Čepulje - Archangel Gabriel (Planica)
Starting point: Čepulje (672 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.2326°N 14.2832°E
Time of walking: 50 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 152 m
Altitude difference (by path): 165 m
Map: Škofjeloško in Cerkljansko hribovje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Kranj (Labore), and from there we continue driving in the direction of Stražišče, Pševa and Sveti Jošt above Kranj. Higher, we get to the village Javornik, from which road branches off to the right towards the top of Jošt, and we continue straight in the direction of village Čepulje. When we come in Čepulje we continue right (left Planica and Lavtarski Vrh) and we continue driving for approximately 100 meters to a marked parking lot.
B) We drive to Škofja Loka, and then we continue driving towards Železniki. After the settlement Bukovica we leave the main road towards Železniki and we continue right in the direction of the settlement Ševlje and Bukovščica. After Bukovščica the road starts steeply ascending, and meanwhile it leads us through the settlement Strmica. After the mentioned settlement an asphalt for some time ends, and when it again appears, we quickly get to a marked parking lot, which is situated only a little before the beginning of the village Čepulje.
C) First, we drive to Železniki, and then we continue driving towards Škofja Loka. In Dolenja vas or a little after it, we leave the main road and we continue left in the direction of the settlement Šavlje and forward towards Bukovščica. After Bukovščica the road starts steeply ascending, and meanwhile it leads us through the settlement Strmica. After the mentioned settlement an asphalt for some time ends, and when it again appears, we quickly get to a marked parking lot, which is situated only a little before the beginning of the village Čepulje.
Path description:
From the starting point, we walk to a sign which marks the beginning of the settlement Čepulje, and then we continue to a crossroad in Čepulje, by which there is the inn Gostilna Na sedlu.
From the crossroad, we continue on the left road (direction Planica and Lavtarski Vrh) and we continue past the inn Gostilna Na sedlu.
From the crossroad the road at first slightly descends, and then starts gradually ascending towards Planica. A little higher, blazes point us slightly to the left on a marked cart track which is ascending for some time parallel with the road, and then at NOB monument returns on the road.
At the monument from the left the path from Crngrob joins, and we continue on the asphalt road in the direction of Planica. From the monument, the road quickly ascends to Planica, where just before the first house in the village we continue sharply right (direction Cerkev). We continue past a cross on the path which quickly passes into the forest, through which it starts ascending steeper. This in the last part a little steeper path, which mostly runs through the forest, we follow all the way to the top, and we reach it after few minutes of additional walking.
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