Top 4 Mountain Passes in Osrednjeslovenska

A beautiful summit with a small but impressive cross. The climb from the southeast is challenging, but worth it. You'll encounter a few ibexes around the mountain.

Great Hut, expensive, newly renovated.

The hut stands at the top of the Kokrski sedlo between Grintovec and Kalška gora, which is also a pass between the valleys of Kamniška Bistrica and Kokra. It is named after the brothers Žiga Zois (1747-1819), mentor and patron of Slovenian writers, naturalist, geologist and mineralogist, and botanist Karel Zois (1756-1799). The first hut was built in 1897 by the German-Austrian Mountaineering Association. After the First World War, it was taken over by the SPD, which thoroughly restored it. After the Second World War, it was managed by PD Kamnik. The hut eventually became too small and the tidiness was no longer adequate, so in 1966 it was renovated and enlarged. In 1967, a freight cable car was pulled from Konec in Kamniška Bistrica. In 1986, water was installed from a 900m distant spring and this year they also started building a new large extension. The expansion and renovation of the hut was completed in 1988, and on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Kamnik branch of the SPD, the enlarged and renovated hut was opened on 18 September 1988. PD Kamnik has done a lot in recent years to ensure that the cottage also meets strict environmental criteria, so as part of bilateral cooperation between Austria and Slovenia, it equipped it with a treatment plant and photovoltaic generator and wind farm to replace electricity, which replaces the diesel generator. The cottage is open from mid-June to mid-October. View: Due to the nearby peaks, the view is wider only to the east and west. In the east, we first see a torrent ravine below the Kokrski sedlo between the walls of Jurjevac on the north and Kalška gora on the south side of the ravine, and for a while we also follow the upper part of the path from Kamniška Bistrica; to the southeast, a view of Velika planina opens up over the Kamniška Bistrica valley; on the south side there is a wall of Kalška gora and the famous Pasja glava nearby; to the west, the view descends over Suhadolnikova planina into the Kokra valley, above which Storžič rises; on the north side we have a beautiful view of Grintovec, and on the left we can also see part of the southern ridge of Kočna.

Koča stoji na prisojni strani tik pod grebenom Kamniškega sedla (1903 m), ki povezuje Planjavo in Brano. Nekateri uporabljajo za sedlo tudi ime Jermanova vrata, ki je nastalo v času rokovnjačev. Kamniška podružnica SPD je začela s pripravami za gradnjo koče že leta 1902, dogradili in odprli pa so jo 12. avgusta 1906. PD Kamnik je leta 1953 kočo obnovilo in prizidalo jedilnico, leta 1955 po postavilo tovorno žičnico; ker pa je koča postala pretesna in tudi ni več ustrezala sodobnejšim zahtevam obiskovalcev, so se odločili, da bodo zgradili novo. V začetku maja 1981 so začeli rušiti staro kočo in graditi novo; odprli so jo 23. julija 1983 ob 90-letnici Kamniške podružnice SPD. Leta 2012 je bila prenovljena notranjost koče skupaj z novo kuhinjo, ki dosega sodobne standarde. Preskrba z energijo je vezana na fotovoltajične celice, vetrni agregat in pomožni dizelski agregat. Oskrba vode je vezana na kapnico in dezinfekcijo preko UV filtra. Odpadne vode se prečistijo v čistilni napravi. Koča je odprta vsak dan od sredine junija do oktobra, v ostalih mesecih ob sobotah in nedeljah (dežurstvo članov PD Kamnik - strežejo le pijačo). Razgled: Z vrha sedla se odpira razgled na vse strani. Na vzhodu se v bližini dviga zahodno ostenje Planjave, levo za njo pa se kaže Ojstrica; na jugu vidimo v bližini krnico med Planjavo in Brano, domačini ji pravijo Pastirci, za njo pa obširna gozdnata pobočja, ki padajo v dolino Kamniške Bistrice; na drugi strani doline se dvigajo vzhodna gozdnata pobočja Krvavca; na zahodu se v bližini pne Brana, desno za njo pa je nad Kotliči Turska gora; najlepši je pogled proti severu: pod nami je obširno območje Okrešlja, nad njim pa se dviga Mrzla gora; lepo vidimo slap Rinka, ki pada čez skalni prag; malo desno pod Okrešljem se nam pokaže celotna Logarska dolina, za njo vidimo Olševo, desno nad dolino skupino Krofičke, levo pa gorski greben nad Matkovim kotom. Zanimivejše ture: Planjava (2392 m) 2 h; Ojstrica (2350 m) po poti pod Planjavo ter čez Lučko Babo in Škarje 4 h; Brana (2252 m) 1 h 30; Turska gora (2251 m) čez Kotliče 2 h 30; Skuta (2532 m) čez Tursko goro 4 h.

Beautiful winding descent on road 225, not always the best asphalt, to Stahovica. Little to moderate traffic. More information: https://www.quaeldich.de/paesse/crnivec/

The Volovljek Pass at 1029 m above sea level is a small alpine pass in Lower Styria in the Kamnik Alps. Small, quiet street, note the opening hours of the restaurant on the pass. Unfortunately closed when we arrived. More information: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner_Alpen and https://www.quaeldich.de/paesse/volovljek/

The third highest peak in KSA Mountain

Kamniška koča is situated just a few meters below the Kamniški saddle, located between Brano and Planjava. The hut which is open in the expanded summer season also has a winter room. For a better view we have to climb to a three-minute remote saddle from which we see the Logar Valley and in the hollow of only this waterfall Rinka with its Eagle's Nest. It is nice to see the mountain Mrzlo, Brano and Planjavo. To the hut, which is part of the Slovenian hiking trail, a freight lifts leads to the transport of food and other necessary items for the supply of huts.