Podkočna - Jamnikov spodmol
Starting point: Podkočna (550 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4234°N 14.0799°E
Time of walking: 35 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 170 m
Altitude difference (by path): 185 m
Map: Zemljevid: TNP 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lipce, where we turn right towards Jesenice. Immediately after the settlement Lipce to the right, the road descends and after a little less than a kilometer brings us to a crossroad at the bridge over the river Sava. Here we continue driving slightly left or straight in the direction of Podmežakla. After a short driving uphill, below its top, on the left side of the road, we notice a bus stop and a bigger turning point. Here we park appropriately.
Path description:
From the starting point, we return on the road to a crossroad at the bridge over the river Sava, and we continue straight to the first house on the right, which is situated below the slopes of the hill. Few meters ahead, where we run into a well, we step on an asphalt path which leads behind the house uphill towards the right. Already after few steps, the path turns sharply left and loses an asphalt covering. We continue uphill past the last house on the right, and soon after this on the same side we turn into a small tunnel under the railway track. The path on the other side of the tunnel turns right and short time leads uphill towards the west, and when the path from the right joins, it turns sharply left, below the highway viaduct.
We continue on the other side of viaduct towards the east, on the path uphill, from which we have a view on the other side of the highway towards Koroška Bela. The path quite quickly brings us near the garden fence and house on a slope on the right. Here at the end of the fence we at first turn right and after few steps also left on a footpath which on grass ascends to a macadam road. When we step on the road, already after few meters on the right we notice the path in the forest, on which we go, and we continue towards the summit. In the forest, the path soon turns sharply right and it brings us to the power line, where we leave a wider path, and we go left, on a steeper hill, on a footpath which is ascending by the power line. After few minutes of ascent, the path turns left and over a small saddle brings us on an asphalt road Jesenice - Bled (also the beginning of the marked path on Mežakla).
We carefully cross the road and next to it we continue few 10 meters towards the settlement Kočna. At the smaller parking lot, which is situated about 50 meters before the settlement sign, we turn left on the path which leads in the forest. It already after few steps turns left, and only few meters after this we leave it, and turn slightly (not perpendicularly!) right. Here we will about 30 meters in front of us notice a passage from a dense part of the forest towards the slope of the hill, on which we run into a footpath. It quickly brings us into a thinner forest below the steep western slopes of the hill Žerjavec (Kavče).
When we look straight towards the slope, we can with a little attention about 50 meters higher notice a darker gap by the foot of the rocky walls - Jamnikov spodmol.
During the pathless ascending on a grassy forested slope towards the destination, we will cross also a barely noticeably footpath, and shortly also reach Jamnikov spodmol at an altitude 720 meters.
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