Kočevje - Fridrihštajn Castle (climbing way)

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Kočevje, and then we look for Podgorska ulica (which branches off to the right from the main road - direction of travel towards Delnice). At the end of the mentioned street, we will notice the mountaineering signposts and next to them a nicely arranged parking lot.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we walk to a well-marked junction, and then we continue left in the direction of Grajska pot (right Kalanova pot). At first, we bypass a house, and then the path turns to the left and ascends diagonally across a grassy slope. The path then goes into the forest, where it continues in a moderate ascent on a relatively wide cart track. Higher, the cart track crosses a forest road and gradually turns into a somewhat steeper footpath. The well-marked path higher up crosses the road a few more times and then brings us to a junction, where we continue slightly left in the direction towards Livoldski vrh and castle Fridrihštajn (right Mestni vrh and mountain hut Koča pri Jelenovem studencu). The still well-marked path higher up crosses a road (left Livoldski vrh) and a little further on splits into two parts. We continue right in the direction of Fridrihštajnska stena (left the usual path) along the path that soon brings us to the start of the climbing section of the path (here a marked path branches off to the right towards Požgani hrib).
The well-secured path first crosses an exposed ledge, then turns left and ascends vertically upwards. With the help of numerous brackets and steel cables, we ascend one level higher, then the path turns to the right, where it crosses an otherwise secured but very exposed ledge. The path then turns to the left once again and brings us in a moderate ascent after a few more steps to the summit.

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