Tolsti vrh from Gozd village

Ascent:
From the parking place we hike to the crossroads, which is above the village, on the eastern side. While the marked path on Kriška gora goes straight up (towards the N), our route (inscription tells us that we have 2 h 15 min to Tolsti vrh) continues by a comfortable cart road almost horizontally towards the east. All its branches are well marked. Higher, from the cart road deters left a more and more steep path (named "Čez Ježo"), which later brings us out of the woods on quite steep grassy slopes. Crossing them is easy in good conditions, but take care if the slopes are covered with snow or icy! In the middle of those slopes there is a nice bench with a memorial plate (a 5-years old girl lost her life there). From there we keep continuing crossing the slopes and soon reach the edge of a high forest. There the path from Mala Poljana comes around the S ridge (Štajnarca), so we keep left up and continue ascending more steeply. Forested trail is becoming more and more rocky, on a few places there are steep ascent sections. Higher we gain the place where the view on Storžič opens, even higher on the ridge from the right another marked path joins (also from Mala Poljana) and we continue steeply up. Only just below the summit the ascent becomes more gentle again. Easy to medium difficult hike up (T2), 2 h 15 min.

Descent:
This is also a very nice and panoramic part of the hike. The marked path goes mostly by the southern side of the ridge, but on some points it also goes by it and there we encounter nice scenery. From Tolsti vrh we descend towards the west and again climb up a few meters on the fore-summit. Then we continue along the main ridge. The part is steeper and the path is rocky on many places. It can require some additional care if the terrain is icy, one short part of the ascent also goes by a more narrow ridge. But in good conditions the whole descent is still easy. Then towards the Vrata ridge bump the trail goes mostly by the southern side of the ridge and also further to the Hut on Kriška gora it is wide and comfortable. Easy (T2), 1 h.
Finally, we descend from Kriška gora to Gozd village. There are a few trails, the shortest and mostly used (and beaten) is the eastern one. In many turns it descends till above the village, where we close the round tour.