Završnica (Pri žagi) - Smokuški vrh
Starting point: Završnica (Pri žagi) (890 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4108°N 14.1915°E
Time of walking: 1 h
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 232 m
Altitude difference (by path): 250 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lesce, and then we follow the signs for Žirovnica. Further, we drive on the old road towards Jesenice, on which we drive to Žirovnica, where we go right, further we follow the signs for Završnica and Valvasorjev dom. When the road towards the mountain hut Valvasorjev dom turns left, we go straight and we continue driving through the valley of Završnica. On the mentioned road, we drive to a marked crossroad at an altitude 890 meters, where we park on an appropriate place by the crossroad.
B) We drive to Jesenice, and then we continue driving on the old road towards Lesce. At the end of the settlement Polje we turn left and then we follow the signs for Završnica and Valvasorjev dom. When the road towards the mountain hut Valvasorjev dom turns left, we go straight and we continue driving through the valley of Završnica. On the mentioned road, we drive to a marked crossroad at an altitude 890 meters, where we park on an appropriate place by the crossroad.
Path description:
From the crossroad, we continue on the right road in the direction of the cottage Sankaška koča (slightly left cottage Tinčkova koča, Dom pri izviru Završnice and Dom na Zelenici), where only a little further we over the bridge cross the stream Završnica. Further, we are ascending diagonally, and meanwhile we cross also few streams. Higher, the path for some time slightly descends, and then it moderately ascends to a saddle Kališča, where we reach a marked path Begunje - Poljška planina.
On the mentioned saddle we leave the road and we continue slightly right in the direction of Sveti Peter (left Poljška planina and Roblekov dom, straight downwards unmarked path to Begunje through Blatnica gorge) and we start ascending parallel with the macadam road which higher, a little before it ends we also cross. Few 10 strides ahead we leave the marked path which leads further towards Sveti Peter and starts descending and we continue walking slightly right on an unmarked cart track which goes diagonally towards the right. At the nearby crossing, we choose the bottom cart track, and then follows few more crossing. When the crossing ends, cart track passes into a forest path, and there we in few minutes ascend on a panoramic peak.
Description refers to condition in November 2019, and pictures are from October and November of the same year.
On the way: Kališča (980m)
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