Jablje Castle - Rašica (Vrh Staneta Kosca)
Starting point: Jablje Castle (310 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.1422°N 14.5549°E
Time of walking: 1 h 20 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 331 m
Altitude difference (by path): 350 m
Map: Ljubljana - okolica 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive on Ttrzin bypass road (to here from the roundabout Tomačevo or Domžale), and then we continue driving towards Kamnik. Just before the end of Trzin, signs for Jablje point us to the left on a narrower local road. The mentioned road, we follow to a hamlet Jablje, where on one of the parking lots near the castle Jablje we also park (right next to the castle it is prohibited to park, parking is only for guests).
B) From Kamnik through Mengeš we drive towards Ljubljana. Immediately, when we come in Trzin we turn right and we continue driving towards the hamlet Jablje, where we then park on an appropriate place by the eponymous castle.
Path description:
By the parking lot we notice signs for Rašica, which point us on the forest road, and it starts gently ascending through the forest. And soon the path splits into two parts, where we can continue right on a footpath, or straight on the road. If we continue on the road, at the next crossroad we have to turn right on a cart track, and higher it joins earlier mentioned marked footpath. We continue the ascent through a dense forest, through which we are ascending on the old cart tracks. At the crossings, we stick to the right direction, and the path which meanwhile for few minutes entirely flattens, quickly brings us to an asphalt road which leads from the village Loka towards Dobeno.
At the inn Ručigaj, where we reach an asphalt road, we continue left and we are ascending there with increasingly beautiful views. Higher marked path few times crosses a road, and then it brings us to the inn Dobenski hram.
From here we for some time continue on the "main" road, and then we get to a large parking lot, by which there are a bench and a chapel.
From the parking lot, we continue on an ascending asphalt road which at the crossroads we follow in the direction of the mountain hut Dom na Rašici. With nice views on Posavsko hribovje and partly also on Kamnik Savinja Alps, we quickly get to a hamlet, where mountain signposts for mountain hut Dom na Rašici point us to the right on at first a wide cart track. Here the path passes into the forest, and at the crossings we carefully follow the blazes, that in labyrinth of cart tracks and footpaths we don't miss the right path. Higher wide footpath slightly descends, and then it starts moderately ascending towards the mountain hut Dom na Rašici, which we reach after few minutes of additional walking.
From the hut, we continue on a gently sloping path in the direction of lookout tower, and we reach it after a minute of additional walking. For a nice view it is worth to ascend also on 17 meters high lookout tower.
On the way: Dobeno (511m)
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