Mače - Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu (via Kozjek)

Access to starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Kranj - east exit, then continue driving towards Jezersko. When we arrive in Preddvor, leave the main road and continue left towards the centre of the mentioned place, from there follow the signs for Mače. When we arrive 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 larger 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 route ahead leads through the settlement of Mlaka pri Kranju, we at the end of the settlement continue right towards the settlement of 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 climbs to Mače. When we arrive 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 larger 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 arrive at a marked junction, where the usual path towards Kališče continues left, 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 that leads towards Dom na Kališču.
The further ascent is somewhat more difficult orientationally due to the maze 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, then after a few minutes of further walking brings us to a marked junction.
Here the path to Kališče branches off to the 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. A few-minute traverse follows, which in the last section runs along the grassy slope, then at the edge of Hudičev boršt we join the somewhat shorter Mačenska path.
Continue past the spring and then after one or two minutes of further walking arrive at Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu.

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.

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)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Javorov vrh, Dom na Kališču, Planina Dolga njiva ( 45 min), Bašeljski vrh, Mali Grintovec (1 h 30 min), Cjanovca, Srednji vrh, Storžič

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