Podlipoglav - Pugled (on the western ridge)

Access to starting point:
We leave Ljubljana eastern bypass highway at the exit Lj.-Sostro/Lj. -Bizovik and we go in the direction of Sostro. (To here we can drive also from the center of Ljubljana on the road Litijska cesta). About 700 meters from the highway - at the "Y" crossroad - we turn right in the direction of Podlipoglav. We follow this road good 4 km - through the last edges of Ljubljana, past the church of St. Lenart, through Sadinja vas and lastly to Podlipoglav. Here at the only larger crossroad, we don't continue left on the main road, but straight in the direction of Šentpavel/Brezje/Repče.

The starting point is only 200 meters ahead of this crossroad, at the end of the settlement Podlipoglav or at the turn-off of the road towards Šentpavel (some space for parking is by the turn-off or just before the bridge). To here from the bypass highway there is 5 km (and from the center of Ljubljana good 10 km).

Path description:
A note: Path on Pugled on the western ridge isn't marked, therefore for the ascent we needed some sense for orientation. The entire hill is crisscrossed with tracks for steep cycling descents (downhill), so we can reach the peak on numerous combinations of paths, not necessarily on the described.

If we are standing at the turn-off for Šentpavel, Pugled is directly in front of us, towards the east. From the turn-off, we short time continue by an asphalt road towards Repče and Brezje. Already after good 100 meters from the asphalt road a worse cart track branches off to the left and there we go mildly upwards. (A note: A little less than 50 meters after the turn-off of the cart track we notice also the turn-off of a macadam road; which is the beginning of the second option of access, which runs past the guard post number 1. and it is partly marked). Already after good 100 meters we step into the forest, where we continue directly upwards on a well-beaten path (left horizontal - we see another well-beaten path; and right - an old cart track).

Further, the path leads us steadily upwards on the most beaten passages. On the path we cross quite a few other paths, old cart tracks and downhill tracks (marked with stone pyramids). At the first stone pyramid, we turn right upwards, and at the second pyramid firmly left steeply upwards, where we step on a nice western ridge or broad ridge. The path for quite some time follows this broad ridge; in parts it runs directly on a cart track, leads us past (already the third) pyramid, and soon after the fourth (smaller) pyramid for a short time it turns left away from the cart track and then it quickly returns there. On the top of the western ridge in front of us we notice the peak of Pugled.

The path now for a short time flattens and goes on a shady, northeastern side of the western secondary peak. After few minutes of walking in the shade of the western secondary peak we step on a small saddle. Here is a juncture of several paths (option of combining).

From the saddle, we have to turn around the upper pyramid almost horizontal to the left, on a quite narrow path. And in a gentle ascent it runs clockwise circularly around the peak. And only when we are on the northeastern side, the path goes upwards and directly to the summit.

If we use the described path for a descent, we go by the inscription box in the direction of northeast downwards.

A note: On the summit of Pugled since the April 2019 there is a pole with a flag. A smaller clearing on the western edge of the peak provides a view on Ljubljana Basin, with Julian Alps and Šmarna gora at the back.