Kozarnice - Srednji Golak (unmarked eastern way)

Access to the starting point:
a) From central Slovenia, first drive to Logatec and then continue towards Idrija. At Kalce near Logatec, turn left towards Colo, then continue along the winding road towards Colo. Turn right at Col and then left after 100 m in the route Predmeja. Continue along the road, which is sometimes a little narrower and also partly winding, to Predmeja. At the end of Predmeja turn right towards Lokva (left down Ajdovščina), and we follow the main road for another 2 km, or until the sign for Golake, which directs us right onto a forest road. The road, still asphalted at first, soon becomes macadam, and we follow it straight ahead at the first crossroads, then right at the second, and then drive another 100 m or so to the parking lot at the end of the carriageway.
b) From the expressway Razdrto - Nova Gorica take the exit Ajdovščina and follow the road towards the village Lokavec (Lokavac can be reached from the centre of Ajdovščina, or from the old road Ajdovščina - Nova Gorica, where you turn right at Cesta). From Lokavac, continue driving along the ascending winding road in the direction of Predmeja. When the road is slightly flat, we reach a crossroads where the road from Cola joins us from the right, and we continue straight ahead and follow the main road for another 2 km, or until the sign for Golake, which directs us to the right on the forest road. The road, still asphalted at first, soon becomes gravel, and we follow it straight ahead at the first crossroads, then right at the second, and then drive another 100 m or so to the parking lot at the end of the carriageway.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road along which you parked. The road immediately turns into a wide cart track. Follow it for about 15 minutes until it leads to a forest road. Here you turn right and after a few steps you come to a crossroads of two roads. One goes left and the other right. Take the road to the right where there is a roadblock. Follow the road almost horizontally across the slopes of Golakov to the east, past the "Uscana skala" for about 20 minutes to where a wide cart track road branches off sharp left. Take the cart track, which leads in a few minutes to a large meadow where a hunting observation post is situated.
Here we come across signs for Iztok's cottage and we cross the meadow and on the other side we see a path going into the forest. Since the path is not marked we must carefully follow the path, which leads us in a moderate climb through the forest in half an hour walk from the meadow to the marked path that comes from Idrija. Here there is a small pass and we turn left upwards. The path climbs steeply in places and leads us out of the forest. The trail in the upper part runs between dwarf pines with beautiful views. When we reach the highest point we are on an unrecognisable summit.

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Mali Golak

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