Spodnja Kokra - Storžič

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice take the exit Kranj - East and follow the road towards Jezersko. Just a few kilometres after the Preddvor off-ramp, you will see a transformer on the right-hand side of the road and a parking lot next to it. There are also signs for the Čemšenik Home.

Path description:
From the parking lot, first cross the road carefully and then follow the footpath towards the Čemšenik home. The wide path ascends only significantly to the Polajnar homestead, where you step out onto the road and follow it to the right.
The road climbs steeply just after the house, but it loses its asphalt coating a little higher up. The road then flattens out and turns slightly to the left, where it approaches the Čemšeniškės brook. Cross the stream a little further on and just after it you will come to a marked crossroads, where you continue along the left-hand road in the direction of the Čemšenik home. The road then starts to climb steeply again and after about 30 minutes of further walking leads us to the Čemšenik home.
From the Čemšenik home, continue in the direction of Javorov vrh (on the Javorjev vrh sign) along the path, which goes into the forest after only a few metres. Initially moderately steep, the path soon leads to a torrential gully, along which it then climbs for some time. Higher up, the path turns to the right and climbs even steeper. Follow this relatively steep path, which passes through dense forest, all the way to the crossroads at the saddle between Potoška gora on the left and Javorov vrh on the right.
Continue right (Potoška gora and Sveti Jakob on the left) along a moderately steep path which, after a short climb, leads to the south-west ridge of Javorov vrh, which offers some views towards Cjanovca. The trail goes just a little further into the dense forest again, where we arrive at the next well-marked crossroads.
Here we continue left in the direction of Srednji vrh, Kališča and Storžič (straight Javorov vrh for 15 minutes) along a path which, after a few further steps, leads us to a pleasant little well. This is followed by a half-hour crossing of the slopes below Javorov vrh, ending at the saddle between the above-mentioned peak and Cjanovca.
At the saddle, the path from Javorov vrh joins us, and we continue to the left in the direction of Hudičev boršt (straight ahead Cjanovca and Srednji vrh). The path then crosses the slopes to the west, and then leads us out of the forest to the scenic southern slopes of Cjanovca. It then crosses occasionally steeper grassy slopes, ending at the edge of the forest Hudičev boršt. From here the path climbs slightly and after a few minutes of further walking leads to the Shelter in Hudičev boršt. From the shelter, continue westwards, where you will quickly reach the spring in Hudičev Boršt, and just after it, a marked crossroads, where you continue straight on (left down the Mačenska path to Mače). This is followed by a short crossing of a grassy slope, and then the path passes into the forest and leads us to a crossroads where the path to the right branches off towards Dolgi njiva, Cjanovca, Srednji vrh and Maly Grintovec, and we continue straight ahead. The path continues for a short time crossing the slopes to the left, then crossing the ravine leads us to a crossroads where we continue to the right towards Kišče (the lower path leads to Mače).
The way forward still crosses the slopes to the left. During the crossing we will come to a small scree slope, from which the first view opens up towards the valley. There is a short crossing and the path leads us to the valley of Suha, where the unmarked path from Mače joins us from the left.
Continue in the direction of Kališča and ascend the gradually steepening path. The way forward continues for some time climbing through the dense forest, then leads us to the foot of the rocky cliffs and only slightly higher on the ridge, where only a few metres out of the way we see a small cottage. Here the path turns right and climbs steeply over a short rocky jump. The path lays down here and joins the normal path leading to Kališče just a few metres further on.
Continue in the direction of Kišče and ascend along a moderately steep path, which will take you to the Mountain Home at Kišče in 5 minutes' walking.
Behind Dom na Kališču you will see a mountain direction sign with a number of possibilities to continue the route. Continue along the gently sloping and scenic ridge path in the direction of Storžič, Bašeljski vrh. . . , which continues northwards. After a few minutes of easy walking with beautiful views as far as Julian Alps, we arrive at a crossroads where the path branches off to the left towards the Church of St. Lawrence above Bašelj, mountain pasture Javornik and Kriška gora, the path branches off to the right to Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec, and we continue straight on in the direction of Storžič. A few minutes of crossing the mostly western slopes of Bašeljski vrh (Bašeljski Peak) is followed, and then we arrive at the grassy Bašelj preval, where the path from Jezersko (the starting point of Jekarica in the descriptions) joins from the right. Continue straight on again in the direction Storžič, this time on a path that starts to climb steeply through lane of dwarf pines. After about 30 minutes of ascent from the saddle, we reach the ridge Storžič, which we soon leave as the trail ascends to the southern slopes of the mountain. The southern slopes are quite steep and the ascent is on a steep path which is dangerous to slip on in several places, especially in wet conditions. At higher altitudes, the path flattens out a little and returns to the ridge, along which it continues. Just below the summit, the path from St. Lovrenec, mountain pasture Javornik and the paths over Psica and through Žrelo join the increasingly scenic path from the left. Here you continue slightly to the right and in a few steps you reach one of the most visited two-thousanders in Slovenia.
Lower Kokra - Dom Čemšenik 50 minutes, Dom Čemšenik - Hudičev boršt 2:05, Hudičev boršt - Kališče 1:20, Kališče - Storžič 1:30.

On the way: Dom Čemšenik mountain hut (835m), Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu (1328m), Dom na Kališču mountain hut (1534m), Bašeljski preval (1630m)

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