Vitovlje (Križišče) - Kopitnik (via Hunting cottage LD Lijak)

Access to the starting point:
From the expressway Vipava - Nova Gorica take the exit Selo and follow the road towards the villages Črniče and Šempas. When you reach the village Vitovlje, pay attention, because in the middle of the village you will leave the main road and continue driving in the direction of the farm Maloščevo (the exit is marked). Continue through the village on a narrow and steep road, which leads you higher up to a signboard saying "Vitovska krožna pot". Continue to the left past the last houses on the increasingly steep road, which turns into a macadam road only slightly higher up, along which you park (the most suitable parking place is between the fourth and fifth stations of the Way of the Cross).

Path description:
From the starting point, called Križišče, we continue along the deteriorating macadam road, which after a few minutes of walking leads us to a well-marked crossroads, where a marked trail branches off to the left towards Trpinovišče, the memorial plaque and Vodice. Continue along the right path, which leads past the stations of the Stations of the Cross to the next well-marked crossroads near Vitovski vrh. Turn right again and follow the deteriorating road, which here finally turns into cart track, to the viewpoint on which the church stands.
From the top, descend back to the crossroads and then continue the ascent towards Čavna and Sekulak along the old Napoleon route. Soon you reach the next crossroads, where you continue left, this time in the direction of the natural window Skozno and the hunting lodge (right Cirque and Čaven, sharp right St Lucy).
From the crossroads onwards we start to climb crosswise to the left, where the path leads us first past overhanging rocks, and a little further on past a smaller natural window. A few minutes higher up, the path splits again, and we continue right from the crossroads towards the hunting hut (straight ahead Skozno). There are a few minutes of moderate climbing, and then the path climbs more steeply for a short time and passes through a rockier world. The path quickly becomes level and almost imperceptibly the path leading from the natural window Skozno towards Kopitnik joins us from the left.
Continue to the right, following the waymarked path, which widens a little further into the narrower cart track, and after a nearby waymarked crossroads joins the wide cart track, which is followed to the right. There is a short climb up the cart track, then, at the hunting lodge LD Lijak, it widens into a road, which is quickly followed up to the paragliders' airstrip at Kopitnik.
Starting point - Vitovski hrib 30 minutes, Vitovski hrib - Kopitnik 1:55.

On the way: Vitovski hrib (604m), Lovska koča LD Lijak (910m)

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