Begunje - Velika Špička

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Koper we go to the exit Unec and follow the road ahead in the direction of Cerknica. Only a little before Cerknica we continue left in the direction of Begunje, after that on a little more winding road we quickly get to the already mentioned village. In Begunje we continue driving on the main road, and then at the crossroad by store Mercator, we continue straight on a macadam road by which we notice signs for Špičasto Stražišče (left Bezuljak, right Selšček). Worse macadam road, we then follow to a smaller parking lot by village bowling alley.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on a worse macadam road which already after few 10 strides of easy walking it brings us to a crossing of three cart tracks. We continue on the most left (possible also middle) cart track, and in a gentle ascent it brings us to the next marked crossing.
We continue on the left path (right Špiček via Cumarovnik) and we continue the ascent on a gentle cart track which higher changes into a gradually steeper footpath. Eventually, the path brings us below the peak Begunjske Zalake, where we also step out of the forest on pleasant grassy slopes. Here the path flattens, after that few minutes continues without large changes in altitude. A little further, we step on a cart track, from which after few minutes of walking, the marked footpath branches off to the right. We go on the mentioned footpath, and it soon brings us to the crossing, where from the right side joins the path from the village Selšček and the other path from Begunje (option for a descent). We continue straight on a relatively gently sloping mountain path, on which in less than 5 minutes of additional walking, we ascend to the summit of Velika Špička.