Hotavlje - Vrh Slajke (via Bela)

Access to starting point:
A) From Železniki, Kranj or Medvode we drive to Škofja Loka, from there we continue driving in the direction of Gorenja vas in Poljanska dolina and Žiri. After Gorenja vas, in the settlement Hotavlje, at the junction behind Gostilna Lipan we leave the main road towards Žiri and continue driving right in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Immediately after the junction, we park at a suitable place by the road.
B) From Horjul or Polhov Gradec we drive to Lučine, from there we descend to Gorenja vas. In Gorenja vas we continue left towards Žiri, then in Hotavlje at the junction behind Gostilna Lipan we continue right in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Immediately after the junction, we park at a suitable place by the road.
C) From Vrhnika, Logatec or Spodnja Idrija we drive to Žiri, from there we continue driving towards Gorenja vas and Škofja Loka, but we drive on the main road only to Hotavlje, where we turn left in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Immediately after the junction, we park at a suitable place by the road.
D) First we drive to Cerkno, from there we continue driving over the pass Kladje (Podlanišče) towards Sovodenj. From Sovodenj we continue driving along the stream Hobovščica, then at a somewhat larger junction we continue left in the direction of Gorenja vas (right Žiri). On the main road towards Škofja Loka we drive to Hotavlje, where we turn left in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Immediately after the junction, we park at a suitable place by the road.

Path description:
From the starting point, where nearby there is a vending machine of the farm pr Šupc, we continue on the road towards the village Leskovica and in the direction of the hiking paths to Blegoš, Ermanovec and Slajka. We walk for a few minutes by the edge of the road, partly also on the sidewalk, then the signs for Ermanovec and Slajka direct us left (straight Blegoš), where over the bridge we cross Kopačnica, immediately after the bridge at the church of St. Lovrenc we continue left (right marked path to Slajka and Ermanovec).
Immediately after the church we go right, initially still on the asphalt road that leads to the nearby house, but before the house we take the cart track that ascends transversely to the double hayrack, which we bypass on the right side. When the cart track higher up turns right, a path joins from the left, which starts near the confluence of Kopačnica and Poljanska Sora (near the junction where we parked, but on the right bank of Kopačnica, so we can also arrive here by that path), we continue right and ascend transversely across the hay meadow into the forest, through which the path then continues. In the forest the cart track makes a few hairpin turns, when the signs for Slajka direct us right we leave it and continue briefly on the forest path. Soon we return to the cart track, which we follow right, a little higher we join the path from Podgora.
We continue right on a wider path, which soon widens into a cart track, which turns slightly left and brings us out of the forest at the hunting observatory. Here along the lower edge on the cart track we cross the meadow, when we reach the macadam road we follow it right. The road soon begins to descend and brings us to the junction in a few minutes, where we reach the asphalt road. On the asphalt road we ascend to the nearby junction from which we continue right in the direction of Slajka.
This is followed by the ascent on the asphalt road, when we leave the forest the marked path from Hotavlje joins from the right.
On the asphalt road we walk a few more steps, then before the bench we continue right (straight Dom na Slajki and Ermanovec) on the cart track, which descends slightly, then on it in a moderate ascent we ascend to Vrh Slajke, where an antenna tower stands.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in January and December 2020.