Starting point: Komarna vas (680 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.672°N 15.0833°E
Time of walking: 1 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 275 m
Altitude difference (by path): 285 m
Map: Dolenjska - Gorjanci, Kočevski Rog 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From Ivančna Gorica or Novo Mesto we drive to Podturn at Dolenjske Toplice, and then we continue driving in the direction of Črnomelj. The mentioned road, we follow to Črmošnjice, here at the first crossroad, we continue right in the direction of the ski slope Gače (SC Bela) and Komarna vas. After approximately 2 km of ascent we come to the crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Kočevje. Still relatively steep road higher brings us out of the forest, where we come on some successive smaller crossroads. We continue left, we drive past larger farm and graveyard Komarna vas, and then we come to bigger house, on which we notice the blazes, which point us on a footpath (in the winter cross country ski trail). We park at the appropriate place before or after the house.
Access from Bela krajina: First, we drive to Semič, and then we continue driving in the direction of Dolenjske Toplice. The mentioned road, we follow to Črmošnjice, there at the crossroad, only few 10 meters before the end of the village, we continue left in the direction of the ski slope Gače (SC Bela) and Komarna vas. Further, we follow the description above.
Path description:
From the starting point, we go on a wide marked footpath (cart track or in the winter time cross country ski trail), which is barely ascending through the forest. After approximately 15 minutes of walking, we step out of the forest on a larger clearing, by the edge of which stands a smaller trailer.
From the clearing, we continue in approximately same direction as we were walking until now and we continue the ascent on at first a poorly visible footpath which quickly passes into a dense forest. The path which gradually starts ascending a little steeper, higher brings us to a forest road which we only cross. Further, we are moderately ascending on occasionally quite a lot overgrown footpath, and a little higher it brings us to other forest road. The mentioned road, we follow to the left, and it quickly brings us to a ski track of SC Bela. Here the road turns sharply right and past the mighty trees brings us to ruins, which are part of memory park on Gače. We continue on the more and more scenic path, which past a smaller chapel brings us to the inscription box on Gače.
From the inscription box, we can in good 5 minutes of additional walking also ascend on one (possible also both) of two panoramic peaks of SC Bela.
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