Gozd Martuljek - Kurji vrh

Access to starting point:
From Mojstrana we drive towards Kranjska Gora or vice versa, but only to the village Gozd Martuljek, where we park on a parking lot near the bridge over the river Sava Dolinka (parking lot is located after the bridge, or before, if we come from Kranjska Gora).

Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue by the main road towards Kranjska Gora, but only to a spot where a cycling road branches off to the left (by the beginning of the cycling path there are also signposts, which point us on the mentioned road). We follow the cycling road to the first crossroad, where we continue straight on a macadam road (cycling road turns right), which quickly brings us to the next crossroad.
We continue right and follow the road closed to traffic to the TNP sign. Further, the path splits into two parts. We continue straight upwards on a steep cart track which is ascending on the right side of the Martuljška soteska gorge. The cart track, which is mostly ascending through the forest, after 15 minutes brings us to a nice vantage point, where a view opens up towards the valley. The path then goes again into the forest and continues to ascend. A little further from the left joins the path from the waterfall, and a little further, the path towards the bivouac pod Špikom branches off to the right.
We head onto this path, which at first ascends gently on a cart track. The wide path on which we are ascending then leads us past the rock with the caption "pod Špik". Only 5 minutes after this rock we leave the marked path which leads to the bivouac pod Špikom. At the spot where we notice a few smaller cairns, an unmarked cart track branches off to the right, which slightly descends and thereby crosses a small spring. The cart track, which then starts to ascend, soon has two successive junctions. In both cases we continue straight and follow it a little higher to the next junction, where we continue left upwards (on a tree we notice an unofficial marking and an arrow to the left). Further we ascend on an unmarked and wide path, which higher brings us to the next orientational loop. At the spot where the path approaches a wide cart track we again notice unofficial markings, which direct us left upwards onto a steep forest path (orientation further on is substantially easier). After 15 minutes the steepness eases a little and the path brings us out of the forest to the edge of a torrent gully, along which we then ascend. A little higher the footpath turns right and takes us back into the forest, where after a short descent we come to a pleasant spring, which we cross just a few meters below its source. The path then again starts to ascend steeply, and the forest is soon replaced by dwarf pines. The increasingly scenic path then brings us higher between two boulders, where there is a smaller junction (on the right boulder the marking PP, path Planica - Pokljuka).
We continue right on the lower path (left Rušica and Rigljica, it is also possible to Kurji vrh but the path is in the upper part quite overgrown with dwarf pines), which crosses the slopes of Kurji vrh. The path, which ascends moderately, crosses several steep grassy slopes which in wet are dangerous for slipping, in dry however the ascent does not present greater danger. When the path goes from the western to the northern slopes we come to a junction, where we continue on the left upper path, which starts to ascend steeply along the edge of shorter cliffs. We follow this steep path, on which the steepness in the last part eases a little, to Kurji vrh.
The logbook box is on the forepeak, as the summit is overgrown with dwarf pines and therefore difficult to access.

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Rigljica (2 h)

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