Kajfežev rob - Kamniški vrh
Starting point: Kajfežev rob (900 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.2949°N 14.5825°E
Time of walking: 1 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: demanding
Altitude difference: 359 m
Altitude difference (by path): 359 m
Map: Kamniške in Savinjske Alpe 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We drive to Kamnik and follow the road ahead towards the valley of Kamniška Bistrica. Only few ten meters before the bottom station of a cable car on Velika planina, forest road branches off to the left downwards into a valley of Korošica. We go on this road which at first descends, then crosses a bridge and a little further brings us to a crossroad, where we continue straight. Only a little further, we come to the next crossroad, where we continue sharply left, we cross a smaller wooden bridge and we are then ascending on occasionally quite a bad macadam road. This road which crosses numerous avalanche slopes we follow 2 to 3 km, and then we park on one of the parking lots by the road.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road which still crosses landslide (part of the road landslide swept away 3/5/2009) and occasionally panoramic slopes. A little further, the road which is barely ascending brings us into a dense forest, and here we need to pay attention, because we will on a smaller clearing (look picture 5) notice an old hunting path, which from the road goes left in the forest.
We go on the mentioned path which starts moderately, and then steeper and steeper ascending through the forest. Higher, we come on a smaller crossing, where we step on also unmarked traverse path. The mentioned footpath we follow to the left, and in a crossing of a little steeper slope it brings us to the next crossing, where we continue sharply right. This occasionally a little poorly visible footpath we follow all the way to the saddle between Kamniški vrh on the left and Planjava on the right.
On the saddle, we step on a marked path, which we follow left in the direction of Kamniški vrh to which we only have good 10 minutes. The path from the saddle ahead is ascending on a wide ridge, which to the right (south) side offers nice views.
From the top, we can continue on the path also a little further to a nice vantage point by which stands also a smaller bivouac.
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