Mače - Srednji vrh (via Kozjek and Cjanovca)

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 place, 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. Continue driving through the underpass under the motorway, then arrive at the roundabout, from which continue driving towards Golnik. The road ahead leads through the settlement of Mlaka pri Kranju, but at the end of the settlement continue right towards the settlement of Srakovlje. Followed by driving through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela to Zgornja Bela, where continue right towards Preddvor. In Preddvor notice the signs for Mače, which direct left past the primary school to the road that climbs 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 approaches the Suha stream a few minutes higher, which it also crosses twice a bit further on. After about 20 minutes we arrive at a marked junction, where the usual path to Kališče continues left, but we continue right towards Srednji vrh, Kališče via Kozjek and Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu via Kozjek. The increasingly poor road brings us a little further to a freight cableway leading towards Dom na Kališču.
The further ascent is somewhat more difficult orientation-wise due to the labyrinth of tracks, but if we carefully follow the markers we cannot go wrong. 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, bringing us after a few minutes of further walking to a marked junction.
Here the path to Kališče branches off to the left, we continue along the right path. After this 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. A few-minute traverse follows, which in the final part runs along a grassy slope, then at the edge of Hudičev boršt we join the somewhat shorter Mačenska pot.
We continue past the spring and then after a minute or two of further walking arrive at Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu.
From the shelter continue eastwards, where we quickly leave Hudičev boršt and arrive at the point where we step out of the forest. On 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 prone to avalanches in winter. The traverse of the grassy slope, which is mainly dangerous for slipping in wet conditions at a few points but otherwise technically undemanding, ends after about 15 minutes and the path brings us into the forest. Another about 15 minutes of traversing through the forest follows, 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...).
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, and we continue along the increasingly steep and in places very scenic path. The path, from which beautiful views open up towards Kočna, Grintovec, Kalški greben and Gorenjska, slowly turns slightly to the left. We follow this increasingly scenic and relatively steep path all the way to the summit of Cjanovca, on which there is a bench and a small cairn.
From Cjanovca continue northwards along the path which descends through a belt of dwarf pines to the saddle between Cjanovca and Srednji vrh. Here we step onto the ridge, which we then follow to Srednji vrh, reaching it after a few minutes of further walking.

Starting point - Studenci 0:25, Studenci - junction into Suha valley 0:35, junction into 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, Cjanovca - Cjanovca saddle 0:05, Cjanovca saddle - Srednji vrh 0:10.

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), Cjanovca (1820m), Sedlo Cjanovca (1802m)

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