Vrčice - Mirna gora (via Planina)
Starting point: Vrčice (481 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.6479°N 15.1415°E 
Path name: via Planina
Time of walking: 2 h 10 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 566 m
Altitude difference (by path): 600 m
Map: Dolenjska - Gorjanci, Kočevski Rog 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Brežice, we go to the exit Ivančna Gorica, and then we continue driving in the direction of Črnomelj. After Črmošnjice, the road is for a short time still ascending, and then it starts descending steeper and brings us in the village Vrčice, where we park on a macadam parking lot near the local inn.
B) From highway Brežice - Ljubljana, we go to the exit Novo mesto, and then we continue driving in the direction Dolenjske Toplice and Podturn pri Dolenjskih Toplicah. In Podturnu we join the main road Ivančna Gorica - Črnomelj, and we follow it left in the direction of Črnomelj. After Črmošnjice, the road is for a short time still ascending, and then it starts descending steeper and brings us in the village Vrčice, where we park on a macadam parking lot near the local inn.
C) From Bela krajina at first we drive in Semič, and then we continue driving towards Črmošnjice and Soteska. Still before the road starts descending, we get to Vrčice, where we park on a large macadam parking lot by the nearby inn.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on a macadam road in the direction of Kleč, Planina and Mirna gora. The macadam road quickly descends to the church of St. Martin, before which we step on an asphalt road which leads on Mirna gora, and we follow it to the right. The road at first leads past few houses, and then passes into the forest, where it starts ascending steeper. And only a little after the asphalt ends, we get to a marked crossroad, where we continue on the right road (left access on Mirna gora with a car), and also the hiking signposts point us there. Further, we are ascending for some time on the macadam road, then the marked path for some time leaves it and at the memorial plaque or stone returns on the macadam road. We continue the ascent on the road, and it gradually flattens and brings us out of the forest on less vegetated area named Kleč.
Here the path leads us past the nearby hunting house Kleč and ruins of the former church, to the next crossroad.
At the crossroad, by which there are numerous signposts, we choose the left path (right Mirna gora via Škrilj), which continues on a slightly ascending macadam road. The road then entirely flattens and in few minutes of additional walking, brings us to the church of St. Ilija.
From the church, we short time continue on the road, and then we get to numerous signposts and marks. We go in the direction of Mirna gora and we continue on the forest teaching trail, which leads us past few houses. Above the houses, the path leads also past an abandoned trough with water, and then it gradually passes into the forest, through which it is moderately to occasionally steeply ascending. A well-marked path, by which there are numerous information boards, higher turns slightly to the right and it brings us to the mountain hut Dom na Mirni gori.
From Dom na Mirni gori we continue right in the direction of the eponymous peak, and the path leads past the lookout tower in the forest, through which we then ascend to the nearby transmitters. At the transmitters, the path turns a little to the left, for some time it slightly descends, and then it ascends on one of the highest peaks of Bela krajina, which we reach after two minutes of additional walking.
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