Potoče - Planinska koča Iskra na Jakobu (by road)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice, take the exit Kranj - East, then continue driving towards Jezersko. When you arrive in Preddvor, leave the main road and continue driving to the left, then after a few 10 m, opposite the Jelovica company, continue to the right in the direction of the villages of Potoče, St. Jakob and Potoška gora and Lake Črnava. The road continues through the village of Hrib, above which we reach a crossroads where we continue straight on (Hotel Bor and Lake Črnava on the left, the Senior Citizens' Home Preddvor on the right). There is a gentle climb of 100 m to a chapel, where the road turns right, and we follow it past a few more houses, then turn left in front of the Senior Citizens' Home into a large gravel parking area.
b) From the motorway Jesenice - Ljubljana, take the exit Kranj - West and continue left at the first junction. Continue through the underpass under the motorway and then to the roundabout, from where you continue in the direction of Golnik. The road continues through the village of Mlaka at Kranj, and at the end of the village we turn right towards Srakovlje. We then drive through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela to Zgornja Bela, where we turn right towards Preddvor. At the end of Preddvor, just 10 m before the road joins the main road Zgornje Jezersko - Kranj, turn left towards the villages of Potoče, St. Jakob and Potoška gora and Lake Črnava. The road continues through the village of Hrib, above which you reach a crossroads where you continue straight ahead (Hotel Bor and Lake Črnava on the left, Preddvor Senior Citizens' Home on the right). There is a gentle climb of 100 m to the chapel, where the road turns right, and we follow it past a few more houses, then turn left in front of the Senior Citizens' Home onto a larger gravel parking area.

Path description:
From the starting point, continue on the macadam road, which leads us after 10 minutes to a small crossroads where the road crosses the marked path leading from Senčnica Josipine Turnograjske to the Iskra mountain hut on Jakob. From here, the road leads through the forest for a short time, and then we arrive at the edge of a small clearing, where there is a beehive.
Continue straight ahead (the left-hand road soon ends and turns into cart track) along the road, which crosses the slopes to the right for a short distance, then turns left and begins to climb steeply. Higher up, the road crosses a marked and some unmarked path several times and climbs in a few serpentines. After a few serpentines, a left turn is reached, in the middle of which the newer cart track branches off to the right, and soon a path branches off to the left, leading to Babi, Mihčeva kopišča and a marked path past the spring below Potoška gora to St James.
Continue along the road, which climbs further to the left, and then leads to a point where a dirt track, about a minute long, branches off the road in a straight direction towards the church of St James and the Iskra Mountain House on Jakob (to the right Potoska Gora).

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Mihčeva kopišča ( 20 min), Baba ( 45 min), Potoška gora ( 35 min), Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu (2 h 15 min), Javorov vrh, Dom na Kališču (3 h 35 min), Cjanovca (3 h 5 min), Srednji vrh (3 h 20 min)

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