Nova Štifta - Koča na Kamnem griču

Access to starting point:
We drive on a regional road from Ljubljana towards Kočevje or vice versa. At the village Žlebič we will notice signs for Nova Štifta and Sodražica, which point us to the right (and from Kočevje and Ribnica left). Ahead we drive to the village Lipovščica, where a sign for Nova Štifta points us left upwards on an ascending road. We follow this road to the parking lot near the church in Nova Štifta.

Path description:
From the parking lot near the church we continue on the road in the direction of the mountain hut Dom na Travni Gori. Already after few ten strides of walking road brings us on first crossroad, where we continue straight (left downwards, village Ravni Dol). We continue walking on a gently sloping macadam road which past the quarry brings us to the next crossroad, where we continue straight on a footpath (footpath is located between the both roads). The path ahead is at first moderately, after that relatively steeply ascending through a dense forest. The path higher crosses a forest road and after a shorter ascent again joins it. Here we continue left, on the road which after few ten strides we leave because blazes point us left on a cart track. Cart track at first gently ascends through a partly overgrown meadow, and then it brings us to the chapel and NOB monument. Next follows a short light descent and the path again brings us to a macadam road which we follow to the left. Only a little further, the road splits, and we continue left on the bottom road which in two minutes of walking, it brings us to the mountain hut Dom na Travni Gori.
From the hut, we continue right through a meadow, where we quickly get to other macadam road which we reach right at the smaller crossroad. From the crossroad, we continue left on the macadam road which continues without large changes in altitude. The path ahead leads us past signposts, and from here we walk on the road for approximately 500 meters or to the spot, where blazes on some sort of the parking lot point us to the right. After few meters of walking, at the spot where the path passes into the forest we also notice signposts for mountain hut Koča na Kamnem griču.
The path ahead is at first ascending on gentle and usually quite muddy cart track which already after few minutes steeply ascends. When the steepness decreases we come on badly marked crossing, where we continue right. We continue walking on wider, but poorly marked cart track which after a short descent changes into a macadam road, and it quickly brings us to the next crossing. We continue left, on a worse macadam road in the direction of Kamni grič. On smaller turning point the road changes into a cart track, and here we continue straight (badly marked) on a pleasant cart track which out of the forest brings us on pleasant grassy slopes. On the other side of the meadow, we get to a marked crossing, where we continue right in the direction of the mountain hut, to which we have 5 more minutes of ascent on a moderately steep cart track which is ascending over earlier mentioned meadow.
Nova Štifta - Dom na Travni Gori 45 minutes, Dom na Travni Gori - Koča na Kamnem griču 50 minutes.

On the way: Travna Gora (880m), Dom na Travni Gori mountain hut (906m)