Hrušica - Rosenkogel/Hruški vrh (via Češnjevec and Hruška planina)

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Karawanks Tunnel, we go on last exit Hrušica, and we turn right, back towards Jesenice. After 200 meters of driving, we come to a crossroad, where we turn to the left road uphill, which leads through a right turn. On top of the hill, we again run into a crossroad, where we again choose a left direction. After additional 100 meters of driving, we turn on a right side a road, on which in the direction of right we reach a large parking lot in front of a building of local community Hrušica.

Path description:
From the starting point, we go in the direction of east, past a building of local community, and we immediately run into a railway and a railway tunnel Karawanks. On the left side of the tunnel, behind the residential building we look for a footpath which brings us above the railway tunnel, and we continue past a military bunker to a macadam road. We turn right and we walk on this road 200 meters, to the first houses on our left. Here we notice two paths, which lead far left, and we choose higher - cart track which leads in the forest, by which stands a yellow sign. The path (wide, partly rocky cart track) is moderately to steeply and windingly ascending in the direction of norhwest. After some time, we run into a first important crossing, where we continue on the left cart track. When the path for a short time flattens, we run into a wooden shed, and the path again ascends through a mostly beech forest. Steepness for the second time decreases and the path brings us near the gorge of a stream Dobršnik, where we can hear murmur of the waterfalls. Soon after this, the path for a short time comes out of the forest past a hayloft on the left and a meadow on the right. Immediately after this, we also run into an old built cattle pen, which we bypass on the right. A little higher, the path once again gets closer to the gorge, whereupon, when it avoids it a little, we also run into a second more important crossing. Here we again choose the left, and we continue through a beech forest, where moderately ascending and occasionally gentle path, which sticks to the left starts vanishing a little, but we easily recognize it by characteristic stone grounding. After the moderate ascent path starts turning to the right, and a little higher ends on the road, on Rogarjev rovt. We cross the road and we step on a cart track which leads through a meadow, uphill towards the north. It quickly brings us into the forest, where it starts moderately to steeply ascending. When the path turns a little to the right and splits, we continue to the right, past a gate, a little steeper uphill. The path is getting more and more appearance of a settled forest road. After a few turns steepness gradually starts decreasing and when on the right opens look towards the saddle Rožca and Klek, the forest road finally flattens. After a short time the path again ascends a little, and soon after this we already run into a fence with a gate. We enter the mountain pasture, where at first we notice Hruški vrh, and the path through some turns, after crossing the stream and the last gentle ascent brings us to the shepherd hut on Hruška planina. On a wall, in front of the entrance into the cottage, we will run into an attached inscription box.
We continue behind the cottage in the direction of norhwest, towards with a larches vegetated part of the south slope of Hruški vrh. When over a little swampy terrain we ascend towards the mentioned larches, we run into a remains of the path which is ascending in zig-zags still in the direction a little to the left, towards dwarf pined ridge of Črničje with height 1610 (on the maps it doesn't have a name). In the vicinity of the summit a small valley between slopes of Hruški vrh and mentioned ridge several times interrupted path turns left towards a grazing fence. The latter we cross, and we continue sharply right on a poorly visible path, steeply uphill (straight path towards the mountain pasture Dovška Rožca). Next follows about 15 min. of steep ascent on a grassy terrain (on the descent in wet dangerous for slipping) by both sides of the grazing fence. When the steepness decreases and we crossed a mountain path (Via Alpina), we get to "Izidor's chapel" on the top of Hruški vrh, from where we continue only few meters to the right, to a bench with a stamp and an inscription book.

On the way: Hruška planina (1378m)