V Koncu - Štruca (via Gamsov skret)

Access to the starting point:
Drive into Kamnik and follow the road towards the Kamnik Bistrica valley. From your home in Kamniška Bistrica, continue driving along the forest road, which takes you higher up to a crossroads where you continue straight ahead (right Jermanca, starting point for Kamniško sedlo). The road then takes you past Žagana peči to the parking lot at the lower station of the cargo cableway to Kokrsko sedlo.

Path description:
From the parking lot at the lower cable car station, continue along the road to the "upper car park". Here you will see two cart track on the left-hand side of the road next to the car park. The left-hand cart track, which is marked with signs on a tree, leads towards Kokrsko sedlo. We take the right cart track (this cart track is also on the left side of the road).

Initially, follow the above-mentioned cart track for a while, from which a few side tracks branch off, and then the track becomes a lane. Continue for some time on a narrow track through the forest. The path here follows the left side of the valley throughout, thus avoiding the steep rock jump in the lower part of the valley.
Once out of the forest, the path crosses a slightly steeper slope to the right and leads to grassy slopes. The ascent then follows a grassy terrain, which leads us to the foot of the Kogel walls.
Here the better-beaten track turns left towards the wall, and we continue slightly right along a narrow track. The path is quite poorly visible at this point and follows the left side of the torrent up the valley. The waterfall of the above-mentioned torrent (usually without water) can serve as a good orientation. The path turns left a little before the waterfall and enters the cliff.
Here the trail becomes very difficult and first we have to climb a few metres up an almost vertical slope. Then you climb up a narrow shelf, which crosses the slope to the right and leads to steep grassy slopes. Although the ledge is protected, the climb is quite difficult. It should also be borne in mind that the fixed safety gear are usually in slightly worse condition than we are used to on marked routes. We continue to climb for some time on fairly steep grassy slopes, then the slope becomes gradually less steep and the path leads us to an unexpected bench from which there is also a very nice view on all sides.
In the following, we climb up the grassy slope all the way to the marked Kokrsko sedlo - Kamniško sedlo trail.
Here we turn left and follow the marked path, which soon leads us in slight downhills and uphills to a crossroads, where we continue right in the direction of Grintovca and Skute (left bivouac 1 minute) along a relatively gently sloping path, which soon leads us to the next crossroads. Continue right in the direction of Skute (straight Mlinarsko sedlo) along the path which leads us across the karst world of the Great Pods to the foot of a moderately steep wall. Here the path is straightened out and, with the help of natural steel cables, the shorter wall between Dolgi hrbet and Štruca is overcome (in wet conditions there is a high risk of slipping). At the top of the climb, the path from Long Back joins from the left. Continue to the right along the marked path, which you leave just a little further on. At the point where the marked path starts to descend, continue to the right (heading south) and continue the ascent along the easier trackless path. The trackless path is short and, in good weather, easy to navigate.
In Konec - bivouac under Grintovec 3:15, bivouac under Grintovec - Štruca 1:40.

On the way: Bivak pod Grintovcem (2100m)

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