Phliški bajer - Mengeška koča on Gobavica (ridge path)
Starting point: Phliški bajer (329 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.1681°N 14.5385°E
Path name: ridge path
Time of walking: 1 h 10 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 104 m
Altitude difference (by path): 200 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Vodice and we continue driving towards Vodice. In the traffic light crossroad in Vodice we continue straight and then at the next crossroad right in the direction of Bukovica pri Vodicah and Utik. Further, we drive past few hamlets, and then the road branches off to the right towards the village Šinkov Turn. Here we continue straight as well, and after few 100 meters right towards the lake Phliški bajer. We park on an appropriate place near the lake.
B) First, we drive to Mengeš, and then we continue driving towards Komenda. At the end of the settlement Mengeš, only a little after we cross the stream Pšata, we turn left on a local road towards the settlement Topole. Before we get to the mentioned settlement, we again continue left, this time towards Utik. Further, we drive on a local road, and we are driving there at first through the forest and then through a larger meadow. Here already one of the marked paths branches off to the left, but because here aren't any appropriate parking spots, we drive to the first houses and there we turn left towards the lake Phliški bajer. We park on an appropriate place near the crossroad or the lake.
Path description:
From the starting point, we at first walk to the lake Phliški bajer, and then we continue on its southwestern edge. Here we go left and we short time still continue by the lake, and then the path starts ascending diagonally and only a little higher joins a marked cart track (cart track starts near the saddle at 342 meters - northeastern side of the lake), which we follow to the right. Cart track soon brings us on an indistinct ridge, where it turns sharply to the left (here also the path from Šinkov Turn joins). We continue on the path which is then relatively gently ascending through the forest. A little higher we step on a wide cart track, and there in few steps of additional walking, we walk to a marked crossing.
At the crossing, we continue left in the direction of the mountain hut Mengeška koča (right Dobeno and Rašica) and in few minutes we ascend on an indistinct peak Magarovnik (402 meters). Next follows a short descent to a small saddle between Magarovnik and Marin hrib. Here from the left joins also less visited path from the village Topole, and we continue straight and we almost unnoticeably ascend on Marin hrib (408 meters).
From the top, on which there is usually a pile of logs, we again start descending. After a short descent, we step out of the forest, and before the houses we turn left into a lane of a forest. Here the path ascends steeper for a short time, and then it flattens and past a panoramic meadow brings us to the mountain hut Mengeška koča on Gobavica.
On the way: Magarovnik (402m), Marin hrib (408m)
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