Petrovo Brdo - Hoč

Access to starting point:
From Železniki we drive towards Tolmin or vice versa, we follow the road to the settlement Petrovo Brdo, where on a parking lot at the mountain hut Planinski dom Petrovo Brdo we also park. The mountain hut is located right next to a crossroad, where the road on Soriška planina branches off.

Path description:
At the crossroad, by which we parked, we notice hiking signposts for Porezen, which point us on a narrow and ascending road. After a short ascent, we step on a scenic ridge, from which a view opens up on a mountain chain of Spodnje Bohinjske gore. Higher, the road passes into the forest, where for some time it is moderately ascending, and then blazes point us to the right on a footpath which is ascending on and by abandoned cart track. After few minutes, we return on the road, and we follow it only for a short time because signs for Porezen, again bring us into the forest, where we continue the ascent on a forest path. Only few 10 strides higher we step on a macadam road, we only cross it and on the other side, it ascends steeply on the stairs. The path ahead passes into a dense forest, where it is then moderately to steeply ascending. Following otherwise marked path, is on some spots because of many crossings and shortcuts a little harder, otherwise there aren't any bigger orientation problems. Higher, the path turns a little more to the right and it also considerably flattens. After few minutes of easy walking we step out of the forest, on a little larger partly overgrown clearing, where we leave the marked path on Porezen.
On the saddle, where we leave the marked path towards Porezen, a nice view opens up towards Blegoš on the left and Spodnje Bohinjske gore and Triglav on the right.
From the saddle, we continue left on an indistinct ridge of Hoč, where we quickly step into the forest. Through the forest, we stick to an indistinct ridge and quite steep "path" pa after few minutes flattens on a smaller plain, where on the right we notice a vantage point, from which there is a nice view towards Porezen. After the part, where slope for some time flattens, "path" becomes even steeper. We still stick to the ridge or we are ascending a little left from it. Higher follows a short quite steep ascent, and then we step out of the forest and to the top we have only few steps, which we make with increasingly beautiful views.