Dom Pristava in Javorniški Rovt - Barentaler Kotschna/Struška (by road)

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice take the exit Lipce and follow the road towards Jesenice. When you reach the semaphoreised junction where you join the old road, turn right in the direction of Žirovnice. Follow this road for only a short distance, as at the next slightly larger junction (traffic lights), turn left in the direction of Javorniški Rovto. The road then passes through an underpass (railway) and then turns left (Koroška Bela on the right). Follow the road, which starts to climb steeply higher up, in the direction of Javorníško Rovto. Follow the road to the parking lot near the mountain lodge.

Path description:
From the parking lot, walk to the mountain lodge, then continue your ascent along the initially less visible path that climbs up the left side of the marshy lake. Next, a beautifully visible and wide path leads us after a 5-minute walk to the road, where there is also a crossroads.
Continue right in the route Kahlkogel (left Javorniški Rovt, straight Španov vrh and Jelenkamen) and continue the ascent along the road, which first leads us past a large puddle, then turns right and leads us out of the forest. Once out of the forest, the view opens up towards Barentaler Kotschna, Medje dol and part of Belščice. The road, which continues to climb moderately, returns to the forest higher up and crosses a larger ravine, after which you soon arrive at a marked crossroads.
Leave the road here, which turns left and continues towards Križovec, and continue straight ahead on a less-traveled road. From the crossroads, walk along the road for just two minutes, then signs direct you left to cart track, which begins to climb steeply through the forest. After a few minutes of climbing, the path is laid and leads us out of the forest to the meadows of Pustega rovta, where we also join the road from Križovec. Here you continue straight along the gently sloping road, which quickly leads you to the nearby shepherd's hut.
Continue past the aforementioned bytes to the other side of mountain pasture, where the road turns right and then leads us within a few minutes to a crossroads by a torrent. Take the road to the right which crosses cart track towards the saddle Kočna (Golica on the left). Further on, you will again come across a barrier which you go around on the left. Just a few tens of metres further on, another barrier stops our route. The road continues to climb in a cross-climb to the east, mostly through the forest. A few minutes before mountain pasture the road passes out of the forest into the Barentaler Kotschna grazing areas and makes a sharp left turn from which we have only a few steps to the hut at mountain pasture.
From the hut continue eastwards, initially only slightly uphill. After a five-minute walk from the hut, the path leads to a less steep ravine, where you continue left on a less visible unmarked path (straight mountain pasture Seča). Continue up a grassy ravine surrounded by dwarf pines. At the top of this gully, the path, which is still difficult to follow, turns right into the vast world of Barentaler Kotschna. The path continues in a moderate ascent crossing the south-western slopes of Barentaler Kotschna, which are partly covered with dwarf pines (as the path is more difficult to follow, it is possible to quickly get lost among the dwarf pines). A little below the summit, the "path" leads to a ridge which is followed to the summit.

On the way: Pusti Rovt (1296m), Belska planina (Svečica) (1700m)

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