Apno - Ambrož pod Krvavcem (via Prgozdnik)
Starting point: Apno (655 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.258°N 14.5326°E
Path name: via Prgozdnik
Time of walking: 1 h 35 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 430 m
Altitude difference (by path): 465 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Vodice, and then we follow the signs for ski slope Krvavec. Further, we drive through Vodice, Spodnji Brnik, Zgornji Brnik, Cerklje na Gorenjskem to the settlement Grad, where we continue right in the direction of Ambrož pod Krvavcem and Šenturška Gora. Next follows a steep ascent, when the road flattens we continue straight towards Šenturška Gora (left Ambrož pod Krvavcem and Stiška vas). Next follows driving through Ravne, and then we already get to the settlement Apno, where at the farm Frantar there is the beginning of the described path. At the starting point, there aren't any parking spots.
B) From highway Jesenice - Ljubljana we go to the exit Brnik, and then we follow the signs for ski slope Krvavec. Further, we drive past the airport and through settlements Spodnji Brnik, Zgornji Brnik, Cerklje na Gorenjskem and settlement Grad, where we continue right in the direction of Ambrož pod Krvavcem and Šenturška Gora. Next follows a steep ascent, when the road flattens we continue straight towards Šenturška Gora (left Ambrož pod Krvavcem and Stiška vas). Next follows driving through Ravne, and then we already get to the settlement Apno, where at the farm Frantar there is the beginning of the described path. At the starting point, there aren't any parking spots.
C) First, we drive to Kamnik, and then we go towards Tunjice. From Tunjice we follow the road towards Sidraž, from Sidraž towards Šenturška Gora, from Šenturška Gora we continue straight to the neighbouring settlement Apno, where at the farm Frantar there is the beginning of the described path. At the starting point, there aren't any parking spots.
Path description:
With some effort we will near the farm notice signs for Krvavec and Ambrož pod Krvavcem, which point us on a side road which from the main branches off towards the north. The path ahead leads us past few houses, chapel, and at the end of the settlement, we get to the recycling spot, where we continue left to the nearby religious symbol.
We bypass religious symbol on the right side, and the cart track on which we walk passes into the forest. In the forest, we at first continue straight, and then right in the direction of the path Martinova pot. Next follows few minutes of a diagonal ascent towards the right, where we walk on a forest footpath, and then we reach the crossing of cart tracks, and we continue slightly right, again in the direction of the path Martinova pot. Higher the cart track has even more crossings, and we follow the better beaten cart track, or the one by which there are signs for path Martinova pot (some crossings aren't marked, therefore the orientation is quite difficult). Forest cart tracks, with numerous crossings, we then follow all the way to the inscription box on Prgozdnik.
From the inscription box, we continue left (right downwards Šenturška Gora) and first few 10 strides we are still lightly ascending, after that on a cart track we descend to the nearby macadam road which we follow to the right. Next follows some descent to the farm Pr Duvar, where from the right side marked path joins.
We continue diagonally towards the left, and at the nearby houses the road ends and behind them we continue on a cart track which ascends diagonally through a panoramic meadow. When the cart track turns right, we leave it and we continue even a little more to the right on a marked path which starts ascending steeper on a grassy slope. Next follows an ascent on a panoramic grassy slope, and the footpath is slowly turning a little to the right, so that in a diagonal ascent we reach the church of St. Ambrož and Tourist farm Pr Ambružarju.
Apno - Prgozdnik 1:10, Prgozdnik - Sveti Ambrož 0:25.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2019 (April).
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