Sovodenj - Škofje (through Miklavževa grapa)

Access to the starting point:
a) First, drive to Gorenjska vas in the Poljane valley (reachable from Škofja Loka, the new bypass road that bypasses Škofja Loka Horjul or Polhov Gradec), then continue driving towards Žire and Cerkno. After Trebija and just before the bridge over the Poljane Sora River, leave the main road towards Žire and turn right towards Cerkno. Continue along a slightly more winding road, which quickly leads to the settlement Sovodenj, where you park in the centre of the town.
b) Drive to Žiri (to get here from Vrhnika or Logatec), then continue driving towards Škofja Loka. Before Trebija, turn left onto the road towards Cerkno. Continue along a slightly curvier road, which quickly leads to Sovodenj, where you park between a shop and a fire station.
c) Drive to Cerkno and from there continue in the direction of Škofja Loka. Continue along the ascending road, which takes you through Planina pri Cerknem, along a winding road to the pass Kladje, from where the road begins to descend towards Sovodnje. When you arrive in Sovodenj, park in the parking lot in the middle of the village.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the asphalted road towards Ermanovec and Cerkno. After a few minutes of climbing along the main road, you will reach a marked crossroads where the road to Ermanovec branches off to the right. Take the road that runs alongside the picturesque stream and after a few minutes of further walking, you will reach the next crossroads.
Continue straight ahead (Ermanovec on the right) on the road that continues along the aforementioned stream. The road then crosses the stream via a small bridge and leads us past a small hamlet to a marked crossroads.
Continue along the road (left Ermanovec scenic route) which you follow for only a few more 10 m to a nearby right-hand bend. At the beginning of the bend, just before the road crosses the stream, leave it and continue your ascent along the marked mountain path, which begins to climb gently through Miklavževo grapo. The path continues to climb along the edge of the stream for some time, then turns right and climbs more steeply. The well-marked path then crosses the cart track a few times and joins it higher up. There is a slightly steeper climb for a few minutes on cart track, which emerges from the woods onto a grassy slope, which also leads to the road. Continue right through a small hamlet and the road then leads in a moderate ascent to a crossroads near Koča na Ermanovcu. Here, continue left (right top of Ermanovec) and after a few further steps you will reach the aforementioned mountain hut.
From the hut, continue in the direction of Bevkov vrh, and after about 5 minutes of further walking along the road, you will reach a marked crossroads where the path from Kopačnice joins from the right.
From the crossroads, which is located in the main ridge of the 1005 m high Štor, continue straight ahead (Kopačnica on the right) along a fairly scenic asphalt road, which in a few minutes will take you to an informative signboard of the Rapallo border and a restored border stone from 1920.
A few steps further on, signs for the Franja Hospital direct us to the right, onto a dirt road that leads through the yard of a nearby house. On the other side of the house, continue left on cart track, which leads over a grassy slope into the woods. Follow the signs through the forest at several forks, and the path visibly descends behind a building dating from the time of the Rapallo frontier. Lower down, the path leads us out of the forest, from where we have a beautiful view of Škofje. A few steps lower, at a hamlet of a few houses, we come to an asphalt road leading from Koča na Ermanovcu to the Kladje pass, which we follow briefly to the right, and then the next signs for the Franja Hospital direct us to the right to cart track, which continues to descend. The descent follows, first through the forest and then across the hay meadows to the next well-marked crossroads, where the path from the Kladje Pass joins us on the left.
Continue straight ahead (right Jeram - ICPP stamp) along the gently sloping cart track, which crosses the lane of the forest, and then, without any major changes in altitude, leads us in a few minutes to the next marked crossroads. At the crossroads, just cross the asphalt road (left down Cerkno and Franja Hospital) and continue over a short grassy slope into the forest (follow the footpath and not the nearby cart track). Continue climbing along the edge of the forest, and the trail takes you right next to the extensive grassy slope of Škofja. Higher up, the path leads us out of the forest onto a grassy ridge, where it turns to the right and continues to climb along an increasingly scenic ridge. This is followed by a gently sloping and very scenic walk along the grassy ridge (nice view of Kojca and Porezen), and then the path passes into the forest and after a few minutes of further walking leads us to the top of Škofja.
Sovodenj - Koča na Ermanovcu 1:20, Koča na Ermanovcu - Škofje 1:35.

On the way: Koča na Ermanovcu mountain hut (968m), Vrata (831m)

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