Reka (Kozarska grapa) - Church of the Nativity of Mary in Police (via Poliška grapa (Poličanka))

Access to the starting point:
a) From Idrija or Cerkno, drive towards Tolmin, where at Reka you will become aware of the approaching start of the route. When you reach the bridge where the main road crosses the Kozarska grapa stream and where you see a carpenter's workshop on the right, turn left and park on the widened asphalt along the main road.
b) Drive to Bača pri Modreju (to get here from Most na Soči or Podbrdo), then continue driving towards Idrija. In Reka, just after the bridge where you cross the Kozarska grapa stream, turn right and park on the widened tarmac along the main road.

Path description:
From the starting point, cross the Kozarska grapa stream (also Kazarska grapa) and continue along the main road towards Most na Soči. Walk along the main road for a few minutes, then leave the main road at a less visible crossing of the Poličanka stream and continue right, onto the road with a roadblock. After the lock, continue along the macadam road for a short distance, then walk across a well-kept meadow to the beginning of Polička Grape. At first, you can follow the path along the stream, then follow it a little to the left and a little to the right of the stream, as you feel it. When you reach the first waterfall, go around it on the right side, where you climb over a brown muskeg with the help of pegs, and then continue directly along the stream again.
Go around the second waterfall on the right side with the help of wedges and the next one on the left side with the help of some wedges. In the steeper parts, we still have occasional wedges to help us, as well as prusiks for orientation. The path ahead leads us along the right side of the stream (left bank), with views of waterfalls, rapids and pools along the way. There is a scenic, rather steep climb through a vent, and above the vent we get another wonderful view of one of the waterfalls. Higher up, we reach a pipeline, along which we continue for a short distance before gradually returning to the stream. Continue along and slightly above the stream bed, where a prusik is an orientation aid, and leave the Poška Grape to the right, where we begin to climb steeply with the help of wedges. From here we have a view of the last waterfall, called the Devil's Church, and with the orientation help of the Prusiks, who are also helpful as markers, we climb out of the ravine, where we encounter a path.
Follow the path to the left (if you cross it, you will climb a ridge from which you can cross into the Kozarska grapa, if you follow it to the right, you will climb a ridge, which rises above the Poličanka gorge, return to the starting point - pictures of this descending part are added at the end of the description) and follow it slightly down to the stream bed, and on the other side, follow the visible old paths up to the meadow, and then onto the plateau, from where you are only a short walk away from the church. You can descend through the adjacent ravine of the Sjaunk (Sejalnik) stream, through which a traceable path leads, or along the ridge mentioned in the description at the exit from the Poliška ravine, or you can also descend along the asphalt access road.
Pictures 38 onwards show the crossing into Kozarska Gulpa.
The description and the pictures refer to the situation in February and March 2020.
The photographs, with the exception of pictures 32 and 33, were contributed by Tadeja Črv.

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Črvov vrh (1 h 35 min)

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