Mače - Cjanovca (over Kozjek and on SE ridge)

Access to starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana-Jesenice motorway, take the Kranj-east exit, then continue driving towards Jezersko. When arriving in Preddvor, leave the main road and continue left towards the centre of the mentioned town, from there follow the signs for Mače. When arriving in Mače, at the marked junction continue right (left Bašelj, straight church of St. Nicholas (the church is not accessible by car)) and drive up the narrow road above the village, where there is a large marked parking lot.
b) From the Jesenice-Ljubljana motorway, take the Kranj-west exit and at the first junction continue left. Then drive through the underpass under the motorway, then arrive at a roundabout, from which continue driving towards Golnik. The road ahead leads through the settlement Mlaka pri Kranju, but we at the end of the settlement continue right towards the settlement Srakovlje. This is followed by driving through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela to Zgornja Bela, where we continue right towards Preddvor. In Preddvor notice the signs for Mače, which direct us left past the primary school to the road that ascends to Mače. When arriving in Mače, at the marked junction continue right (left Bašelj, straight church of St. Nicholas (the church is not accessible by car)) and drive up the narrow road above the village, where there is a large marked parking lot.

Route description:
From the parking lot return to the road from which we turned onto the parking lot and continue the ascent towards Kališče. Initially we walk through the forest, the road a few minutes higher approaches the Suha stream, which it also crosses twice a bit further on. After about 20 minutes we reach a marked junction, where the usual path to Kališče continues left, we continue right towards Srednji vrh, Kališče via Kozjek and Shelter in Hudičev boršt via Kozjek. The increasingly poor road soon brings us to a cargo cableway leading towards Dom na Kališču.
The further ascent is somewhat orientationally more difficult due to the maze of tracks, but if we carefully follow the markers, we cannot miss it. Higher up the track turns into a steep footpath, which after some time brings us to the ridge of Kozjek. Here the path levels out and turns left, then after a few minutes of further walking brings us to a marked junction.
Here the path to Kališče branches off left, we continue along the right path. After that we cross a gully and already after a few dozen steps of further walking we reach the next junction, where we continue straight ahead (left Dolga njiva, Cjanovca and Srednji vrh) towards Hudičev boršt. Follows a few-minute traverse, which in the last part runs along a grassy slope, then at the edge of Hudičev boršt we join the somewhat shorter Mačenska path.
We continue past the spring and then after a minute or two of further walking arrive at the Shelter in Hudičev boršt.
From the shelter we continue eastwards, where we quickly leave Hudičev boršt and arrive at the point where we step out of the forest. In the initial section where we step out of the forest, a fixed cable assists in the moderate descent, which continues for a few metres of traversing across a relatively steep slope. The path continues along the fairly steep grassy slope of Zaplate, which is extremely avalanche-prone in winter. The traverse of the grassy slope, which is mainly in wet conditions dangerous for slipping at some points but otherwise technically undemanding, ends after about 15 minutes and the path brings us into the forest. Follows another about 15 minutes of traversing through the forest, then we arrive at a marked junction, where we continue left towards Cjanovca and Srednji vrh (right Javorov vrh, Potoška gora, Spodnja Kokra, sv. Jakob...).
We continue left towards Cjanovca and Srednji vrh along the path which begins to ascend more steeply along and beside the eastern ridge of Cjanovca. Higher up the path brings us out of the forest onto slopes overgrown with dwarf pines, we continue along the increasingly steep and locally very scenic path. The path, from which beautiful views open up to Kočna, Grintovec, Kalški greben and Gorenjska, slowly turns slightly to the left. This increasingly scenic and relatively steep path we follow all the way to the summit of Cjanovca, on which stands a bench and a small cairn.

Starting point - Studenci 0:25, Studenci - junction to Suha valley 0:35, junction to Suha valley - junction on Kozjek 0:50, junction on Kozjek - junction below Dolga njiva 0:05, junction below Dolga njiva - Hudičev boršt 0:15, Hudičev boršt - Skodovnjek 0:30, Skodovnjek - Cjanovca 1:15.

Along the route: Studenci (737m), Spodnja postaja tovorne žičnice (800m), Odcep v dolino Suhe (916m), Greben Kozjeka (1175m), Razpotje Kozjek (1281m), Razpotje pod Dolgo njivo (1282m), Izvir v Hudičevem borštu (1328m), Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu (1328m), Razpotje Skodovnjek (1348m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Srednji vrh

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