Urbas - Weinasch/Vajnež

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, we take the exit Lesce and follow the road ahead in the direction of Žirovnica and Jesenice. After a few km of driving, we will come to a crossroads, where the road to Žirovnica and Moste branches off to the right (from the direction of Jesenice, left). Only a few meters ahead, at the next crossroads, we turn left to Moste (right Žirovnica). Further on, we drive past the monument to the fallen fighters, where the road starts to rise on a slope under the railway track. At the top of the slope, the road to the right is at the sign for Vila Karin, but we continue straight towards Završniško jezero and Valvasorjev dom. The road then flattens and brings us to a crossroads, where the road to Valvasorjev dom branches off to the left. We take the mentioned road (straight to Koča pri izviru Završnice), which first ascends gently, then steeper and steeper on an occasionally quite rough road (the steepest parts are asphalted). Higher up, the road brings us to a somewhat larger crossroads, where we continue left towards Potoška planina (right Doslovška planina). The road then flattens and a little further brings us to the next crossroads, where the road to Valvasorjev dom branches off to the right, and we continue on the left lower road, which then continues for quite some time without major changes in elevation. The road then leads us past the turn-off to Ajdno and then starts to ascend steeper on an occasionally quite poor road. The road then flattens again and past Potoška planina brings us to the Urbas spring, near which there are a few smaller parking spots.
From Moste to the starting point there is approximately 10 km of driving.

Route description:
From the parking lot we first walk to the Urbas spring, where we notice the mountain sign for mountain pasture Belščica, which directs us onto an initially somewhat harder-to-follow footpath. For the first 15 minutes of walking the path ascends only gently, then it starts to ascend steeply through the forest. Higher the forest becomes thinner and slowly transitions into a belt of dwarf pines, and the path starts turning more and more towards the west. After a good hour of walking we step onto grassy slopes and the path after a few additional steps brings us to the bivouac on Belščica (emergency bivouac).
From the bivouac we continue towards the north and already after a few steps we notice a somewhat less visible little path that turns sharply right (direction east). Further we ascend along the mentioned little path, which ascends transversely across occasionally somewhat steeper slopes. The path, which crosses two more pronounced gullies, then brings us higher to a marked path, which we follow to the right, but only to the spot where the sign for Vajnež directs us left upwards.
Here we again leave the marked path, along which we walked only a few meters, and continue the ascent along a barely visible little path that after a short ascent brings us to the edge of the main ridge of the Karavanke. We then follow this path, which gradually transitions into easier pathless terrain, to the panoramic summit.
In fog the orientation in the upper part is very difficult.
Urbas - bivouac on Belščica 1:15, bivouac on Belščica - Vajnež 1:10.

Along the route: Bivak na Belščici (1750m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Hochstuhl/Stol

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