Cerkno - Škofje (on unmarked path)

Access to starting point:
From the road Idrija - Tolmin we drive to Cerkno, where we park on one of the parking lots in the center or on the periphery of the town (best near the church of St. Anne).

Route description:
From the church of St. Anne in Cerkno, past the snack bar Okrepčevalnica pr' Jušku and store Merkur we walk to the street Pot v Strano, where there is the beginning of the marked path which leads towards Planina pri Cerknem, Škofje and Ermanovec. We go on the mentioned street upwards, and after a few meters we continue on the right road which starts ascending steeper. The road at the last house ends, and we continue on a cart track which is diagonally ascending. Blazes soon lead left, and the path brings us to a panoramic grassy slope, from which a nice view opens up towards Cerkno and surrounding hills.
We continue further on a cart track, and at the crossings we follow the signs of the mountain path number 5. A moderately steep path slowly distances itself from Cerkno, and with nice views on surroundings it quickly brings us to an asphalt road which we only cross. We continue the ascent in the same direction, and further we ascend on a worse cart track, on which in a few minutes of additional walking we arrive in the village Planina pri Cerknem.
Through the village, in the middle of which stands the church of St. John the Baptist, we walk on a diagonally ascending cart track which several times crosses the asphalt road, and in doing so we go through several yards. Above the bottom part of the village we arrive at a macadam road, on which in a few minutes we walk to a smaller crossroad. We continue left and ascend on a narrower asphalt road which leads towards the "last" house, and the asphalt road we leave still before we get to the "last" house and we go left on at first a wide unmarked cart track. When a little higher the cart track ends, we continue straight, where through the hay meadow we notice a footpath, on which we cross to the entrance into the forest, where the footpath becomes more distinct, and on it we ascend to the western ridge of Škofje, where from the left another worse unmarked footpath also joins (the footpath starts above the settlement Čeplez).
We continue on the ridge and higher we cross a marked road. Above the road the path still leads on the ridge and steeply ascends. A little higher an unmarked path from Planina pri Cerknem joins from the right, and we follow the steep path ever higher; when the path flattens, in a few dozen steps we walk to a viewpoint, from which a nice view opens towards Planina pri Cerknem and the surrounding hills, and where we return to the marked path.
We continue slightly left and on a panoramic grassy slope we slightly to moderately ascend. Higher we approach the forest, and blazes a little ahead lead left into a thin forest, through which we continue to the nearby peak.

Along the route: Planina pri Cerknem (564m)

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