Topol - Goljek (on west ridge)
Starting point: Topol (650 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.0936°N 14.3695°E
Path name: on west ridge
Time of walking: 30 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 159 m
Altitude difference (by path): 165 m
Map: Ljubljana - okolica 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From Ljubljana, Kranj or Vodice we drive to Medvode, from there we continue driving towards Sora. At the crossroad at the beginning of Sora, immediately behind the small bridge we turn left in the direction of Katarina and village Trnovec. Further, we drive through the valley of Ločnica towards Katarina (Topol). Higher, the road rises above the mentioned valley and it brings us to the beginning of the village Topole, where we park on a large parking lot by the primary school.
B) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, from there we continue driving towards Sora. At the end of the Sora we turn right in the direction of Katarina and village Trnovec. Further, we drive through the valley of Ločnica towards Katarina (Topol). Higher, the road rises above the mentioned valley and it brings us to the beginning of the village Topole, where we park on a large parking lot by the primary school.
C) We leave Primorska highway at exit Brezovica, and then we continue driving in the direction of Dobrova and Polhov Gradec. Further, we drive through the valley of Gradaščica, and the main road towards Polhov Gradec we follow to a smaller crossroad, where a road towards villages Osredek, Topol (Katarina) and Belo branches off to the right (turn-off from the main road is located little before the beginning of the village Hrastenice). When we get to the village Topole at first road towards the village Belo branches off sharply to the left, and a little further signs for Medvode point us slightly to the left, on the road which gradually starts descending. Before the road starts steeply descending towards the valley of Ločnica, we get to primary school, where we park on a large parking lot.
Path description:
From the parking lot at the primary school on an asphalt road, we ascend to the inn Dobnikar, and from there we continue on the asphalt road, that runs on some sort of the ridge, we then get to the next crossroad, where we continue slightly right in the direction of village Belo, Grmada and Tošč.
On the road, we walk for approximately 10 minutes, and then we leave the road and we continue slightly right in the direction of Grmada. Further, we continue on at first a wide cart track which crosses slopes without large changes in altitude. After few minutes of additional walking from the cart track relatively steep footpath branches off to the left on which we continue the ascent. After few minutes, the steepness decreases and the path brings us on a smaller saddle, where we continue sharply left, where on one of the trees we notice a caption Goljek, which points us on a less beaten footpath, marked with black - yellow color. This all the time marked, but in parts hard to follow path, we then follow all the way to 809 meters high peak, which we reach after good 10 minutes of walking from the spot, when we left wide path which leads towards Tošč and Grmada.
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