Starting point: Malovše (188 m)
Lat/Lon: | 45,9046°N 13,7897°E |
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Time of walking: 3 h 35 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Altitude difference: 1049 m
Altitude difference po putu: 1080 m
Map: Goriška 1:50.000
Recommended equipment (summer):
Recommended equipment (winter): ice axe, crampons
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Access to the starting point:
a) From the expressway Razdrto - Nova Gorica take the exit Selo, then continue in the route Nova Gorica, but only drive along the main road for about 20 m, then turn right onto the local road, which will soon take you to the next junction. Continue straight ahead (left Črniče, right Gojače) and follow the gently ascending road to the village of Malovše. Park above the village, preferably near the cemetery.
b) From the expressway or motorway Nova Gorica - Razdrto, take the exit Selo and then continue towards Nova Gorica. Continue through the underpass under the motorway to the nearby motorway entrance. From here, continue on the main road for another 20 m, then turn right onto the local road, which will soon take you to the next junction. Continue straight ahead (left Črniče, right Gojače) and follow the gently ascending road to the village of Malovše. Park above the village, preferably near the cemetery.
Path description:
From the cemetery, take the road to the right in the direction of St Paul's (left Črniče) and walk along it for about 50 m. After 50 m the asphalt road turns slightly to the right, and we leave it at this point and continue straight on the dirt road. We walk along the dirt road for a very short time, and then the signs for St Paul's and Kucelj direct us slightly further to the left on the partly stony cart track. There is a slight climb through the forest, and then we join the path from the village of Gojače.
Continue straight ahead and follow the well-traced but unmarked cart track, which continues through increasingly sparse forest, to the next marked crossroads. This time continue along the left-hand cart track (St Paul and Vrtovin on the right), with markers for Kucelj and St Paul. A few 10 m higher, join the wider cart track and follow it to the right (Črniče on the left). Continue along the above-mentioned cart track for about 10 minutes and then arrive at the next crossroads, where the signs for Kucelj direct you to the right to the slightly narrower cart track, which is soon joined from the right by the path that you would have taken if you had continued a little lower in the direction of St Paul and Vrtovina. Continue for some time to the right, then the path leads to a large trough. From here we continue for a short distance through lane of bushes, and then the path leads us to a place where we continue to the left in the direction of Kuclje (to the right of St Paul's Churchyard).
The path ahead takes us through lane of bushes and then quickly into the forest, where we arrive at the next marked crossroads. Continue again in the direction of Kuclje and continue the ascent along the path which crosses the macadam road higher up. The path continues to climb moderately and soon crosses the road again. This time crossing the road, we get a nice view towards the Veliki robo, and the path immediately returns to the forest, through which it climbs moderately for a few more minutes. Higher up, the path turns right and briefly descends to a nearby crossroads, where we join the path from Vrtovina.
The way forward begins to climb steeply through the forest, through which we continue to climb for some time. Higher up, we cross the Srednječavensko trail, above which the forest slowly begins to thin out. A little higher still, the path comes quite close to the old road link between the Vipava valley and the plateau of the Trnovski Forest. Exactly at the point where we are completely close to the road cart track, we leave the mountain path leading to Kucelj and continue our ascent along the road, after which we start to climb crosswise to the left. After a good 10 minutes of walking, the road is laid and leads us to the edge of the plateau, where we join the path leading from the Cottage on Čavnu via Kuclja to the Great Edge.
From here, we continue along the worse road for another 10 m, and then the signs for Veliki rob direct us left onto a footpath that gradually begins to climb the southern slopes of Trnovo Forest. The occasionally quite scenic path retreats slightly to the right higher up the ridge and briefly passes into the dense forest, where the path from Cirque joins us from the right. After a short descent, the path begins to climb again, and this leads us out of the forest into the lane of dwarf pines, where it then continues along and along an occasionally quite steep ridge. This path, which offers beautiful views, is then followed all the way to the Big Rim.
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