Belica - Polhograjska Grmada
Starting point: Belica (344 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.0659°N 14.3479°E
Time of walking: 1 h 30 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: partly demanding
Altitude difference: 554 m
Altitude difference (by path): 565 m
Map: Ljubljana - okolica 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Dobrova at Ljubljana, and then we continue driving in the direction of Polhov Gradec. Only a little after the village Log pri Polhovem Gradcu we will come in the village Belica, which is the starting point for our tour. But because in the mentioned village there aren't any appropriate parking spots, we drive for approximately 500 meters, to the neighbouring village Dvor, where we park on a large parking lot by the beginning of the village.
Path description:
From the parking lot in Dvor, we return on the main road to the village Belica, and there signposts point us to the left (from the direction Ljubljana right) on a little narrower and macadam road which is gently ascending through the village. The road is further gently ascending by a trickling stream and then it brings us to a smaller crossing, where we continue on the left bad road or cart track. Stream over which leads the left cart track, we cross with the help of a wooden bridge, and then we follow the cart track only few meters. Because after few meters blazes point us to the right, where we again cross the stream (Veliki graben), and the path then through smaller meadow leads in the forest, where it gradually starts ascending steeper and steeper. A relatively steep path, higher brings us on at first an indistinct ridge of Kregovnik, which we reach after approximately an hour of walking.
From Kregovnik (692 meters) path slightly descends, and then it again starts ascending steeper, this time on the southeastern slopes of Polhograjska Grmada. The path which meanwhile passed from mixed forest into a little thinner, mostly pine forest, offers increasingly beautiful views on surroundings. After few minutes of additional walking, we step on a traverse path, which we follow to the left (right on quite an overgrown path Gonte and Topol), but we walk there only for approximately 3 minutes, and then blazes for Grmada lead right uphill. Further, we are ascending on a panoramic slope, where after a short ascent, we join much better beaten path. Next follows a steep ascent on a rocky path, which partly resembles high-mountains. Higher, we cross a short lane of a forest, after that from the left joins the marked path from Dvor and Polhov Gradec. We continue on the right ascending path, and only after few steps it brings us to the next crossing, where from the right joins also the path from Gonte and Topol. Here we continue left and after few steps of additional walking, we reach the peak of 898 meters high Polhograjska Grmada.
Trip can be extended to: Tošč
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