Suhi Dol - Sivka (through forest)
Starting point: Suhi Dol (681 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.0502°N 14.2013°E
Path name: through forest
Time of walking: 1 h 30 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 253 m
Altitude difference (by path): 300 m
Map: Škofjeloško in Cerkljansko hribovje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Horjul (to here from Dobrova at Ljubljana or Vrhnika), and then we continue driving towards Vrzdenec, Šentjošt and Gorenja vas. At Vrzdenec the road starts ascending steeper, and then a little further it brings us to hairpin turn, in the middle of which road branches off to the left towards Šentjošt and Smrečje. We continue right on the main road, and it soon brings us on a small saddle, at the end of which road branches off to the right towards the village Samotorica. We continue straight, and the road starts steeply descending and after a short descent it brings us to a hamlet Ljubljanica (bottom part of Butajnova), where we come to the next crossroad. We continue left in the direction of Gorenja vas and we follow the road to Suhi Dol, where we park on an appropriate place.
B) We drive to Polhov Gradec, and then we continue driving towards Gorenja vas. The road towards Gorenja vas we follow to the settlement Suhi Dol, where on the mountain pass, we park on an appropriate place.
C) We drive into the valley Poljanska dolina, more precisely to a roundabout in Gorenja vas, from where we continue towards Lučine and Vrhnika. At the crossroads, we follow an ascending asphalt road in the direction of Horjul and Vrhnika, soon after the settlements Lučine and Dolge Njive we get to the settlement Suhi Dol, where on the mountain pass, we park on an appropriate place.
Path description:
From the mountain pass on Suhi Dol we go on an asphalt road in the direction of Planina nad Horjulom, and soon the asphalt road splits. We continue on a slightly right road which leads us among houses and where we are accompanied by blazes. Higher both roads join, and we continue right and further we are ascending diagonally. Few minutes higher we leave the road and we continue slightly left on a cart track which ascends parallel with the road, and through the forest at the crossings we follow the blazes. The path ahead leads us on the right side of a meadow, where it turns to the left and then through a shorter lane of a forest we ascend to a larger meadow, where we continue by its upper edge. On the other side of the meadow, blazes again point us into a lane of a forest, and when we leave the forest, the footpath on a meadow starts vanishing. We continue in approximately the same direction, only that now we are moderately descending, and soon also the footpath appears again. Lower, we reach an indistinct ridge, where the path leads us past a religious symbol, and we still continue towards the north to northeast. At the religious symbol, we return into a lane of a forest and then we quickly leave it and we continue by the upper edge of a meadow, where also the path which leads past Planina nad Horjulom joins.
We continue straight or before the forest slightly right, where a wide footpath appears. The path ahead leads through the forest, where we walk on and by the ridge of Zlatni vrh, and hill Gabrovo with a quarry we bypass on the right side. Next follows some more of a light descent and past a bigger chapel we reach an asphalt road which at the crossroad we only cross and we continue on a footpath in the direction of a hiking path (left downwards - Lučine, left upwards - some farms, slightly right - Lomovec and Sivka on the road - the road doesn't lead to the top), by which we higher notice few signs with the caption Prijatelji Sivke. After few minutes of ascent the forest ends and to the top we have only a little bit of walking on panoramic upper slope of the mountain.
Right from the peak is situated mountaineering inscription box, and left from the peak inscription box of Prijatelji Sivke (Friends of Sivka).
Description and pictures refer to a condition in June 2020.
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