Potoče - Planinska koča Iskra na Jakobu (by road)

Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Kranj - east, and then we continue driving in the direction of Jezersko. When we get to Preddvor we leave the main road and we continue driving left, and after few 10 meters, opposite the company Jelovica we continue right in the direction of village Potoče, St. Jakob and Potoška gora and lake Črnava. Further, the road leads through the settlement Hrib, above which we get to a crossroad, where we continue straight (left Hotel Bor and lake Črnava, right Senior citizens home Preddvor. Next follows a good 100 meters of a light ascent to the chapel, where the road turns right, and we are driving there past few more houses, and then before Senior citizens home we turn left on a larger macadam parking lot.
B) From highway Jesenice - Ljubljana we go to the exit Kranj - zahod and at the first crossroad, we continue left. Further, we drive through the underpass below the highway, and then we get to a roundabout, from where we continue driving in the direction of Golnik. The path ahead leads us through the settlement Mlaka pri Kranju, and at the end of the settlement, we continue right in the direction of the settlement Srakovlje. Next follows driving through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela to Zgornja Bela, where we continue right towards Preddvor. At the end of the Preddvor, only few 10 meters before the road joins main road Zgornje Jezersko - Kranj, we continue left in the direction of village Potoče, St. Jakob and Potoška gora and lake Črnava. Further, the road leads through the settlement Hrib, above which we get to a crossroad, where we continue straight (left Hotel Bor and lake Črnava, right Senior citizens home Preddvor. Next follows a good 100 meters of a light ascent to the chapel, where the road turns right, and we are driving there past few more houses, and then before Senior citizens home we turn left on a larger macadam parking lot.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the macadam road which after a little less than 10 minutes brings us to a smaller crossroad, where the road crosses the marked path which leads from Senčnica Josipine Turnograjske towards Planinska koča Iskra na Jakobu. From here road short time still leads through the forest and then we get to the edge of a smaller clearing, where there is a bee house.
We continue straight (left road soon ends and changes into a cart track) on the road which for a short time crosses slopes towards the right, and then turns left and starts ascending steeper. Higher, the road several times crosses marked and some unmarked path and it ascends in few hairpin turns. After few hairpin turns, we get to the left turn, in the middle of which a newer cart track branches off to the right, and from there soon the path branches off to the left, which leads towards Babe, Mihčeva kopišča and marked path past a source below Potoška gora towards St. Jakob.
We continue on the road which is still ascending towards the left and then it brings us to the spot, where from the road in the direction of straight about a minute long cart track branches off towards the church of St. Jakob and mountain hut Dom Iskra na Jakobu (right Potoška gora).

Trip can be extended to: Mihčeva kopišča ( 20 min) , Baba ( 45 min) , Potoška gora ( 35 min) , Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu (2 h 15 min) , Javorov vrh , Dom na Kališču (3 h 35 min) , Cjanovca (3 h 5 min) , Srednji vrh (3 h 20 min)