Poljane nad Škofjo Loko - Lubnik (via Gabrška gora)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, and then we continue driving towards Gorenja vas and Žiri. When we get to Poljane nad Škofjo Loko, at the traffic light crossroad we turn right towards the center of the settlement. From the crossroad, we drive good 200 meters and then we park on a parking lot by the cemetery.
B) From Polhov Gradec or Horjul, Žiri or Cerkno we drive to Gorenja vas in the valley Poljanska dolina, and then we continue driving towards Škofja Loka. When we get to Poljane nad Škofjo Loko, at the traffic light crossroad we turn left towards the center of the settlement. From the crossroad, we drive good 200 meters and then we park on a parking lot by the cemetery.

Path description:
From the cemetery we on a sidewalk return a little back, or more precisely to the second turn-off of hiking path on Gabrška gora (first turn-off of the path leads on the road). From the second turn-off we start ascending on a narrower asphalt road which leads us past few houses, and then before the last house we continue straight on a cart track which through a panoramic meadow ascends to the other asphalt road, where we join the first path on Gabrška gora.
For a short time, we are ascending on the asphalt road, and then signs for Gabrška gora point us to the left on a marked footpath which starts ascending through the forest. Through the forest the path leads us past several crossings, and we follow the blazes or signs for Gabrška gora. Higher, the path brings us by the upper edge of a panoramic meadow, from where a nice view opens up on part of the valley Poljanska dolina and Polhograjsko hribovje. Above the mentioned part, the path for some time returns into the forest and then at the ascent through the next meadow a nice view opens up on the left side, where we clearly see Blegoš and few neighboring peaks. When the path again passes into the forest, from the right joins the path from the hamlet Smoldno, and we continue straight, past a religious symbol, on the path which continues on a cart track. From the cart track, we soon go left and then follows few minutes of a steeper ascent and the path brings us to the church of St. Primož and Felicijan on Gabrška gora.
From the church, we continue on a panoramic meadow, after that marked path passes into a lane of a forest, after which we step on the road which we follow right in the direction of Lubnik. Further, the road leads us past individual houses in the settlement Gabrška Gora, and at the crossroads, we follow the blazes, or we go slightly left to homestead Pešar. We bypass the homestead on the left side and we continue on a cart track, and at the crossing, we go left. Further, we ascend through a panoramic meadow, and then the path brings us into the forest, through which it continues on a ridge and occasionally also on slopes of Lovričkov vrh, and later Plešavnikov vrh. Because the path through the forest has few crossings, we carefully follow the blazes, and the path with some shorter ascents and descents brings us to the road which we follow slightly to the left (right homestead Čude and Plešavnik, and the road descends into Sopotniška grapa).
The path ahead leads us on the road which past NOB monument brings us to a crossroad on an area named Vrhovčevo, and the crossroad is located at an altitude 834 meters.
From the mentioned crossroad, we continue right (left Zapreval and Stari vrh) and we continue on a gentle macadam road which on the right side bypasses Vrhovčev grič and Tavčarjev vrh, and then past the abandoned homestead Dolinček brings us on slopes of the peak Pleše, which road also bypasses on the right side. The road then leads us also past two NOB monuments, and then at the smaller crossroad we continue slightly left in the direction of homestead Pri Zalubnikarju. About 100 meters ahead we get to a small saddle, where we join the path from the settlement Praprotno.
We continue right in the direction of Lubnik, on the path which quickly brings us to other macadam road, on which we continue a gentle ascent in an already known direction towards Lubnik. Macadam road then goes into the forest, where crosses slopes towards the right. A little higher from the right also the marked path from Breznica pod Lubnikom joins, and we continue slightly left on a worse road, partly already cart track. We continue the ascent on a worse and gradually also increasingly steep cart track, and we leave it as well and we continue the ascent on a marked hiking path (because of numerous cart tracks on some spots the orientation is a little harder). Higher from the right few more mountain paths join, and occasionally steeper path, we follow all the way to the top of Lubnik, peak from which a nice view opens up.
Poljane - Sveti Primož 1:20, Sveti Primož - Vrhovčevo 1:00, Vrhovčevo - Lubnik 1:25.

On the way: Sveti Primož in Felicijan na Gabrški gori (830m), Vrhovčevo (834m)