Spodnje Danje - Erbelc

Access to the starting point:
a) First drive to Škofja Loka, then continue driving in the direction of Železniki and Tolmin. A few kilometres after Zali Log we reach a crossroads at Podrošt, where we continue straight on in the direction of Sorica and Soriška planina (Petrovo Brdo and Tolmin on the left). When the road from Petrovo Brda joins us above Sorica from the left, we continue to the right, and then drive towards Soriška planina only as far as a crossroads, where the roads to Zgornji and Spodnje Danje branch off to the right. Continue on the lower road towards Spodnje Danje. After approximately 1 km of further driving, you arrive at Spodnje Danje, where the route described above begins. There are no parking places in the village. Recently, the road Podrošt - Sorica has been closed frequently due to the rehabilitation of the road. In this case, use the detour by continuing towards Tolmin at Podrošt, then turn right at the first crossroads. After a fairly steep road, you will arrive in Sorica, where you will join the main road back to Soriška planina.
b) From the direction of Baška grapa, drive to Petrovo Brda, and from there turn left towards Soriška planina. Shortly after joining the road from Sorice, you will reach a crossroads where the roads to Zgornji and Spodnje Danje branch off to the right. Continue on the lower road towards Spodnje Danje. After approximately 1 km of further driving, you arrive at Spodnje Danje, where the route described above begins. There are no parking spaces in the village.
c) From Bohinjska Bistrica continue driving to Soriška planina and from there start descending towards Sorica. After a few kilometres of descending, the roads to Zgornji and Spodnje Danje branch off to the left and continue along the lower road to Dolní Danji. After about 1 km of further driving, you arrive at Spodnje Danje, where the route described above begins. There are no parking spaces in the village.

Path description:
In the middle of the village Spodnje Danje there is a crossroads where you continue left (St Mark's Church on the right) and then the road immediately splits into two parts. One is on the left and the other is on the right side of an older house. After the house, the two roads merge and we pass the last house and continue straight on cart track, which starts to climb through a view hayfield. The hayfield is slowly replaced by a sparse forest, and we continue straight ahead at a couple of crossroads. Higher up, the path leads us past two more small boulders, and then we cross the pasture fence once more and enter the road leading from Sorice towards Zgornje Danji. Follow the road to the left (right Zgornje Danje), and after a few steps turn right onto cart track, which turns into a forest. In the forest, at the first crossroads, go left, then a minute or two higher join cart track, which leads from Roteka. When you reach the cart track, take a sharp right and then start climbing cross-country to the right on an increasingly steep slope. Further on, cart track turns more and more to the left, then quickly becomes a small valley, after which the forest road leading from Soriška planina to Valant's Edge is reached.
Then cart track turns increasingly to the left and then quickly becomes a small valley, reaching the forest road leading from Soriška planina to Valant's Edge.
When you reach the road, follow it to the left, then start climbing, first gently and then moderately. After a long left turn, the road flattens out, but does not flatten out. At the beginning of the right-hand serpentine, the road forks off in a straight line, cart track, and continues along it. A little further on, on a small wall, the overgrown cart track branches off to the right, leading to the summit of Tonderškofel, and we continue straight on, and a minute or so further on, straight on again. When the higher cart track ends, we continue to the right on a less good, but traceable path, which in two minutes of further walking will take us up to the Erbelc lookout.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2015 (October).

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