool, and on the right the road which branches off uphill towards the north into the forest.
We step onto the latter and follow it for a short time, i.e. to the right turn before which on the same side there is a fenced water intake. On the other - left side we step onto the path which cuts the double bend of the road we left. Here we encounter the first blazes. Quite quickly we cross the road again, and step onto the path which begins to ascend towards the north. When it starts turning left, it joins the cart track alongside which we notice a signpost. Here we turn right onto the cart track, which quickly brings us to the first small bridge (Ukova stream), over which we immediately reach the second one too. Behind it, the path or cart track goes right uphill, then increasingly left towards the east. There follows some time of ascending on and along the winding cart track, where we always keep to the main - left path. When the slope eases, on the right we notice the signpost "kapelica" and the smaller hill named Kalvarija, on which there are a chapel and bench. We continue straight on the cart track, which turns into a path turning left. After some 10 meters we encounter a smaller water intake and the sign "Pristava". Here we cross the (often dry) stream and turn right towards the east (left - steeply uphill towards the north goes the path through Dole). Soon the path reaches a shorter ridge, where it turns left. After a few more minutes of ascending we come out of the forest to a spot of partial view towards the valley, which does not last long. When on the left we spot some kind of bench, the path turns sharply left (almost back towards the north-west) and ascends only moderately. Quite quickly the blazes direct us uphill straight towards the north and then increasingly right towards the east, after which we reach the first viewpoint towards the Ljubljana basin (ridge).
From here the path goes left uphill and then again right towards the second (main) viewpoint, which is located 50 m to the right of the marked path on the rocks with a bench. From this ridge the path, which goes left towards the north uphill, ascends ever more steeply, and soon we also encounter the first steel cable. After 20 m of secured path the steepness first eases, then the path makes its final ascent towards the summit, which we reach in a few minutes.

Along the route: Kalvarija (784m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Dom Pristava v Javorniškem Rovtu ( 40 min), Španov vrh

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