Podbreg - Icmanikova planina
Starting point: Podbreg (720 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4198°N 14.6455°E
Time of walking: 2 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 800 m
Altitude difference (by path): 805 m
Map: Kamniške in Savinjske Alpe 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Luče, and then we continue driving towards the valley Logarska dolina. After Solčava and 300 meters before the landscape park Logarska dolina, we will notice a signs for a parking lot, which point us to the left on a larger parking lot Podbreg, where we park. Turn-off from the main road is nearby the road sign 13.5 km.
B) From Črna na Koroškem over mountain pass Spodnje Sleme we drive in Solčava, and from there we continue right in the direction of valley Logarska dolina. After Solčava and 300 meters before the landscape park Logarska dolina, we will notice a signs for a parking lot, which point us to the left on a larger parking lot Podbreg, where we park. Turn-off from the main road is nearby the road sign 13.5 km.
C) Over mountain pass Pavličev Vrh we drive to Slovenia, and then we continue driving towards the valley Logarska dolina. When we get to a crossroad, where a road branches off to the right in landscape park Logarska valley, we continue straight, and after 300 meters right on a larger parking lot for motorhomes, where we park.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the main road towards the valley Logarska dolina, and few meters after we over the bridge cross a stream Jezera we continue left on a macadam road. Macadam road quickly brings us to a second bridge, where after the stream Črna (stream Črna is second source of Savinja) we continue right, at first still on a macadam road which quickly changes into a wide cart track. The path ahead leads us on a steep cart track which at the crossings we follow in the direction, where continues the "main" cart track. Higher, at the crossing at an altitude of approximately 1200 meters we continue on a right cart track which then crosses slopes between Icmanikova and Logarska peč towards the right. Cart track soon ends, and from the end of the cart track we continue on a worse footpath or a deer path which still in the same direction crosses the slopes. After less than 5 minutes of a diagonal ascent we reach another cart track (to here possible also on the mentioned cart track), which is in the last part steeply ascending on some sort of a ridge and we reach it near its end. From the end of the cart track (end of the cart track is at an altitude of approximately 1350 to 1400 meters) we continue on a visible footpath which crosses slopes towards the right, and soon the footpath joins an old marked path, on which we ascend to the gully, where abandoned marked path steeply ascends by the gully. Few minutes we are steeply ascending, after we step out from the gully we continue slightly right, where we notice one more faded blaze, and footpath here ends. We continue through the clearing to the nearby cottage Icmanikov stan, where we reach a marked path Plesnikova planina - Strelovec.
After the cottage we step on a newer cart track, from which soon slightly to the right, a marked path branches off, and we continue on a cart track, because footpath in the upper part is impassable due to branches, which was left here when they made nearby forest road. On the cart track in few minutes we ascend to the mountain pasture Icmanikova planina, where there is a marked crossing and from where a beautiful view opens up.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2016 (July).
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