Planina pod Golico - Barentaler Kotschna/Struška

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway, take the Lipce exit (also Hrušica) and follow the road ahead towards Jesenice, where signs for Planina pod Golico direct us onto an ascending road (the turn-off is marked and located at the health center in Jesenice). The relatively steep road soon brings us to the mentioned village, where in May we can admire the blooming of daffodils on the surrounding meadows. From Planina pod Golico we drive on to the next intersection, where we notice numerous hiking signposts. Here we continue right and drive another good 50 m to the parking lot below the Savske jame.

Route description:
From the parking lot we continue on the lower road in the direction of Golica and the sledding track of Savske jame. After 10 minutes the sledding track turns left steeply upwards, but we continue on the wide road, which still moderately ascends along the stream. A little further we come to an intersection, where we continue straight (between both roads) in the direction of Golica. Further we ascend on a worse, quite overgrown cart track, which after 15 minutes of moderate ascent brings us to a macadam road, which we only cross. Next follows crossing of a grazing fence and the path brings us to the grassy slopes of Markljev rovt.
From Markljev rovt we continue slightly right (slightly left Golica) on a footpath which slightly ascends along the riverbed of a torrent. Higher the path becomes somewhat steeper, crosses the mentioned torrent and then turns right, where after a few minutes of further walking it joins the road from Pusti rovt.
We follow the road to the left, but only to a junction, where signs for Struška direct us right (left Golica). Just a few steps ahead we step on a newer forest road which we follow right (straight old path). This road, which first runs through the forest, higher over an avalanche slope, we follow all the way to Belska planina (Svečice) from which a beautiful view opens up.
From the mountain pasture we continue towards the east initially only slightly upwards. After five minutes of walking from the hut the path brings us to a less steep gully, where we continue left on a poorly visible unmarked path (straight planina Seča).
Further we ascend on a grass-covered gully surrounded by dwarf pines. The still hard-to-follow little path at the top of this gully turns right into the expansive world of Struška. The path ahead in moderate ascent crosses the southwestern slopes of Struška, which are partly covered with dwarf pines (because the path is hard to follow we can quickly stray into the dwarf pines). A little below the summit the "path" brings us to the ridge which we follow to the summit.
Orientation from the mountain pasture to the summit is somewhat harder, and in fog very difficult.

Along the route: Markljev Rovt (1250m), Belska planina (Svečica) (1700m)

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