Podmeja - Planinski dom Vrhe

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Celje, take the exit Šempeter and continue driving towards Prebold and later Trbovlje. We then follow the serpentine road to the Podmeja pass, where on the parking lot near the hunting lodge we also park.
B) From Zasavje we first drive to Trbovlje, then continue driving towards Prebold. When we come to the Podmeja pass, we park on the parking lot near the hunting lodge.

Route description:
From the Podmeja pass, we head west on a poor macadam road towards Sveta planina. After a few dozen steps, we leave the road and continue on a cart track, which gently ascends through the forest. Higher up, the cart track flattens out completely and gradually passes from an indistinct ridge to the shady side. Here, the marked cart track turns sharply right (poorly marked) and begins to descend noticeably. At the end of the descent, we step onto a wide cart track, along which we walk a few steps to the asphalt road, which we follow to the right. Further on, with a view of Kum and ascending past a few houses, we climb to a signposted junction, where we continue in the direction "Sveta planina - pešpot (footpath)" (right: Sveta planina access by car).
Further on, we ascend for quite some time along a gently sloping macadam road, after which we reach a small hamlet, where we continue sharply right and then immediately behind the house left onto an ascending cart track. The cart track first leads us across grassy hayfields, higher up it even descends slightly for a short time, and then takes us into dense forest, where it begins to ascend more steeply. Higher up, the path turns left and after a few dozen steps of further walking brings us to a shrine beside which stands a lonely house. Behind the house, the path widens again and leads us past a water trough to expansive grassy slopes north of Sveta planina.
Here, the path to Javor branches off to the right; we continue along the road to the nearby junction. At the junction, we continue right (left: Sveta planina 5 minutes) and proceed along the road, which descends transversely across initially still panoramic slopes. The road then enters the forest and brings us to a junction, where we continue right towards Planinski dom Vrhe. Continuing, we cross the slopes of peak Javor on the left side, then arrive at a junction in the middle of which stands the NOB monument. Here we continue straight ahead and past the church of St. Lenart walk in a few minutes to Planinski dom Vrhe.

Along the route: Sveta planina / Partizanski vrh (1011m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Koča na Čemšeniški planini (1 h 45 min), Javor, Črni vrh (Čemšeniška planina) (1 h 30 min)

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