Dom Pristava in Javorniški Rovt - Barentaler Kotschna/Struška (via Dobravske rovte)

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice take the exit Lipce and turn right towards Jesenice. In the Slovenski Javornik settlement, at the first semaphorised junction, turn right (direction Lj. ) towards Koroška Bela. At the next traffic-light junction, turn left, and soon turn left again towards Javorníške Rovto. After a few kilometres of uphill driving, when you reach the village, follow the signpost Pristava. This, or Dom Pristava, is located 50 m to the right, above the last bus stop (at the crossroads of Monument nob, or 250 m before the end of the asphalt). Park in the parking lot of the Dom, where you can have a drink on the way back (preferable, but not obligatory).

Path description:
From the starting point in front of the Pristava House, turn right along the path through the short lane of the forest behind the House (Zoisov park), where you will come across a wooden bridge over a stream. On the other side of the bridge, bear right, northwards, across a large pasture with a path leading across it (if it is fenced off, you can go around it on the right). Once you have crossed the pasture, the path descends slightly and crosses two streams at a distance of 50 m. After the second stream, continue straight across the meadow, towards the woods (a brick building on the left). The path takes you through a short lane of woods and descends a little, then leads you back to the meadow, where your gaze stops on Mount Srednica. On the other side of the meadow, we re-enter a short lane of forest, where cart track leads us shortly to a forest road. Step onto it and turn left. The road soon leads over a bridge over the Jezernica stream, where it climbs to Dobravske rovte and turns into cart track. Follow this cart track, which soon turns left at a fork towards Mavry. A little higher up, you will see a left fork, and a little further on, follow the right fork (straight to Mavre), and follow cart track eastwards for a short distance. Shortly after, after passing another left fork, the path turns left and leads to the last fork. Take the left fork (private cottage on the right), where the path ends near the hayloft, and we continue left by the hayloft across the meadow, but not too far. Shortly after the aforementioned cottage, which is seen about 50 m to the right above us, we follow the overgrown hazel (partly spruce) edge descending to the left of the cottage, heading straight up across the meadow, where a barely visible track leads us higher into the forest. Here the path becomes easier to follow again, and in the slope of the mixed forest it turns first left and then right. When the path then leads into a predominantly coniferous forest, it turns left again and leads to a spring (yellow pipe) near the forest road. Shortly afterwards, when you emerge from the forest onto the road, you see a small cottage on the other side of the road, beyond which you find a relatively wide forest path climbing eastwards. Soon you will come to a sharp left fork where you continue straight east. After a while the path veers left, steeper into the hillside to the north, and continues to climb in switchbacks for some time. Higher up, the well-traced path heads west and climbs cross-country. As you pass into the lane of dwarf pines, you come across a pasture fence, and continue along the path, where views open up towards Kahlkogel, Kepa and the Julian Mountains. Soon the path leads us in 2-3 detours to the shepherd's hut at Belska mountain pasture.
From the hut, continue past the fenced water reservoir, where you will come across a marked trail, which you follow for only a short time. As you approach the first valley or ravine, follow it up northwards, where you will encounter parts of the path higher up. When you emerge from the ravine, head slightly right uphill on partly rocky terrain. When the steepness eases briefly, bear slightly right again up the south-west slope of Barentaler Kotschna, passing a slightly wider valley (gully) on our right. The path becomes more obvious, and takes us through dwarf pines to a small basin, where we turn left to the border ridge (here we get a view of Austria). From here we continue right along the edge (border), all the way to the top of Barentaler Kotschna, which is only a few 10 m higher. At the top you will come across a large boundary stone with a registration box.

On the way: Belska planina (Svečica) (1700m)

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