Planina Spodnji Kozjek - Jerebikovec

Access to starting point:
A) We leave Gorenjska highway at exit Jesenice east (Lipce), and then we follow the signs for Spodnje Gorje and Pokljuka. Further, we drive through the settlement Kočna, and then we already get to Spodnje Gorje, where we at first cross the stream Rečica, and a little and after the stream we go right in the direction of the settlement Zgornje Laze. Further, we drive on a narrower road which leads us through the settlement, and when the settlement Zgornje Laze ends, in a smaller valley, where the road turns semicircular to the left and where there ares several crossroads, we choose the second turn-off to the right. Further, we start ascending towards the plateau Mežakla, when the road flattens we go past the mountain pasture Strmole and mountain pasture Ravne. At the end of the mountain pasture Ravne we continue straight (left cottage of university Univerza v Ljubljani) and we again start considerably ascending. When we already pass over on northwestern slopes of the peak Oblek, cart track branches off to the left, which leads to the near mountain pasture Spodnji Kozjek, and we continue on a wider macadam road to the next crossroad by which there is a marked parking lot and we park on an appropriate place by the crossroad.
B) We drive to Bled, and then we continue driving towards Pokljuka. Towards the end of the settlement Krnica we leave the main road towards Pokljuka and we continue right downwards in the direction of Radovna, Krma and Mojstrana. Next follows some descent, and then we over the bridge cross river Radovna, and after the bridge we go right in the direction of Perniki and Zgornje Laze. Further, we drive through Spodnje Laze, and when the mentioned settlement ends, in a smaller valley, the road turns semicircular to the right and where there are several crossroads, we choose the second turn-off to the left. Further, we start ascending towards the plateau Mežakla, when the road flattens we go past the mountain pasture Strmole and mountain pasture Ravne. At the end of the mountain pasture Ravne we continue straight (left cottage of university Univerza v Ljubljani) and we again start considerably ascending. When we already pass over on northwestern slopes of the peak Oblek, cart track branches off to the left, which leads to the near mountain pasture Spodnji Kozjek, and we continue on a wider macadam road to the next crossroad by which there is a marked parking lot and we park on an appropriate place by the crossroad.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the left road (slightly right mountain pasture Zgornji Kozjek), which leads us past a green gate and is further ascending diagonally towards the left. After a good 10 minutes of walking, we get to a smaller crossroad, from which we continue on the upper, slightly right road which then with occasional views we follow to its end.
From the end of the road, from where a really nice view opens up on the highest peaks of the Julian Alps we go right and we continue walking on a worse footpath which after few minutes brings us on a cart track which from the road branches off slightly to the right approximately a minute before the road ends. The path ahead leads us on an old cart track, over which there are several fallen trees. Higher, the cart track flattens, and then above Požarov rovt (Požarov rovt is part of the forest, where the cart track flattened) joins the forest road which we follow upwards. We continue walking on the forest road which makes few hairpin turns and from which still occasional views are opening up. When higher at an altitude of approximately 1450 meters road starts descending towards the mountain pasture Mežakla, we leave it and we continue left where also an arrow on TNP pole points us to.
Next follows few minutes of ascent on a cart track, when it ends we continue on a worse, but followable footpath which quickly brings us on the secondary peak of Jerebikovec. From the secondary peak follows an easy descent, and then on northeastern ridge we reach the peak of Jerebikovec, where there is an inscription box with an inscription book and a stamp and from where a nice view opens up on Julian Alps and Karawanks, in good visibility, the view reaches all the way to Carnic and Gailtal Alps and High Tauern.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2019 (December).