Kočevje - Ledena jama on Stojna (Kalan way)
Starting point: Kočevje (464 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.633°N 14.8585°E
Path name: Kalan way
Time of walking: 1 h 45 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: easily
Altitude difference: 376 m
Altitude difference (by path): 440 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Kočevje, and then we look for street Podgorska ulica (which from the main road branches off to the right - direction of driving towards Delnice). At the end of the mentioned street we will notice signposts and by them a nicely settled parking lot.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we walk to a well-marked crossing, and then we continue right in the direction of the path Kalanova pot (left path Grajska pot). The marked path, which at first runs on the road, soon leaves it and continues left through the forest. Further, we are ascending on the path on which the steepness is increasing, and it few times crosses a forest road. Higher, the steepness decreases and the path joins the forest road on which we continue the ascent. The road soon starts descending and in few steps, it brings us to a marked crossing, where we continue straight in the direction of the cottage Koča pri Jelenovem studencu (left - Mestni vrh, right - Ledenik).
From the crossing to the cottage we have only few minutes of easy walking.
From the cottage, we continue in the direction of Kočevska Reka and cave Ledena jama on a cart track which in few steps of ascent brings us to a macadam road. The mentioned road, we only cross, because signs for cave Ledena jama point us on a footpath which continues parallel with the road. After few minutes of walking through the forest we return on a macadam road which we follow to the right, but only to the next crossing.
We continue right in the direction of cave Ledena jama (left - Požgani hrib) on a cart track which with few shorter ascents and descents brings us to the information board near the cave. From the sign, we descend on a marked path, which in less than a minute of additional walking brings us to the entrance into a cave.
A descent into the cave, because of the steepness, without an appropriate equipment I do not recommend.
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