Starting point: Praprotno (390 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.1955°N 14.2647°E
Time of walking: 2 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 635 m
Altitude difference (by path): 650 m
Map: Škofjeloško in Cerkljansko hribovje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, and then we continue driving towards Železniki. When the road Škofja Loka - Železniki, first time over a bridge crosses the river Selška Sora, we need to pay attention, because right behind the bridge we park on the right side of the road.
B) From Tolmin or Most na Soči, we drive to Podbrdo, and then we continue driving towards Železniki and Škofja Loka. Only about 100 meters after the settlement Praprotno, right before we cross river Selška Sora, we will on the left side of the road notice a larger macadam parking lot, where we park.
Path description:
From the starting point, we walk few 10 meters by the main road towards Železniki, and then signs for Praprotno and Lubnik point us to the left on a narrower local road, on which we quickly get to the village Praprotno. Through the village we follow rare blazes, and the path which all the time runs on the road, leads on at first still panoramic slopes, from which a nice view is opening up on Lubnik and Planica. Asphalt road for a short time continues through the forest and then it ascends through a grassy meadow, through which increasingly beautiful views opening up. The path ahead leads us through bottom part of the village Sveti Tomaž, where at the crossroad we continue left and we are then still ascending on the more and more panoramic road. With a view on Storžič, Kočna, Grintovec and other peaks in Kamnik Savinja Alps, we then walk also to the upper part of the village, where we step on a panoramic ridge.
When we reach the ridge, we continue left (right 3 minutes, church of St. Tomaž) and with a view on a large part of Škofjeloško hribovje, we walk to the edge of the forest, where there is a marked crossing.
We continue straight in the direction of Lubnik (right Gabrška Gora, Poljane...) and we continue the ascent on a cart track, from which soon a marked footpath branches off to the left. Higher, the footpath returns on a cart track, and then for some time it again leaves it. Higher, after we again step on a cart track, we join the macadam road, on which we walk to homestead Zalubnikar.
Above the homestead the road steeply ascends and it brings us on a saddle, where there is also a marked crossing. We continue left in the direction of Lubnik, on the path which quickly brings us to a macadam road, on which we continue a gentle ascent in an already known direction. 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 we follow on some spots steeper path all the way to the top of Lubnik, peak from which a nice view opens up.
On the way: Tomaž nad Praprotnim (626m)
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