Planina Vodol - Mala Raduha

Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Maribor we go to the exit Šentrupert, and then we continue driving towards Mozirje, Ljubno ob Savinji and valley Logarska dolina. From Ljubno we drive on the main road for approximately 6 km, and then in the settlement Strmec, signs for Raduha and Snežna jama point us to the right on narrower and at first still asphalt road. At the crossroads, we follow the signs for cave Snežna jama, and the road which higher loses an asphalt covering we follow to the mountain pasture Vodol. We park by the crossroad, where in the middle of the left turn worse road branches off to the right, which leads to the upper part of the mountain pasture Vodol.
B) From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Vodice, and then we continue driving towards Kamnik. In Kamnik we follow the signs for Gornji Grad and mountain pass Črnivec, and only 1 km before the mentioned mountain pass we turn left in the direction of Kranjski Rak and Podvolovljek. From Kranjski Rak (mountain pass Volovljek) we start descending towards Luče, where we turn right towards Mozirje. From Luče we drive towards Mozirje approximately 3 km, and then in the settlement Strmec, signs for Raduha and Snežna jama point us to the left on narrower and at first still asphalt road. At the crossroads, we follow the signs for cave Snežna jama, and the road which higher loses an asphalt covering we follow to the mountain pasture Vodol. We park by the crossroad, where in the middle of the left turn worse road branches off to the right, which leads to the upper part of the mountain pasture Vodol.

Path description:
From the starting point, we at first walk to the upper part of the mountain pasture Vodol, where signs for mountain hut Koča na Loki point us to the left on a footpath which ascends diagonally by the upper edge of the mountain pasture. The path ahead passes into the forest, where we are for quite some time ascending diagonally. Higher, we step out of the forest, and the path quickly brings us to shepherd huts on the mountain pasture Javorje.
On the other side of the mountain pasture we step on a bad forest road, on which we start considerably descending. After a short descent, we notice the blazes, which point us to the right into the forest, through which in few minutes of additional descent, we descend to the mountain hut Koča na Loki pod Raduho.
From the hut, we continue slightly left (direction Raduha) on the path which runs on the left side of an indistinct ditch. The path which is at first only gently ascending soon turns to the left, where for a short time it steeply ascends through a lane of a dense forest. The steepness then decreases and the forest is gradually replaced by dwarf pines and raspberry bushes. A moderately steep path, which is ascending on the southeastern slopes of Raduha, higher brings us to a marked crossing, where we continue left (right Durce).
Already after few steps of walking from the crossing, we will on the right side of a marked path notice a nice passage among dwarf pines. We go on the mentioned passage (unvegetated indistinct small valley) on which we ascend straight upwards. Higher the passage gets interrupted by dwarf pines, and we look for a partly overgrown footpath which continues right (direction east). The mentioned footpath makes the passage through a lane of dense dwarf pines easier, and it brings us below the peak of Mala Raduha. Again we look for a nice passage among dwarf pines and after few steps of additional walking, we step to the summit of Mala Raduha.
In fog the orientation in the upper part is difficult.
Planina Vodole - Koča na Loki pod Raduho 1:00, Koča na Loki pod Raduho - Mala Raduha 1:25.

On the way: Koča na Loki pod Raduho (1534m)