Platak (P3 - Stari breg) (06/2021)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 15.06 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,430 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,430 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,112 ft
- TrailRank
- 36
- Min elevation
- 3,572 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 2 hours 15 minutes
- Time
- 3 hours 46 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3454
- Uploaded
- June 12, 2021
- Recorded
- June 2021
near Platak, Primorsko-Goranska (Hrvatska)
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Itinerary description
The trail starts from the huge parking at Platak center, continuing on an asphalt road and then quickly changing to terrain. Even though most of this trail is a slow ascent, you don't really notice it and it's a fairly easy ride even for beginners. Beware of a few descents where the gravel is somewhat larger than usual; ride carefully here.
The hardest part of the route starts at the junction at 9km, where you take a right, and then make a loop. Whichever way you wish to enter the loop,. it's going to be an ascent - a bit steep in spots - and then a descent right to the exit of the loop. From there, you take the same way back whence you came.
Due to the ascents from the 9km - 12km mark, this trail does require some good stamina and power in the legs. Even if the official BikeRijeka brochure designates it as "easy", it's not really that family friendly. Expect a decent workout.
Waypoints
Car park
Intersection
3,736 ft
Intersection #3
Continue straight here.
Intersection
3,754 ft
Intersection #4
Continue straight here.
Intersection
3,815 ft
Intersection #5
Continue straight here. Note: at this junction, when you're passing here on your way back, if you're not too tired you can take a right turn (on the upwards slope) for a more challenging way to the starting point.
Intersection
3,777 ft
Intersection #8
Continue straight here.
Intersection
3,776 ft
Intersection #9
Take a right here to go into the loop. Once you take the right, there's again an intersection where you can choose which way to navigate the loop. Either way, you're first be facing an incline. and then a rewarding way down. I suggest entering the loop on the right side, beside the concrete tank. The trail should be a bit easier this way.
Intersection
4,101 ft
Intersection #11
Make a U-turn here. The hardest part of the trail is over, now you'll be making your way back mostly going downwards.
Monument
4,047 ft
Monument
A monument in the memory of Viktor Lenac, a Croatian freedom fighter killed in these woods by the fascist invaders in 1942.
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