Mala Goričica - Agrotourism Obolno (via Obolno)

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Novo Mesto we go to the exit Ivančna Gorica, and then we continue driving towards Stična. After Stična, the road leads us through the settlement Mekinje nad Stično to the settlement Metnaj. At some crossroads we follow the signs for Obolno, and on an asphalt road, we drive to a smaller saddle where the path branches off to the right towards the nearby hunting cottage, in the direction of straight the road continues towards the settlement Debeče, and to the left leads the road towards the settlement Goričica, Poljane and Obolno. We park on an appropriate place by the crossroad.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on an ascending road in the direction of Goričica, Poljane and Obolno. After a shorter steep ascent, the road flattens and brings us on a panoramic meadow, from where a nice view opens up towards the south. Here the road turns a little to the right and leads us past few houses. Behind the houses, at the smaller crossroad we continue right, on the road which a little further starts lightly descending. After a short descent, the road branches off to the left towards the settlement Poljane, and we continue straight in the direction of Obolno. From here we continue on the main road for a short time, and then signs for Plate point us slightly to the left on a macadam road which the same as the asphalt continues through the forest. We continue on the forest road which soon comes out of the forest into a grassy small valley between Veliki vrh (759 meters) on the left and Obolno (776 meters) on the right. Next follows few minutes of walking and the path brings us to the farm Platar, behind which the road turns to the left. And at the part, where the road turns left, signs for Obolno point us to the right into the forest on a marked footpath. The path ahead runs through a lane of bushes and at least at the beginning it is quite overgrown. We quickly get to an old cart track, where we notice the next blaze, and the cart track quickly leads on a wide meadow, where along the left edge we at first can still follow some sort of a footpath which soon vanishes.
We can continue through the forest, where runs marked, but hard to follow path (some fallen trees after the sleet storm in the year 2014), or by the left edge of more and more panoramic meadow (a worse footpath runs also on the right side of the meadow). Higher the forest on the left ends, and we join a little better beaten path which leads from Trebeljevo and Leskovec.
We follow the path to the right, and with nice views on surrounding hills in few minutes we get on a panoramic peak.
From the top, we continue past the cottage of radio club Ivančna Gorica, on a cart track, on which in few minutes we get to an asphalt road. When we step on the road, we continue right and after a minute of additional walking, we get to Agrotourism Obolno.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2015 (May).

On the way: Mala Goričica (620m), Plate (680m), Obolno (776m)