Phliški bajer - Mengeška koča on Gobavica (lower path)
Starting point: Phliški bajer (329 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.1669°N 14.537°E
Path name: lower path
Time of walking: 1 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 104 m
Altitude difference (by path): 150 m
Map: Ljubljana - okolica 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) We leave Gorenjska highway at exit Vodice, and then we continue driving towards Kamnik, and then in Vodice we turn slightly right in the direction of the settlement Bukovica. Further, we drive on the road towards Mengeš, and we are driving there to a crossroad at the end of the settlement Koseze, where at the bus stop, we turn right in the direction of Šinkov Turn and Rašica. Few 10 meters further we leave the asphalt road and we continue left on a macadam road in the direction of Rašica and mountain hut Mengeška koča. When we leave the main road, we park on an appropriate place by the road, possible also a little further by the lake Phliški bajer or Koseški bajer.
B) We drive to Mengeš, after that from the main crossroad in the center of Mengeš, we continue driving towards Kranj. A little further from the main road we turn slightly left on the road in the direction towards Vodice. At the beginning of the settlement Koseze we get to a crossroad, where at the bus stop we turn left in the direction of Šinkov Turn and Rašica. Few 10 meters further we leave the asphalt road and we continue left on a macadam road in the direction of Rašica and mountain hut Mengeška koča. When we leave the main road, we park on an appropriate place by the road, possible also a little further by the lake Phliški bajer or Koseški bajer.
Path description:
From the starting point, we continue in the direction of Rašica, Dobeno and mountain hut Mengeška koča, and then before the lake Phliški bajer or Koseški bajer we turn right. We continue by the lake, and when the western "coast" ends, we continue left, for some time still by the lake, and then sharply right, on a cart track which ascends diagonally on a slope. The marked path soon turns back towards the left, and at the crossings we follow the marked path, and there a little ahead we reach a marked crossing.
From the crossing, we continue in the direction of the lower path on the mountain hut Mengeška koča (slightly left the ridge path on the mountain hut Mengeška koča, right the ridge path on Rašica), where we few steps still walk on the cart track, and then blazes point us to the left on a forest path. Next follows a walk with some shorter descents and ascents, where at the crossings we follow the blazes. After few minutes, we get to the next crossing, where we once again choose the lower path. Further, we get very close to a macadam road, and blazes lead us left, through shorter a little overgrown part, and then we get to the next crossing, where we join the ridge path.
We continue right, on a cart track in the direction of the mountain hut Mengeška koča, and the path out of the forest leads on a meadow, on which we walk to the nearby hayrack. At the hayrack we go left and past the bench we ascend in the forest. Through the forest, we for some time ascend steeper, and then through a short panoramic part, from which the view reaches all the way to the Alps, we quickly get to the mountain hut Mengeška koča on Gobavica.
Description refers to condition in June 2017, and pictures are from April and June 2017.
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