Reka (Kozarska grapa) - Črvov vrh (via Poliška grapa (Poličanka))

Access to the starting point:
a) From Idrija or Cerkno drive towards Tolmin, where at Reka 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 descent 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.
From the church, we continue along the asphalt road, which leads us to beautiful views across a fairly flat world, where we pass the chapel and the Resting Stone. A little further on, we reach a small crossroads where a road branches off sharply to the right, leading towards the valley, and we continue straight into the village, where a path joins us from the left through the neighbouring Sjaunk (Sejalnik) ravine, where one of the options for descending into the valley is. At a small crossroads, bear slightly left, and at the next crossroads, bear slightly right in the route Šentviška Gora (slightly left Shelf of house no. 20-23).
Here the asphalt ends, and after a few steps we reach the next fork, where the marked path continues along the lower path (the track) towards Šentviška Gora, and we continue along the upper path and continue on the dirt road. It is followed by a mostly cross-country climb up the slopes of Košarica (961 m), from where we occasionally get a nice view, and the path also leads us past two small streams, the second of which has a nice trough where we can fill up with water. Continuing down the slope, we reach the plateau and pass a few houses to reach the asphalt road Šentviška Gora - Bukovo Vrh.
Follow the road to the left (Bukovo Vrh to the right) and in a few steps you will reach the next crossroads from which you continue to the right in the direction of Gorski Vrh.
After the crossroads, the road descends slightly, then begins to climb steeply and leads us past the Travnikar homestead, and a little higher still leads us to the next crossroads.
To the left continues the road towards the settlement Ponikve, to the right the road towards the settlement Bukovo Vrh, and we continue straight on the unmarked path, which first climbs over the meadow, then transitively passes into the woods, where we cross the first pasture fence, when we get out of the woods we go over the fence twice more.
Here we join the path from the village of Ponikve, and we continue straight on towards Črvov vrh, where we can already see the antenna tower on it. A few minutes of moderate climbing follow, and after crossing the pasture fence we are only a few steps of easy walking away from the top.

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.

Starting point - church in Police 1:30, church in Police - Črvov vrh 1:35.
Description and images refer to the situation in December 2019 and February and March 2020.

The author of the photographs Nos 1 to 31 and 69 to 72 is Tadeja Črv.

On the way: Cerkev Marijinega rojstva v Policah (526m), Police (550m), Gorski Vrh (827m)

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