Pekel 43.5 km
1060 m 2:30
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no. |
m |
km |
direction |
1 |
305 |
0 |
start in front of the post office in the center of Borovnica; turn on the main
road leading across the town towards Pekel, direction S |
2 |
310 |
2,14 |
going under the railway, which does a big turn
here in Borovnica valley; right after the railway cont. straight |
3 |
315 |
3,00 |
right and uphill at the
crossing of four roads in the village of
Brezovica (past the house with no. 4 on the left) |
4 |
365 |
3,49 |
going past some farms |
5 |
380 |
3,82 |
the end of asphalt |
6 |
425 |
4,60 |
left
at the crossing (warning sign "obmocje meveda" = the
bear territory) |
7 |
676 |
8,00 |
take second branch on right at bigger crossing (direction S) |
8 |
670 |
8,68 |
right at smaller crossing and
soon... |
9 |
670 |
8,78 |
left & straight after crossing of
Borovniscica river |
10 |
675 |
9,21 |
left
at the crossing |
11 |
690 |
9,77 |
right & straight |
12 |
785 |
10,85 |
side branch on the right; cont. straight;
leveling coming soon |
13 |
815 |
11,30 |
leveling |
14 |
780 |
11,74 |
asphalt and entering the village of Kozljek |
15 |
780 |
12,27 |
right on wider asphalt road |
16 |
700 |
13,78 |
right in the middle of Dobec village, where a road mirror is |
17 |
680 |
14,34 |
macadam and... |
18 |
680 |
14,47 |
there is a spring little further on the right;
cont. on macadam |
19 |
665 |
15,02 |
right on the THIRD cart track in
a row, which slowly turns right into the woods |
20 |
645 |
15,22 |
right follow main cart track |
21 |
650 |
15,39 |
left on more bitten cart track |
22 |
625 |
15,76 |
getting out of the woods on a meadow |
23 |
595 |
16,65 |
follow more bitten cart track (right) |
24 |
590 |
17,08 |
right on a nice macadam road |
25 |
600 |
17,57 |
right at the crossing |
26 |
700 |
20,02 |
right at a bigger triangular crossing |
27 |
705 |
20,60 |
left
at another triangular crossing |
28 |
700 |
20,99 |
right on main road |
29 |
665 |
23,22 |
smaller cabins an the left |
30 |
660 |
23,56 |
side branch on the left, cont. straight |
31 |
670 |
23,66 |
left
on branch of macadam |
32 |
670 |
24,66 |
left
over known river (no. 9) |
33 |
670 |
24,73 |
left
at known crossing (no. 8), |
34 |
676 |
25,39 |
sharp right uphill at the bigger crossing (no. 7) |
35 |
740 |
26,03 |
left
in direction of Krimska jama (=cave) |
36 |
810 |
28,56 |
right on forest cart track just before a sharp right turn (road ends
after 200 m of descent) |
37 |
810 |
28,74 |
straight, follow the forest cart track |
38 |
810 |
28,95 |
left
on a cart track |
39 |
810 |
29,13 |
right & straight on LESS
bitten way, which goes between two pine trees (left leg
soon disappears in the bush); after 50 m there is a mark "P"
on a tree; ride in E direction |
40 |
810 |
29,25 |
on the right pine tree, there is a red &
white triangle sign |
41 |
800 |
29,65 |
left
towards Rakitna on main road Rakitna - Cerknica |
42 |
860 |
30,55 |
left
on a side road – after a longer straight section on the right turn
there is a branch of a side macadam road and there is also a "no
traffic" sign |
43 |
825 |
31,10 |
after a short descent cont. straight at the
bottom and uphill (past two side branches on both sides) |
44 |
825 |
31,42 |
past a side branch on the left |
45 |
885 |
32,56 |
just before the road descends to its end,
there is a path on the left. leading to a small meadow on the crest with
magnificent view over Pekel gorge – you can walk there to have a
look |
46 |
880 |
32,66 |
take right one among three cart tracks at the end of the road (it is marked with
triangle signs and soon becomes narrower) |
47 |
920 |
33,11 |
getting out on the open |
48 |
865 |
33,63 |
straight and down the hill |
49 |
830 |
34,21 |
straight past a bench on the left and into the
woods; former cart track turns sharply right towards Rakitna |
50 |
840 |
34,53 |
beginning of a quite rough DH - all the way
down to a wider macadam road |
51 |
690 |
35,67 |
right on the macadam and right away on
the left lower leg |
52 |
560 |
37,24 |
left
at triangular crossing |
53 |
560 |
37,59 |
left
at the crossing |
54 |
525 |
38,26 |
right at a sharp left turn on a wider forest trail, called also Kamikaze; at
the beginning up and down an then a nice DH follows with steep and soft
last section |
55 |
345 |
39,89 |
left
on asphalt in the village of Nizevec and down to main road on which you
descent to... |
56 |
315 |
40,51 |
known crossing (no. 3), where you turn right
and return to the starting point |
57 |
305 |
43,51 |
Post Office in Borovnica |