Praproče - Polhograjska Gora (Sveti Lovrenc) (steep path)
Starting point: Praproče (549 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.0614°N 14.2923°E
Path name: steep path
Time of walking: 45 min
Difficulty: partly demanding marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 275 m
Altitude difference (by path): 280 m
Map: Ljubljana - okolica 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Polhov Gradec (to here from Horjul or Dobrova), and then we continue driving towards Gorenja vas. In the village Briše we continue right in the direction of Praproče and we continue driving on narrower and relatively steep road. Soon after the chapel, which we notice on the left side of the road, we will get to a bigger hayrack by which we notice mountain signposts for Polhograjska Gora. At the starting point, there aren't any parking spots.
Path description:
On and by the hayrack, we notice signs for Gora, which point us to the right on a wide and at first moderately steep cart track. Cart track or a worse road soon entirely flattens and it brings us to the smaller crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Sveti Lovrenc. Cart track then narrows a little more and then it brings us on grassy slopes, where it gradually starts turning more and more to the right. After a short ascent, we step into the forest, where we join the path from a little lower starting point. We continue straight on a marked path - cart track, and a little higher it joins the forest road.
We continue left in the direction of demanding path (left downwards Praproče on the road, straight Sveti Lovrenc easier approach) and we continue the ascent on an increasingly steep path. The path which mostly runs through a pine forest, higher ascends even steeper and crosses a short exposed slope (mainly in wet great risk of slipping). Higher, the path slightly flattens and passes on the ridge of Polhograjska Gora. Ahead path passes out of the forest and after a shorter further ascent brings us to the wall of the church of St. Lovrenc. Here with the help of few footholds and holds, we climb the mentioned walls and we step on a panoramic peak.
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