Srednji Vrh - Murnovc (via Grajšca)

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, we take the exit Jesenice - west (Hrušica) and continue driving in the direction of Kranjska Gora. When we arrive in Gozd-Martuljek, we turn right in the direction of Srednji Vrh and drive on a narrow and steep road to the mentioned settlement. When the road flattens a little, we will come to a crossroad of several roads and a turning point. Here we park in an appropriate place by the crossroad.

Route description:
From the turning point on Srednji Vrh, we continue towards the north, where we immediately arrive at a smaller crossroad. From the crossroad, we continue on the lower right road, which is closed to public traffic by a traffic sign. The road first slightly descends, then starts gently ascending past a few houses, after which the asphalt ends. On two successive smaller crossroads, which are situated only a little above the village, we continue left, then for quite some time we continue on a slightly ascending road, which crosses a larger number of torrents, gullies and streams. In the lower part of the path, we also get some views on the Martuljek mountain group, then the road passes into the forest. During the first hour of walking, the road ascends gently to moderately, then it flattens and even descends a little a few times. In the last part of the ascent on the road, the forest thins and the path brings us to the hunting cottage Hladnik, which is situated in the middle of a larger meadow.
Behind the hunting cottage we continue left, and the path immediately brings us to an unmarked junction. Here we continue right into the forest and further ascend on a relatively steep cart track. A little higher we arrive at the next junction of cart tracks, where we continue on the right one, which further ascends diagonally towards the right. The mentioned cart track soon entirely flattens and brings us to a smaller valley, where we cross the stream Hladnik. Immediately after the stream we turn left and for some time moderately ascend beside it, then the path passes into a dense forest, where it starts to ascend steeply. When after good 15 minutes of steep ascent the trail brings us out of the forest, it flattens and slowly starts to disappear on the grassy slopes of Grajšce. On some spots the poorly visible path, which runs on or along the valley, higher leads us past a watering place for animals, and the valley splits into two parts only a little above the mentioned watering place.
We continue on the left considerably longer and gentler valley, which slowly turns more and more to the left. Here we will be able to, if we are quiet enough and have a little luck, notice some marmot. In the middle of the upper part of Grajšce a passage towards the border ridge branches off to the right, we continue straight and through the ever narrower valley start ascending through a sparse larch forest. Higher the valley narrows into a torrent gully, through which we ascend to a smaller saddle northwest of Murnovc.
Here the path to Maloško Poldne and Ostra peč branches off to the right, straight continues the path towards Trupejevo poldne, and we continue left on easier pathless terrain. When we leave the trail which leads to Trupejevo poldne, we head left into a somewhat sparser coniferous forest, through which we start first moderately, higher more steeply ascending. This "path", which higher brings us to the ridge of Murnovc and consequently also out of the forest, we follow all the way to the already mentioned summit, which we reach after approximately 15 minutes of ascent on pathless terrain.

Along the route: Lovska koča Hladnik (1280m), Grajšca (1675m)

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