Begunje - Velika Špička (via Cemarovnik)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Koper highway, we take the Unec exit and follow the road ahead towards Cerknica. Just a little before Cerknica, we continue left towards Begunje, then on a somewhat more winding road we quickly arrive in the already mentioned village. In Begunje, we continue driving on the main road, then at the intersection by the Mercator store, we continue straight on the macadam road by which we notice signs for Špičasto Stražišče (left Bezuljak, right Selšček). We then follow the worse macadam road to a smaller parking lot by the village bowling alley.

Route description:
From the starting point, we continue on the worse macadam road, which already after a few dozen steps of easy walking brings us to a junction of three cart tracks. We continue on the most left (or also middle) cart track, which in a gentle ascent brings us to the next marked junction. This time we continue on the right path (at the junction there are signs for Špička left and right), which leads us along the upper edge of extensive karst meadows. After a few minutes of walking, the blazes direct us left (straight to Selšček) onto a somewhat steeper footpath, which gradually brings us onto an increasingly panoramic grassy slope. Up the mentioned slope we ascend straight upwards and follow the easy-to-follow path all the way to the edge of the forest, next to which there is a pleasant bench (view of Begunje and surroundings). The path ahead begins to ascend even a bit more steeply through a belt of forest, then it levels out and after a few steps of further walking brings us to the panoramic summit.
From Cemarovnik we continue slightly left on the marked hiking path, which first gently descends, then begins to turn somewhat to the right. After a few minutes of walking, we join the path from the village Selšček and continue the ascent on a somewhat wider path, which higher up brings us into a somewhat younger or sparser forest. The path ahead steeply ascends for a short time, then brings us to a forest-covered ridge, where another path from Begunje joins from the left (descent option). We continue right on the relatively gentle hiking path, on which in less than 5 minutes of further walking we ascend to the summit of Velika Špička.

Along the route: Goli vrh (Cumarovnik) (816m)

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