Dom na Gospincu - Kalški greben (via Dolga Njiva)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway, take the Vodice exit, then continue driving to the first signalized intersection in Vodice, where you continue left in the direction of Cerklje na Gorenjskem and Brnik. When you reach the main roundabout in Spodnji Brnik, continue driving in the direction of Cerklje and the Krvavec ski resort. At the end of the settlement Cerklje na Gorenjskem, leave the main road which continues towards Velesovo and Visoko and continue driving slightly right onto the road in the direction of the Krvavec ski resort. Park on the large well-maintained parking lot by the bottom station of the circular-cabin cable car on Krvavec, where you buy a ticket and take the aforementioned cable car to the upper station, which is located by the mountain hut Dom na Gospincu.
B) From the Jesenice - Ljubljana highway, take the Kranj - east exit, then continue driving towards Brnik, Komenda and Mengeš. When you reach the main roundabout in Spodnji Brnik, continue driving in the direction of Cerklje and the Krvavec ski resort. At the end of the settlement Cerklje na Gorenjskem, leave the main road which continues towards Velesovo and Visoko and continue driving slightly right onto the road in the direction of the Krvavec ski resort. Park on the large well-maintained parking lot by the bottom station of the circular-cabin cable car on Krvavec, where you buy a ticket and take the aforementioned cable car to the upper station, which is located by the mountain hut Dom na Gospincu.
C) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway, take the Vodice exit, then continue driving to the first signalized intersection in Vodice, where you continue left in the direction of Cerklje na Gorenjskem and Brnik. When you reach the main roundabout in Spodnji Brnik, continue driving in the direction of Cerklje and the Krvavec ski resort. At the end of the settlement Cerklje na Gorenjskem, leave the main road which continues towards Velesovo and Visoko and continue driving slightly right onto the road in the direction of the Krvavec ski resort. Further on, you reach the village Grad, where signs for the settlement Ambrož pod Krvavcem direct you right onto a steep asphalt road (straight ahead to the bottom station of the circular-cabin cable car on Krvavec and Štefanja Gora). When the steepness on the steep road eases somewhat, you will reach an intersection, where you continue left in the direction of the settlement Ambrož pod Krvavcem (straight ahead to the settlements Ravne, Apno and Šenturška Gora). A little further, the road temporarily descends somewhat, then ascends through occasionally quite panoramic slopes. Higher up, you reach Ambrož pod Krvavcem, where you bypass the church of St. Ambrož and the tourist farm Pr Ambružarju on the left side. From the tourist farm onwards, the road enters the forest and ascends through it all the way to the mountain pasture Jezerca, where there is a large well-maintained parking lot. Here the road flattens and turns left; about 500 m further it brings you to an intersection, where you continue slightly left (right to Kriška planina). On the macadam road, you then drive a little further to the upper station of the circular-cabin cable car.
The road from the mountain pasture Jezerca to Dom na Gospincu is now closed to public traffic; this extends the path by approximately 30 minutes.
D) From the Jesenice - Ljubljana highway, take the Kranj - east exit, then continue driving towards Brnik, Komenda and Mengeš. When you reach the main roundabout in Spodnji Brnik, continue driving in the direction of Cerklje and the Krvavec ski resort. At the end of the settlement Cerklje na Gorenjskem, leave the main road which continues towards Velesovo and Visoko and continue driving slightly right onto the road in the direction of the Krvavec ski resort. Further on, you reach the village Grad, where signs for the settlement Ambrož pod Krvavcem direct you right onto a steep asphalt road (straight ahead to the bottom station of the circular-cabin cable car on Krvavec and Štefanja Gora). When the steepness on the steep road eases somewhat, you will reach an intersection, where you continue left in the direction of the settlement Ambrož pod Krvavcem (straight ahead to the settlements Ravne, Apno and Šenturška Gora). A little further, the road temporarily descends somewhat, then ascends through occasionally quite panoramic slopes. Higher up, you reach Ambrož pod Krvavcem, where you bypass the church of St. Ambrož and the tourist farm Pr Ambružarju on the left side. From the tourist farm onwards, the road enters the forest and ascends through it all the way to the mountain pasture Jezerca, where there is a large well-maintained parking lot. Here the road flattens and turns left; about 500 m further it brings you to an intersection, where you continue slightly left (right to Kriška planina). On the macadam road, you then drive a little further to the upper station of the circular-cabin cable car.
The road from the mountain pasture Jezerca to Dom na Gospincu is now closed to public traffic; this extends the path by approximately 30 minutes.

Route description:
At the upper station of the circular cabin cable car on Krvavec we will notice numerous mountain signposts. We head in the direction of the mountain hut Dom na Krvavcu and Marija Snežna on a poorly visible path that ascends almost straight up the grassy slope. The poorly visible path higher up leads across a pasture fence, behind which it becomes somewhat more traceable. The relatively steep path then brings us to the mountain hut Dom na Krvavcu, which we can already see from the upper cable car station (alternatively possible via a poorer macadam road to here).
From the hut, we continue in the direction of Zvoh along the road that takes us past the chapel and transmitters on Krvavec to the Razor saddle (saddle between the Krvavec peak and Veliki Zvoh), where there is a road junction. We continue straight along the ridge (right to Krvavec peak 5 minutes) to the next junction, where signs for Dolga njiva direct us left (straight to Veliki Zvoh). The path to Dolga njiva then crosses a ski slope and brings us to a slope that is partly overgrown with dwarf pines. The traversing path after some time leaves the Krvavec ski resort area through a wire fence. Further on, the path begins to descend first through dwarf pines, then traverses across some smaller and partly overgrown screes. The path then stops descending and the path from Kokra (via Lojtra) joins us from the left. A few more steps of walking follow and the path brings us to the old shepherd's hut on the mountain pasture Dolga njiva.
From the mentioned hut, we continue along the left side of the pasture on a poorly visible trail that after 5 minutes of further walking brings us to the other, renovated hut. Again, we keep slightly left and the still poorly visible path soon brings us into a belt of dwarf pines, where it becomes more pronounced. This is followed by traversing a short steep scree slope, then a gentle path brings us in a few minutes of pleasant walking across meadows overgrown with dwarf pines to the junction at Škrbina.
Here we continue left in the direction of Kalški greben and Cojzova koča along the path that after just a few more steps brings us to the next junction. We continue slightly left (right to Kalška gora and Cojzova koča) along the path that begins to ascend gently on increasingly panoramic slopes. The pleasant path, which can be very hot in the middle of the day, first leads near a smaller ridge, then gradually turns somewhat more to the left and brings us from the dwarf pines onto wonderful meadows where we will find various types of flowers. The wide slope along which we walk then narrows, and the meadows are gradually replaced by rocks. Higher up, the path brings us to the panoramic main ridge, which we then follow to the summit, which is often full of sheep droppings.
Dom na Gospincu - Dolga njiva 1:35, Dolga njiva - Kalški greben 1:45.

Along the route: Dom na Krvavcu mountain hut (1684m), Razor (1809m), Planina Dolga njiva (Krvavec) (1688m), Škrbina (1870m)

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