Blečji vrh - Gradišče (via Kucelj)

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Novo mesto we go to the exit hotel Grosuplje (not the exit Grosuplje and Šmarje - Sap) and we follow the road ahead in the direction of the village Polica. In the mentioned village, we continue driving in the direction of the village Blečji vrh. Above the village Blečji vrh we get to a smaller crossroad, where we leave the asphalt road and we continue straight on a marked macadam road by which we then park.
To Polica we can also come from the Višnjegorska direction.

Route description:
From the starting point, we continue on the macadam road by which we've parked. Already after a few steps of walking along the road we notice a sign that we are entering the bear area. After a few minutes of gentle walking we get to a junction, where we continue the ascent slightly left, still on the macadam road (straight path Pot dveh slapov). The road then starts ascending steeper and quickly brings us to the next poorly marked junction, where we continue on the left marked road.
Further ahead the road descends a little, crosses a torrent stream and after it steeply ascends. At the next junction by which we notice another sign that we are in a bear area, we continue right. The road, which occasionally ascends quite steeply, after approximately 40 minutes of walking comes out of the forest, where on the left side we notice a bigger cross. We continue straight on an increasingly poor road which changes into a cart track and in a few additional steps of easy walking brings us to the summit of Kucelj which we recognize by a smaller geodetic tower.
From the top of Kucelj, we continue slightly right on at first somewhat poorly visible path by which we soon notice signs (path Pot dveh slapov), which direct us right downward into the forest. The path, which runs along a cart track, soon exits the forest onto a somewhat larger clearing, then returns to the forest. Lower, we step onto an asphalt road along which we descend to the junction in the village Gornje Brezovo.
At the junction we continue sharply left on the marked road which we then follow for just over 100 meters to the spot where on the road we notice a mark that directs us right onto a cart track that starts gently ascending across grassy meadows. The cart track slowly turns to the left, then turns sharply right and gradually changes into an at first poorly visible footpath. The path then turns a little more to the right and further steeply ascends along the right side of the grassy slope. Higher the path crosses a short strip of forest and only a few steps further brings us to the summit where a large cross stands and beneath it a bench.

Along the route: Kucelj (748m)

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