Cerkno - Veliki vrh (Lajše)

Access to the starting point:
From the road Idrija - Tolmin drive to Cerkno, where you park in one of the car parks in the centre or outskirts of the town.

Path description:
From Cerkno continue on the main asphalt road towards Škofja Loka. Walk along the main road for a while, and you will see a few rare markings along the road. After about 20 minutes of not very safe walking (we are walking on a winding and sometimes quite busy main road), the road makes its first sharp left turn. Just before this turn, the signs direct us to the right onto a side road, which leads to a small hamlet. We walk past a few houses, then the asphalt is replaced by macadam, and we follow the road for only a few more 10 steps, as the signs then direct us to the left to the ascending and marked cart track (you can also drive here, which shortens the journey by about 30 minutes, while avoiding walking on the main road).
Follow cart track quickly up to the nearby meadow, and at the top edge of the meadow the marked path turns right into the forest. There is a few minutes' climb through the dense forest, then cross the forest road and continue the climb along the waymarked path. Cross the road and some tracks again, and then emerge from the forest to a small wooden hut. Above the hut, the track we are walking on turns left, and we leave it here and climb over the initially steep grassy slope to a nearby farmhouse, where we get on the road. We walk along the road for only a short distance, and then signs direct us to the right onto a wide track which splits into two parts higher up. Continue along the left-hand one, which soon becomes completely flat, and then, crossing the slopes to the left, leads to a small hamlet. Behind the hamlet, from which we have a beautiful view of the surrounding hills, the kolovoz, or worse road, starts to climb moderately and after a few minutes of further walking leads us to the centre of the village Podlanišče, where there is a marked crossroads.
From the marked crossroads at Podlanišče, continue right along the asphalted road in the direction of Lajš, Bevkov vrh and Sivka. The path initially leads us past houses, after which a marked path branches off to the left to Bevkov vrh, and we continue straight ahead and continue along the asphalt road. The road then crosses a lane of a forest, after which we reach a grassy slope with a view. With views of Škofje, Porezen, Kojca and part of the Lower Bohinj Mountains chain, we walk past a small hamlet, and then the road leads us to a small crossroads, where we continue right downhill towards the sanctuary at Lajša. Continue along the macadam road, which begins to descend moderately, but after it crosses the lane of the forest it completely lays down. Here, another path to Bevkov vrh branches off to the left, and the gently sloping road, which passes through an extensive meadow, quickly leads to the next crossroads, where we continue to the right and then, after a few steps, we reach a small church (the sanctuary at Lajšách), which is located some 10 m from the path.
From the sanctuary, continue along the gently ascending road, which leads to the quarry, where you continue along the road on the left. The road climbs quickly above the quarry and then turns slowly to the right. Follow this sometimes more scenic road all the way to the top, which is reached after a few minutes of further walking.

On the way: Kladje (787m), Svetišče na Lajšah (830m)

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