Vrzdenec - Kožljek

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Horjul (to here from Dobrova or Vrhnika), and then we continue driving towards Vrzdenec and Gorenja vas. In the first sharp left turn, after the village Vrzdenec, we will notice a narrow asphalt road which branches off to the right from the main road. We then take this road, which after a shorter steep ascent brings us to the church of St. Kancian above Vrzdenec. We park on one of the parking lots near the church.

Route description:
A little further from the church, at the end of the road, we will notice hiking signposts, which direct us to a cart track in the direction of Kožljek (slightly right Koreno). The cart track, which starts ascending by the stream, brings us already after a minute of walking to an unmarked junction.
We continue right on the second cart track (the first to the right is quite overgrown, and the left one vanishes), which immediately after we have crossed the stream turns right and then ascends along its right bank. After a short ascent, the cart track turns sharply left and gradually starts distancing itself from the stream. Further ahead the blazes become more frequent, and the path soon brings us to a marked junction, where we continue right in the direction of Samotorica (left Pri Hlipč). We continue the ascent on the cart track, which higher brings us out of the forest onto panoramic grassy slopes. We continue the ascent on the ever-widening cart track, which past the hunting observatory brings us to the church of St. Michael on Samotorica.
At the church, we step onto the road, which we follow to the right, but only a few steps, as the blazes for Kožljek direct us to the left (straight along the road to Koreno) onto a poorly visible footpath, which after a short ascent brings us to another road. We follow the asphalt road to a smaller saddle, by which we notice a chapel and by it hiking signposts. We continue slightly left in the direction of Kožljek, along a somewhat poorly visible path, which ascends across a panoramic meadow. Higher the path brings us to the edge of the forest, where the blazes direct us right into the dense and in summertime quite overgrown forest. The path through the forest first ascends steeply, then the steepness eases and the path brings us out of the forest onto partly panoramic slopes. We follow this path all the way to the summit, which we reach after a few minutes of further walking.

Along the route: Sveti Mihael na Samotorici (665m)

We recommend: trips from the same starting point, similar trips, panorama