Zazid - Golič (direct way)
Starting point: Zazid (390 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.4994°N 13.9315°E
Path name: direct way
Time of walking: 1 h 45 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 500 m
Altitude difference (by path): 525 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Koper we go to the exit Črni Kal. From Črni Kal we continue driving on the old road towards the coast, and we are driving there only to the next little bigger crossroad, where we turn left in the direction of border crossing Sočerga. A short time we drive on the mentioned road, and then signs for Predloka, Loka, Bezovica, Podpeč, Zanigrad, Zazid and Rakitovec point us to the left on a little narrower local road. Further, we drive to Bezovica, where at the smaller crossroad in the middle of the village we continue left in the direction of Podpeč. Further, we drive through Podpeč (road through the mentioned settlement is very narrow) to the village Zazid, where we park on a parking lot by the sports field.
Path description:
From the sports field we walk to the village, where we come to the unmarked crossroad, by which there are situated bench and tap with water. Here we continue right and we follow slightly ascending road to the upper part of the village, where we notice the first signs for Golič and Lipnik. We again continue right and we continue the ascent on an asphalt road which leads towards the nearby water catchment. Already few 10 meters before water catchment, we come on next unmarked crossroad, where we continue on the right macadam road. Macadam road then brings us to a smaller crossroad, by which there is situated next water trough. This time we continue on the left wider road, by which we quickly notice a blaze. For a short time, we continue on a bad road, after that marked shortcut branches off to the right. The path quickly returns on the road and already after few steps again splits into two parts. Wherever we continue, the path will quickly bring us to a railway track and decaying railway station Zazid. We carefully cross a railway track, which leads towards Pula, and on the other side of it we get to a marked crossing (to here we need approximately 20 minutes).
We continue right in the direction of Lipnik and Golič (left Brežec and Kraški rob) and we continue on a gentle cart track which is ascending diagonally towards the right. Higher beautiful views start to open up towards the sea and Istra, and we continue on a gently sloping path, which returns into the forest and it brings us to a marked crossing.
From the crossing, we go left in the direction of Kraški rob and Golič (straight Lipnik) and we continue the ascent on a wide, but unmarked path, on which in 10 minutes of additional walking, we get to Kraški rob. Here worse footpath branches off to the right, on which we can in 1 minute get to the vantage point (a view opens up on Golič and part of Primorska), otherwise we continue straight on a cart track which starts barely noticeably descending towards the plateau Zalipnik. Cart track, that is gently descending through the forest, quickly brings us to an unmarked crossing, where we continue left (slightly right cart track which continues by southwestern part of plateau Zalipnik and later joins the marked path from Lipnik towards Nadglavinjak) at first still slightly downwards. Further, the path brings us out of the forest and starts gently ascending on partly grassy plateau. A little higher we step on a worse road, and we only cross it and few minutes we continue the ascent on easier pathless terrain. "Path" ahead leads us towards the northeast, and on pathless terrain we walk approximately 10 to 15 minutes, and then we get to a marked path which leads from Kojnik towards Golič (part of the path on pathless terrain we can avoid if when we step on a worse road we continue left and then before the road passes into the forest, we continue right on a cart track which is ascending by the edge of the forest. Cart track higher flattens, and then joins the marked path Kojnik - Golič (the latter path is approximately 20 minutes longer)).
Wherever we reached marked path which leads from Kojnik towards Golič we continue right, and with nice views on Slavnik and part of Primorska on at first gentle, after that on a little steeper path we ascend to some sort of "cross" on Golič.
From "cross" we slightly descend, and then in a moderate ascent we reach higher, but less distinct peak Golič.
From the peak with a "cross" and to Golič we have good 20 minutes of walking.
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