Matizovec - Toplar

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we take the exit Ljubelj and follow the road ahead towards the border crossing. We leave the main road at the spot where the signs for »camp and Podljubelj« direct us to the right. When we leave the main road, we will already after a few meters arrive at a crossroad, where we continue left in the direction of »Kofce«. Further on, we drive through the village on a slightly ascending road and then turn right in the direction of »Matizovec and Kofce«. We then follow this occasionally somewhat narrower road, which is asphalted in the lower part, to a larger marked parking lot, about 150 elevation meters below the farm Matizovec.

Route description:
From the large free parking lot we continue on a macadam road, on which in approximately 20 minutes we arrive at the farm Matizovec.
From Matizovec we continue on a rougher road in the direction of Dom na Kofcah, and at several successive junctions we carefully follow the blazes. After a few minutes of walking on the rougher road or cart track, the blazes direct us onto a steep footpath, which first ascends diagonally to the left and then transitions to a forested ridge, where it turns slightly to the right. Further, we ascend on a steep mountain path, which higher crosses a cart track and behind it gradually flattens. Only a little further, the forest thins out, the marked path turns right into the forest and a little higher joins the cart track, which ascends diagonally to the right. The cart track higher turns to the left, and from the right the marked path from Kal also joins.
From the junction ahead the forest ends, and the increasingly scenic path in 5 minutes of additional walking brings us to the Dom na Kofcah.
From the mountain hut we continue in the direction of Veliki vrh and Kladivo on an initially somewhat poorly visible path, which starts to ascend across a panoramic meadow. After 15 minutes of walking from the Dom na Kofcah we arrive at a nice viewpoint at the cross.
The path then descends slightly and in a few minutes brings us to the steeper slopes of Košuta. The path then ascends through a belt of dwarf pines, bringing us to a junction. We continue straight ahead (right: Kladivo and Kofce gora) on the path which ascends diagonally across increasingly steep slopes. The path, which continues on an unvegetated slope, soon brings us to a short steep section, where a steel cable assists (undemanding). Once we pass this section, the path turns slightly to the left and continues relatively steeply ascending across a grassy slope. The increasingly scenic path then brings us into a small valley, through which we ascend almost to the border ridge, where the ridge path joins from the right. The path then from the valley again transitions to the southern slopes, where it bypasses the peak »Toplar (2000m)« on the south side. Right at this spot we leave the marked path leading to Veliki vrh and head right into pathless terrain. After three minutes of steep but undemanding ascent on pathless terrain we step onto Toplar.
Starting point - Matizovec 20 minutes, Matizovec - Kofce 1:15, Kofce - Toplar 1:30.

Along the route: Matizovec (1072m), Dom na Kofcah mountain hut (1488m)

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