Zalog - Koča na Kriški gori

Access to the starting point:
a) Leave the Gorenjska motorway at exit Kranj West, then follow the signs for Golnik. In the village of Goriče, leave the main road towards Golnik and turn right towards Zalog. Follow the signs for Zalog, where the route described above starts in the centre of the village, by the mountain signs. There are no parking spaces at the starting point.

b) From Tržič, drive to Križe, then continue to Golnik and Kranj. In Goriče, leave the main road towards Kranj and turn left towards Zalog. Follow the signs for Zalog, where the route described above begins in the centre of the settlement, by the mountain signs. There are no parking spaces at the starting point.

Path description:
From the centre of Zalog, continue straight on towards Gozd and Kriška gora (Velika Poljana, Mala Poljana and Storžič on the right) and follow the asphalt road to the hamlet of Svarje, where the road turns left. The road turns to gravel after a few houses, and you leave before it starts to descend.

Continue to the right, where the road turns into the forest behind a house, and in the forest there are markings, which have not been present so far, with the exception of a mountain direction sign. Through the forest, initially climb crosswise to the left, but when you reach cart track, continue to the right. Cart track quickly splits, we take the left fork, and follow the signs at the next forks. At a higher altitude, cart track ends and we continue our ascent along the initially steep mountain path, which gradually becomes flatter. The path leads us out of the forest, to vast pastures, over which we walk in a few minutes to the village Gozd, where we go right in the direction of Kriška gora (left Shelter in Gozd and Golnik).
The way ahead leads us along the road for a short while, but it quickly turns into cart track, which climbs more steeply. After a short climb, cart track splits into two parts, and we continue on the left in the direction of Koča na Kriški gori (Tolsti vrh on the right). Cart track then passes by a waterworks and a weekend house and enters the woods, where it continues in a moderate ascent.

Only a little further on, the signs for Kriško hora direct us right (straight unmarked path to Kriško hora) to the slightly more rugged cart track, which turns into a relatively steep path higher up. Continue along a well-maintained path, along which you will notice a number of benches and the names of the benches next to them. Higher up, the path leads to a pasture fence and turns to the left only slightly higher up, where it then climbs cross-cuttingly. After a few minutes of cross-climbing, we emerge from the forest, where we see Koča na Kriški gori ahead of us, which is only a few 10 steps of easy walking away.
Zalog - Gozd 1:25, Gozd - Koča na Kriški gori 1:25.

On the way: Svarje (690m), Gozd (890m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Vrata, Tolsti vrh

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