Volovljek - Kranjska reber
Starting point: Volovljek (1029 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.283°N 14.6884°E
Time of walking: 1 h 20 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: easily
Altitude difference: 406 m
Altitude difference (by path): 415 m
Map: Kamniške in Savinjske Alpe 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Kamnik, and then we continue driving in the direction of the mountain pass Črnivec. Only few 100 meters before the mentioned mountain pass we notice signs for Kranjski Rak, which point us sharply left on a narrow and at first also quite steep road. The road higher flattens and then brings us to mountain pass Volovljek, where near the inn Kranjski Rak we also park (parking in front of the inn is only for guests). A little more space for parking is near the inn Štajerski Rak.
B) From Gornji Grad we drive towards Kamnik, after that only few 100 meters after mountain pass Črnivec we continue right in the direction of Kranjski Rak. Further, we follow the description above.
C) From the valley Savinjska dolina at first we drive to Luče, and then we continue driving towards Kamnik. When we come on the mountain pass Volovljek we park on an appropriate place by inn Kranjski Rak (parking in front of the inn is only for guests). A little more space for parking is near the inn Štajerski Rak.
Path description:
From the starting point, we at first walk to mountain pass Volovjek, and then at the crossroad we continue towards the east (direction Štajerski Rak and Kašna planina). The road which is further moderately ascending, quickly brings us to the inn Štajerski Rak, near of which we notice a large parking lot (option of starting point). We continue on the forest road which is further gently to moderately ascending through the forest. From the road which on the north side crosses slopes of Kranjska reber, occasionally a view opens up a little on Savinja side, where we can notice Ojstrica and plateau Dleskovška planota, and a little higher also Raduha. Eventually the road starts turning more and more to the right, where after few minutes of additional walking brings us on a smaller saddle Na Kalu.
Here we leave a wide road and we continue right on a little steeper cart track, on which in 10 minutes of additional walking, we ascend to the shepherd hut on Kašna planina (from the saddle Na Kalu, and to Kašna planina we can ascend also on a newly built road).
From the mountain pasture, we continue on a well visible footpath which is further moderately ascending by panoramic grassy ridge. This increasingly panoramic path, which offers a nice view towards the surrounding hills, we then follow all the way to the peak of Kranjska reber, and we reach it after 20 minutes of walking from the shepherd hut on Kašna planina.
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