Sovodenj - Ermanovec (by road)

Access to the starting point:
a) First, drive to Gorenjska vas in the Poljane valley (reachable from Škofja Loka, the new bypass road that bypasses Škofja Loka Horjul or Polhov Gradec), then continue driving towards Žire and Cerkno. After Trebija and just before the bridge over the Poljane Sora River, leave the main road towards Žire and turn right towards Cerkno. Continue along a slightly more winding road, which quickly leads to the settlement Sovodenj, where you park in the middle of the settlement in a large parking lot near the Mercator shop.
b) Drive to Žiri (to get here from Vrhnika or Logatec), then continue driving towards Škofja Loka. Before Trebija, turn left onto the road towards Cerkno. Continue along a slightly curvier road, which will quickly take you to Sovodenj, where you will park in the middle of the settlement in a large parking lot near the Mercator shop.
c) Leave the main road Idrija - Straža-Želin at the turnoff for the settlement Jazne, then climb up to the above-mentioned settlement, from where you continue driving towards Sovodnje. After a small pass, where the marked trail to Bevkov vrh branches off to the left, the road starts to descend and we follow it to the settlement Sovodenj, where we park in a larger parking lot near the Mercator shop.
d) We drive to Cerkno, and from there we continue in the direction of Škofja Loka. We continue along the ascending road, which takes us through Planina pri Cerknem, along a winding road to the pass Kladje, after which we start descending towards Sovodnje. When we arrive in Sovodenj we park in a large parking lot near the Mercator shop.

Path description:
From the centre of Sovodnja, continue along the main road towards Cerkno, which you leave after a few 100 m and continue slightly to the right in the direction of Hut na Ermanovcu. The way forward leads along a slightly narrower asphalt road, which runs along the Zakoparska grapa stream. After a few minutes, the path splits into two parts and we continue to the right in the direction of Ermanovec along the road (straight footpath to Ermanovec). There is a short climb through the forest, and then we come out of the forest and after a few more minutes we reach a small hamlet, where at a small crossroads we continue left in the direction of Ermanovec. Continue through the lane of a forest once more, and then the road leads you along the grassy slopes. After the hamlet of Na Sivk, you quickly reach a small pass, where there is a marked crossroads by a chapel and a bell.
From the crossroads, take a sharp right onto cart track (left Koča na Ermanovcu, slightly right Dom na Slajki on Hotavlje), after which you start to climb gently up the ridge. When the cart track turns slightly to the right, we continue slightly to the left, on a path that climbs over a slightly steeper grassy slope straight towards the summit. A little below the summit, the path is laid and leads us into the forest, where the summit of Ermanovec is located.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2016 (January).

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Koča na Ermanovcu, Štor

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