Tomšičeva cesta (Jesenice) - Kozjek (via Šporn)
Starting point: Tomšičeva cesta (Jesenice) (600 m)
Path name: via Šporn
Time of walking: 25 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: easily
Altitude difference: 166 m
Altitude difference (by path): 166 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1 : 50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lipce, where we turn right towards Jesenice. In the settlement Slovenski Javornik, at the crossroad with traffic lights we turn left towards the center of the town. At the second traffic light crossroad (at secondary school) we turn sharply right, back on the road Tomšičeva cesta, past the primary school on the left. After a little less than a kilometer of driving, when the road is slightly descending, we get to vicinity of former store on Tomšičeva cesta (today "Čavs bar"). About 20 meters before that structure we notice pedestrian crossing, which we will use on the path towards Jelenkamen. We park on an appropriate place nearby (or few 100 meters ahead, below the hill, near the railway on large turning point).
Path description:
We cross the road on the mentioned pedestrian crossing, and we continue straight uphill, on a steep asphalt road which leads us past few houses. When the road flattens and crosses the stream, we will after the right turn by the first house on the left side notice a footpath which is ascending uphill towards the north. We leave the road and we step on this path, which is moderately ascending towards the forest. We soon run into a fenced water catchment Šporen from the year 1957. The path (at first a cart track) by the riverbed of a stream brings us into the forest, where we cross one of the branches of the stream. Our path by the cart track turns slightly to the right (cart track turns left) and for the second time crosses the stream, near of which it is still ascending uphill. Soon, near the source of the mentioned stream, the path turns even more to the right and soon brings us to a plain with a crossing.
We continue slightly right on the path by the edge of the plain named (Desni) Hlevček, about 100 meters, whereupon we leave the path (straight - Babji zob pod Kozjekom), and we go left on the western slope of Kozjek, where after a short ascent along the right edge we get to a path. In few minutes ascent on the ridge of the hill, it brings us to the peak with a nice viewpoint.
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