Starting point: Hrpelje (480 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.6002°N 13.9468°E
Time of walking: 3 h 30 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: easily
Altitude difference: 548 m
Altitude difference (by path): 650 m
Map: Slovenska Istra - Čičarija, Brkini in Kras 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Koper we go to the exit Kozina and follow a road ahead in the direction of Reka. In Hrpelje we notice the sign with the caption for inn "Gostilna na Vasi", which points us right on street Ulica D. Benčiča-B. We follow this road to the mentioned inn behind which we turn right. At the end of the village, we continue on a macadam road by which we also park (we follow the marked road).
Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on a marked road which quickly changes into at first a wide cart track. After few minutes of walking, the cart track splits into two parts, and we continue on the right in the direction of Slavnik. The path which runs on a cart track surrounded with bushes after a time starts ascending and higher brings us to a nice viewpoint by which there is also situated a pleasant bench.
Further, the path returns into the forest and continues in a diagonal ascent all the way to a marked crossing. Here we continue straight in the direction of Slavnik (right Hrpeljska gora) on the path which higher joins the forest road and only a little further brings us to the next crossroad. We still continue in the direction of Slavnik (right hunting lodge below Glavica and Hrpeljska gora) on a relatively gentle road which after few minutes of additional walking brings us to the hunting cottage Pri Lipi.
We continue walking on the road which with some shorter ascents and descents brings us to a marked crossing right next to the mountain pasture Jegno. Here we continue right in the direction of Slavnik (left mountain pasture Jegno 5 minutes) on a little more rocky cart track which higher brings us into the forest, where it also steeply ascends. After a short ascent, the path flattens and it brings us out of the forest on grassy slopes surrounded by bushes (mostly juniper). The path then goes again in the forest, crosses a forest road and then it brings us to a marked crossing, where from the right side, the path from Prešnica joins. We continue left on the wide path, which higher joins the macadam road. We follow this road few minutes, and then blazes point us to the left on a marked path on which in few minutes we ascend to the summit of Slavnik which we see already from the spot, where we left the road.
On the way: Koča pri Lipi (715m)
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