Javorje - Koprivnik (via Brdo)
Starting point: Javorje (698 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.1585°N 14.1774°E
Path name: via Brdo
Time of walking: 2 h 20 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 695 m
Altitude difference (by path): 715 m
Map: Škofjeloško in Cerkljansko hribovje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We drive to Poljane nad Škofjo Loko, and there from a traffic light crossroad, we continue in the direction of the settlement Javorje. When Poljane ends, the road leads us through Volča, and after the mentioned settlement, the road starts ascending steeper. Higher, we go also through Dolenčice, and then we already get to Javorje, where we park on a parking lot near the succursal primary school Javorje.
Path description:
From the parking lot, in front of which we find some basic information about the meteorite Javorč (meteorite Javorč is the 3rd found meteorit on the territory of Slovenia), we continue past the primary school, and behind the school signs point us to the left. Next follows an ascent on asphalt footpath, and a little higher we return on an asphalt road which we follow to the left. On the road, from which beautiful views opening up, we quickly get to a marked crossroad from which we continue right in the direction of Škofja Loka, Stari vrh and Sveti Brikcij (left Blegoš, Žetina and church of the Assumption of Mary).
Few 10 meters further, the road once again splits, and we continue sharply left (straight Četena Ravan and Koča na Starem vrhu). The path ahead ascends past few houses, and behind them the asphalt ends and we at first continue on a macadam road, later on a cart track. At the crossings, we follow the yellow-green blazes, and the path few minutes leads through the forest. When the forest ends, we reach a smaller hamlet, and we continue right in the direction towards Podvrh. Next follows a shorter ascent, and then a wide cart track flattens and with nice views on Mladi and Stari vrh we reach the village Podvrh, where we go sharply left. We continue on a macadam road, and at the smaller chapel we go once again left. Next follows crossing of the panoramic part, and then the road passes into the forest and it starts ascending diagonally.
Higher on a panoramic part, where there are several piles of sand, from the left joins also the path from the saddle Hleviše, and we continue straight in the forest, where the path splits.
Slightly to the left continues the path Med gorami and the path on Koprivnik, and a little to the right leads the path on Mladi vrh.
We continue slightly left and we continue on a worse macadam road which for some time continues without large changes in altitude. A little further, we continue slightly left, and when the road starts ascending, at the marked crossing we continue on the road in the direction of Koprivnik (left path Med gorami). After the crossing, the road turns right and then it ascends diagonally on a saddle Brdo, where there is a marked crossing.
We continue on the left road in the direction of Koprivnik (straight - the road on which we can descend into the valley Selška dolina or we get to Zapreval, right on a marked path - Mladi vrh), and we walk there to the spot, where signs for Koprivnik point us to the right on a footpath which starts ascending through the forest. The path ahead leads us on cart tracks, where at the crossings we follow the blazes, and higher from few clearings a nice view opens up on neighbouring Mladi vrh. For some time we still walk on a relatively well-marked cart track, and then it changes into a footpath which through the last meadow brings us into the forest and a little further also to the top of Koprivnik.
On the way: Murave (770m), Podvrh (937m), Brdo (1144m)
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