Ciganija - Uršlja gora (Plešivec) (winter way)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Šoštanj (to here from Velenje or the Savinja Valley), then we continue driving towards Črna na Koroškem. Further on, the road starts ascending towards the mountain pass Spodnje Sleme (1081 m), which after a few kilometers of winding road we also reach. Here the road branches off to the left towards Andrejev dom na Slemenu, and we continue driving towards Črna na Koroškem. From the mountain pass onwards we drive a few 100 meters more, then signs for Uršlja gora direct us to the right onto an ascending road which a little higher loses the asphalt covering. We continue on a wider macadam road (the road is in winter usually cleared of snow and gritted), and we follow it approximately 1500 meters, or to the crossroad, where a worse macadam road branches off to the right towards Križan and Uršlja gora (by the crossroad there are numerous hiking signposts and a cross). We park on an appropriate place by the road.
B) First, we drive to Črna na Koroškem, and from there we continue driving towards Šoštanj and Velenje. Still before we arrive at the mountain pass Spodnje Sleme, signs for Uršlja gora direct us sharply to the left onto an ascending and further wider macadam road (the turn-off from the main road is located a few 100 meters before the mentioned mountain pass, and above the crossroad we also notice a larger chapel). We continue on a wider macadam road (the road is in winter usually cleared of snow and gritted), and we follow it approximately 1500 meters, or to the crossroad, where a worse macadam road branches off to the right towards Križan and Uršlja gora (by the crossroad there are numerous hiking signposts and a cross). We park on an appropriate place by the road.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the right road in the direction of Uršlja gora and Naravske ledine. The road goes immediately into the forest, where it then continues without major changes in altitude to the saddle between Kotnikov vrh and Kavnikov vrh. We continue further in the direction of Uršlja gora on the road, which from here starts to descend more steeply. The road then flattens and after approximately 45 minutes of walking from the starting point brings us to a somewhat larger crossroad at the farm Križan.
We continue straight upwards on the footpath in the direction of Uršlja gora (left further on the road to Naravske ledine). The path ahead ascends through a belt of forest, after which we come to expansive and scenic grassy slopes along which we ascend past the chapel to the road that leads to Uršlja gora.
We only cross the mentioned road as the marked path leads us into the forest. The path ahead starts to ascend more steeply and after a few minutes of further walking brings us to a junction, where we continue right in the direction of the winter path (slightly left the normal path). The path then quickly brings us to a cart track along which in a traverse ascent we ascend to the road that leads to Uršlja gora. We reach the road right at the place where the summer parking lot is located. We continue the ascent past the barrier on the road, which ascends relatively steeply at first through the forest. We follow this road, from which increasingly beautiful views open up, to the hut on Uršlja gora.
From the hut, we continue past the church on a pleasant footpath which after a good 5 minutes of further walking brings us to the panoramic summit on which a large cross stands.

Along the route: Križan (1040m), Šišernik (1259m), Dom na Uršlji gori (1680m)

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