Matizovec - Toplar

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Ljubelj and follow the road ahead towards the border crossing. Main road we leave at the spot, where signs for »camp and Podljubelj« point us to the right. When we leave the main road, we will already after few meters come on crossroad, where we continue left in the direction of »Kofce«. Further, we drive through the village on a slightly ascending road and then we turn right in the direction of »Matizovec and Kofce«. This occasionally a little more narrow road which is in the lower part asphalt, we then follow to a larger marked parking lot, about 150 altitude meters below the farm Matizovec.

Path description:
From large free parking lot we continue on a macadam road, on which in approximately 20 minutes we get to the farm Matizovec.
From Matizovec we continue on a rough road in the direction of Dom na Kofcah, and on some successive crossings, we carefully follow the blazes. After few minutes of walking on a rough road or cart track, blazes point us on a steep footpath which at first ascends diagonally towards the left and then passes on a forested ridge, where it turns a little to the right. Further, we are ascending on a steep mountain path, which higher crosses a cart track and behind it gradually flattens. Only a little further, forest gets thinner, and marked path turns right in the forest and a little higher joins the cart track which is ascending diagonally towards the right. Cart track higher turns to the left, and from the right joins also the marked path from Kal.
From the crossing ahead forest ends, and more and more scenic path in 5 minutes of additional walking brings us to the mountain hut Dom na Kofcah.
From the mountain hut, we continue in the direction of Veliki vrh and Kladivo on at first a little poorly visible path which starts ascending through a panoramic meadow. After 15 minutes of walking from the mountain hut Dom na Kofcah we get to a nice viewpoint by the cross.
The path then slightly descends and in few minutes brings us to steeper slopes of Košuta. The path then ascends through a lane of dwarf pines, where it brings us to a crossing. We continue straight (right Kladivo and Kofce gora) on the path which is diagonally ascending over increasingly steep slopes. The path which ahead runs on an unvegetated slope soon brings us to a short steep part, where we get help from a steel cable (undemanding). When we walk this part, the path turns slightly towards the left and is at first relatively steeply ascending over a grassy slope. The increasingly panoramic path then brings us into a smaller valley through which we ascend almost to the border ridge, where from the right joins the ridge path. After that, the path from a small valley again passes on the south slopes, where on the south side bypasses the peak »Toplar (2000m)«. At this spot, we leave the marked path which leads on Veliki vrh and we go right on pathless terrain. After three minutes of steep but undemanding ascent on pathless terrain we step on Toplar.
The starting point - Matizovec 20 minutes, Matizovec - Kofce 1:15, Kofce - Toplar 1:30.

On the way: Matizovec (1072m), Dom na Kofcah mountain hut (1488m)