Kandrše (Trata) - Dom Ušte - Žerenk

Access to starting point:
A) We leave Štajerska highway at exit Krtina, and then we follow the signs for Moravče and Zagorje ob Savi. Only a little after the road sign, which marks the beginning of the settlement Kandrše, we get to a saddle by hamlet Trata, where we turn left and we park on a macadam parking lot opposite the company Strip's, elektrotehnika - elektronika, d.o.o.
B) We drive to Izlake (to here from Trojane or Zagorje ob Savi), and then we continue driving in the direction of Moravče. In the settlement Kandrše, at company Strip's, elektrotehnika - elektronika, d.o.o. we turn right and we park on a macadam parking lot next to hiking signposts.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we at first carefully cross the main road and we continue on a side road in the direction of GEOSS and Vače. The path ahead leads us past the fire station PGD Kandrše and Napoleon stone, and at the sign for the beginning of municipality Litija we go from the asphalt road left on a cart track. On the cart track, we walk to the entrance into the forest and then blazes point us to the right (straight - unmarked path on Slemšek), where we ascend through a lane of a forest. After a short ascent, we return on the asphalt road, and there we ascend to the nearby crossroad, where we leave the road towards Vače and GEOSS and we continue right on a side road, on which we get to a smaller hamlet, where the road ends. All the houses we bypass on the left side and we continue on a cart track which at first lightly descends, and then through a meadow we lightly ascend to a hamlet Strmec. Here we again step on the road and past houses and a religious symbol we ascend to a poorly marked crossroad, where we go right downwards (on the left road, we can get to Slivna and GEOSS). Next follows some descent and we get to municipality Moravče, and from the path, a nice view opens up, which reaches to Kamnik Savinja Alps. A little further, we get to the settlement Gora pri Pečah, where from the crossroad we continue slightly left in the direction of hamlet Zgornja Gora.
Next follows a diagonal ascent, and then we go once again slightly left (slightly right - hamlet Dolina), and few minutes higher we already get to the hamlet Zgornja Gora, where there is a crossing of marked paths.
Sharply to the left leads a marked path towards GEOSS, and we continue straight and follow the signs for the path around Slivna. Above the hamlet, the road becomes steeper and in few minutes brings us to the church of St. Florjan, from which a nice view opens up on Posavsko hribovje, in good visibility, the view reaches all the way to the Alps.
From the church, we continue on the road which for some time passes into the forest and is mostly moderately ascending. Higher, we step out of the forest and past the hunting observatory we get to a crossing, where we join the marked path which leads through or past Pivkelj.
We still continue on the road, and there past a religious symbol we get to a hamlet Štance Laze, after which the road starts considerably descending. Before the sharp right turn, a nice view opens up on surrounding hills, and the macadam road lower becomes asphalted. We continue the descent, and at the crossroads, we continue straight. Lower, the road flattens and then leads past the ranch Pr Oselet, after which we go slightly right, on the path which crosses a lane of a forest and it quickly brings us to the mountain hut Ušte - Žerenk.
Kandrše - Sveti Florjan 1:30, Sveti Florjan - Dom Ušte - Žerenk 1:05.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in December 2018 and March 2020.

On the way: Sveti Florjan (Zgornja Gora) (698m)

Trip can be extended to: GEOSS , Dom na Slivni , Slivna (Pivkelj)