Križovec - Barentaler Kotschna/Struška (by road)
Starting point: Križovec (1222 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4699°N 14.0838°E
Path name: by road
Time of walking: 2 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: easily
Altitude difference: 722 m
Altitude difference (by path): 722 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lipce and follow the road ahead in the direction of Jesenice. When we come to the traffic light crossroad, where we join an old road, we continue right in the direction of Žirovnica. And we follow this road only a short time because at the next little larger crossroad (traffic light) we continue left in the direction of Javorniški Rovt. The road then goes through the underpass (railway) and then turns left (right Koroška Bela). The road that higher starts ascending steeply we follow in the direction of Javorniški Rovt. The road ahead runs past the mountain hut Dom Pristava (mountain hut is little above the road) and behind the hut we come on next (smaller) crossroad, where we go right. Ahead we drive on a macadam road all the way to Križovec, which we recognize by crossroad of multiple roads (by the crossroad is few smaller parking spots and a cross).
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go sharply right (direction of arrival) on the road by which there is a cross. The road then runs past a gate and is then ascending gently through the forest. After a little less than 15 minutes of walking from the right side joins the marked path from the mountain hut Dom Pristava. We continue left and the path brings us on pastures of Pusti rovt, where we will notice on the left side two cottages.
We continue past the mentioned cottages to the other side of the mountain pasture, where the road turns right and then in few minutes brings us to a crossroad at torrent. We go on the right road which crosses a cart track towards the saddle Kočna (left Golica). Ahead we again run into the gate which we bypass on the left side. Only few ten meters ahead we get to another gate. The road ahead is ascending in a diagonal ascent towards the east mostly through the forest. Few minutes before the mountain pasture road passes out of the forest on a grazing area of Struška and makes a sharp left turn from which we have only few steps to cottages on the mountain pasture.
From the hut, we continue towards the east at first only slightly upwards. After five minutes of walking from the hut path brings us to less steep gully, where we continue left on a poorly visible unmarked path (straight mountain pasture Seča).
Further, we are ascending on with grass vegetated gully, which is surrounded by dwarf pines. Still hard to follow footpath on the top of this gully turns right on ample slopes of Struška. The path ahead in a moderate ascent crosses southwestern slopes of Struška, which are partly covered with dwarf pines (because the path is hard to follow we can quickly go astray into dwarf pines). A little below the summit "path" brings us on a ridge which we follow to the peak.
Orientation from the mountain pasture to the top is a little harder, and in fog very difficult.
Križovec - Svečica 1:30, Svečica - Struška 45 minutes.
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