Vrtovin - Veliki Rob

Access to the starting point:
a) From the expressway Razdrto - Nova Gorica take the Ajdovščina exit, then turn left at the junction towards Nova Gorica. Continue along the regional road towards Nova Gorica to Vrtovin, and turn right in the middle of the village towards Čavno. Follow the road as it climbs through the village in the direction of St. Paul, Kuclj and Čavno at the crossroads. Park in the small parking lot at the end of the village, near the mountain signs.
b) From the motorway Nova Gorica - Razdrto, take the exit Selo, and then, when you get on the old road Nova Gorica - Ajdovščina, turn right towards Nova Gorica. Follow the regional road towards Ajdovščina to Vrtovin, and turn left in the middle of the village towards Čavno. Follow the road as it climbs through the village in the direction of St. Paul, Kuclj and Čavno at the crossroads. Park in the small parking lot at the end of the village, near the mountain signs.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road on the left in the direction of Kuclje and St. Paul. After a few minutes' walk, the road leads to a crossroads where the mountain path to Kucelj and Čaven branches off to the right (straight on along the St. Paul road). The ascent continues along the marked, partly stony cart track, which climbs through occasionally sparse forest. Slightly higher, you reach a marked crossroads, where you continue slightly left in the direction of Kuclje (right Mala gora and Čaven).
The well-marked cart track, which we follow in the direction of Kuclj, leads us slightly higher to a forest road, which we just cross. The way ahead climbs gently through sparse forest, but only to the point where the path from St Paul's joins us on the left.
The way ahead begins to climb steeply through the forest, through which we continue to climb for some time. Higher up, we cross the Middle Plain 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.
Just at the point where we are fully close to the road or cart track, we leave the mountain path leading to Kucelj and continue our ascent along the road, which we start to climb crosswise to the left. After a good 10 minutes' walk, 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 the 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.

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Kucelj na Čavnu

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