Škofja Loka (Najdihojca) - Lubnik (eastern outside corner)

Access to starting point:
We drive to Škofja Loka and further to Podlubnik. We park on a small parking lot below the kindergarten Najdihojca.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we head to a small bridge a few meters away over the Selška Sora, which we cross, and right behind the bridge we turn right onto a footpath that leads along the riverbed. We are in the area named Vincarje. On our left, we first have a meadow and then a field, and soon we spot a small hydropower plant on the opposite bank of the Sora, past which we go. We continue walking on the footpath and later on a wider path along the riverbed until we see on a tree by the path on the right side a signpost for Lubnik already quite "embraced" by bark, which directs us uphill to the left. We go straight. When we reach the Veštrski most bridge, we do not cross it; we turn left and follow this road, walking along the upper side of the road until it descends. Then we turn steeply uphill; the road narrows into a footpath. The path goes past a cave with a water source; we reach a meadow (ATTENTION!! Here in summer it is very overgrown, dense as in some jungle, so slowly and carefully until the meadow opens up!). When we cross the meadow, we turn left onto a macadam road, make one bend, and go toward Praprotna, straight ahead. We take a few steps; when the road begins to descend steeply, we turn left onto a poorly visible footpath, immediately after a shorter ascent steeply right uphill onto pathless terrain. We cross the road; the path is somewhat visible here. This is where the extremely steep ascent begins. We ascend until we pass the boulders and cross the road twice. Now we are at 650 m elevation, and the path climbs to the last road at 773 m. Immediately thereafter follows an even harder section; we clamber over boulders, bypassing some of them. After this section, at around 815 m elevation, a small path crosses the pathless terrain. We follow it to the left. We cross an indistinct slippery torrent whose bed is covered with leaves and which at first glance does not even look like a torrent. After this comes the harder part. The ledges are nicely routed, aided by a steel cable (a slip is deadly). When the steel cable ends, we head straight into the rocks. We clamber over smaller rocks; the terrain becomes ever steeper; smaller rocks slightly higher are replaced by boulders. We go directly over the boulder, II grade 8 m. Then we ridge-walk a bit over rocks and clamber a little over larger boulders; the boulders gradually disappear. We arrive directly below the hut, spotting boulders below the hut and a smaller cave. We go straight through the nettles and emerge at the chapel. A few steps and we are already at the top of Lubnik. It probably goes without saying that the path is only for the experienced; all the traverses, climbing over and among boulders is in my opinion good II to II+ unless we make it even harder. The gullies are also very nasty, slippery, and extremely dangerous for slipping, which can end fatally. The path is already steep and exposed from the start, from Soteska. Already there it begins at II grade. Higher up, after the traverse with steel cables, it is all even steeper, rocky, and exposed. In the lower part, the boulders can be bypassed; in the upper part, they must be climbed. ONLY FOR THE EXPERIENCED WHO HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH ORIENTATION AND VERY SLIPPERY, STEEP TERRAIN!!

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