Zavetišče na planini Šija - Veliko Kladivo (direct way)
Starting point: Zavetišče na planini Šija (1528 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4248°N 14.3354°E 
Path name: direct way
Time of walking: 1 h 30 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: partly demanding
Altitude difference: 566 m
Altitude difference (by path): 566 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Ljubelj. Further, we drive to the center of Tržič and we follow the road through gorge Dolžanova soteska to the village Jelendol, where signs for mountain pasture Kofce, Šija and Pungrat point us to the left. The road then loses an asphalt covering and starts ascending steeply. This road at the crossroads we follow in the direction of the mountain pastures Pungrat and Šija. We park on a parking lot near the cottage on the mountain pasture Šija.
Path description:
From the cottage on the mountain pasture Šija we return on the road few steps back, and then we go on a footpath in the direction of Kladivo. The path for few 10 strides moderately ascends, and then continues parallel with the nearby road. A little further, we come on a larger grazing area, where the footpath for some time vanishes, but if we stick to the middle of the meadow, with the orientation there aren't any bigger problems. On the other side of the pasture, we again notice signs for Kladivo, which point us slightly left in a lane of thin forest. Here, the footpath again becomes more distinct, and it gradually starts ascending steeper. Higher the forest gets even thinner, and the path turns right on a gradually increasingly steep grassy slopes, on which we are then ascending diagonally. Occasionally steeper path, crosses few patches of dwarf pines, and then turns a little more to the left, where it starts ascending steeply towards the indistinct saddle between Malo and Veliko Kladivo.
When increasingly panoramic path reaches the main ridge, we join the marked path, and we follow it right towards Veliko Kladivo (left Malo Kladivo and Veliki vrh). The path ahead at first ascends diagonally on increasingly steep slope, and then turns to the left, where it ascends on a short steep rocky slope. The path then for few meters flattens, crosses steep grass, and then it starts ascending towards the summit, which we reach after 5 minutes of additional walking.
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