Gornji Grad - Lepenatka (via Kal)

Access to starting point:
From the valley Savinjska dolina or from Kamnik through mountain pass Črnivec, we drive to Gornji Grad, where on a settled parking lot by the main bus stop we also park.

Path description:
From the main bus stop in Gornji Grad, we continue by the main road towards the mountain pass Črnivec and Kamnik, and we walk there approximately 5 minutes, or to a crossroad, where narrower asphalt road towards Lenart branches off to the right.
The path ahead leads us on the mentioned road which is at first ascending gently over ample meadows. A little higher the road passes into a valley of the stream Kanolščica, through which we are then for quite some time gently to moderately ascending. At all crossroads we follow the road on the bottom of the valley, and after approximately 1 hour of walking from the starting point, we notice signposts, which point us to the left on a footpath which ascends below the power line poles. After few 10 meters we cross a torrent, and then the path starts ascending steeply over occasionally quite overgrown slopes. Higher, the path leads over short partly demanding part, where landslide swept away few meters of a marked path. The path after that returns into a dense forest, through which is short time steeply ascending, and then it flattens and brings us on the nearby road. We follow the road to the left, and we walk there to the first turn, where at the end of it, we continue left on a marked footpath, on which we quickly ascend to homestead Knebovšek. We walk through the yard, and then we continue in the direction of Lepenatka and Rogatec. A little above the farm the road changes into a cart track, and it turns right in the forest, where crosses slopes towards the right. A little further, we cross slightly exposed torrent, after that on occasionally overgrown footpath we get to a forest road. We follow the road to the right and past the chapel in a gentle descent, we walk to a marked crossing. From the crossing, we continue in the direction of St. Lenart and we continue on a wide cart track, on which in 3 minutes of additional walking, we get to the already mentioned small church.
From the church, we continue left in the direction of saddle Kal and Lepenatka (straight Zgornji Špeh and Veliki Rogatec) on the path which ascends above cart track. After a short ascent from the left joins few minutes shorter path, which bypasses the church of St. Lenart. We continue straight and after a further shorter ascent we step on a macadam road which we follow to the right, and there we walk to the nearby crossroad.
From here we continue right in the direction of saddle Kal (left Lepenatka "on ridge"), where after 2 minutes of additional walking, we get to the end of the road below Lepenatka.
From the end of the road blazes point us into a torrent ditch and then right on a steep and mainly in wet for slipping dangerous slopes (in the winter on this part also a danger of avalanches). In few minutes on a well maintained mountain path we ascend on a forested ridge, where the path and the slope flatten out. The path ahead for some time leads on and by the forested ridge and then turns to the right and in a diagonal ascent brings us below the saddle Kal. Here we step on a narrow cart track, on which we ascend in few minutes to the already mentioned saddle.
From the saddle, we continue left (right Bivak na Kalu 3 minutes and Veliki Rogatec 50 minutes) and we at first ascend by the edge of the forest and then the path brings us on ample grassy slopes of Lepenatka. The path ahead leads us on a more and more panoramic ridge and then the path flattens a little and it brings us on the main ridge of Lepenatka, where from the left joins the path "on the ridge". Here we continue right and in a minute of additional walking, we get to grassy and panoramic peak.

On the way: Sveti Lenart nad Gornjim Gradom (929m), Bivak na Kalu (1285m)

Trip can be extended to: Rogatec