Radoboj - Sušec (Strahinjščica)

Access to starting point:
We leave the highway Macelj-Zagreb at the exit Krapina and then drive further in the direction of Varaždin-Radoboj. When we come to the next intersection, left is the direction Krapina, right the direction Krapinske Toplice, but we go straight to Radoboj (the direction is not marked).
The road then leads us through Velika Vas and Jazvine, then it starts to ascend and brings us to Radoboj. We leave the car in the center of the settlement, if it is occupied then a little lower by the sports field of NK Radoboj.

Route description:
From the center of Radoboj we go north. Orientation is easy, because this is the only road that goes upwards. Soon we come to a smaller roundabout, where signs and tourist boards help us. We continue on the road that starts to descend slightly, and the path also leads us past the hunting lodge, which during the time of writing the description was still under construction. The first part of the path, where we walk, is not marked, but it is almost impossible to miss if we stick to the asphalt road.
When we come to the village Kamenečki, the path turns right, a little further the asphalt ends and we continue on a cart track into the forest.
The path further ascends more steeply along the forest cart track, where the path leads us past some water supply structures. The steepness then gradually eases, and the path leads us across an area where it is usually quite muddy. Along such a path we arrive at the saddle Plat, where there is a junction.
At the junction we go right, where we cross to a meadow by which a hunting observatory stands. The path quickly returns to the forest and becomes quite steep, the surface increasingly rocky. Further we go past a shelter where we can rest, just a minute higher we reach the pass between the peak Sekolje and the summit ridge of Strahinjščica, where there is the next junction.
Straight downhill the path leads to Gornje Jesenje, right the path ascends to the peak Sekolje, we go left.
From here the path becomes very steep and leads us along the ridge, where it temporarily also becomes more rocky and especially when wet dangerous for slipping, so on this section a steel cable would be useful, but there is none. Higher the ridge flattens and brings us to a place that used to have a nice viewpoint, but today the forest is increasingly overgrowing it.
We continue along the northern ridge of Strahinjščica, where we cross another section where a steel cable would be helpful. Further the path from the ridge passes to the southern slope, where we soon arrive at the forest cart track.
On the cart track we walk only some 10 meters, then we go left onto the footpath. There follows some easy walking through less dense forest, after crossing another cart track the path temporarily ascends steeply again. When the path flattens, only about a minute of walking separates us from the summit.
Since the summit is in the forest, to get the view we need to continue another twenty minutes ahead in the direction of the mountain hut, to the wall Dedek.
I do not recommend the path after rain.

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