Reka (Kozarska grapa) - Church of the Nativity of Mary in Police (via Kozarska grapa)

Access to starting point:
A) From Idrija or Cerkno we drive towards Tolmin, where in the settlement Reka we need to pay attention to the approaching beginning of the path. When we get to the bridge, where the main road crosses the stream Kozarska grapa and where on the right we notice a carpentry workshop, we turn left and we park on a widened asphalt by the main road.
B) We drive to Bača pri Modreju (to here from Most na Soči or Podbrdo), and then we continue driving towards Idrija. In the settlement Reka, right behind the bridge, where we cross the stream Kozarska grapa, we turn right and we park on a widened asphalt by the main road.

Path description:
From the starting point, we cross the stream Kozarska grapa (also Kazarska grapa) and right behind the bridge, we turn right on a cart track which continues on the right bank of the stream, to a holiday cottage. Just before the holiday cottage, left uphill leads a shortcut, if we don't want to walk through the gully. The shortcut soon has a crossing. We follow the right variant and there we come to a crossing at Lipje. Here the path joins, which be described further.
If we go through the gully Kozarska grapa, we bypass the holiday cottage and through the passage below the leaned tower, we continue to abandoned power plant. We bypass it on the left side and we follow the route of an abandoned pipeline. On the right bank, we walk to the exit of the stream from the gorge. Here we cross to the left bank and we ascend through the steep gully (gully Železna grapa), to an altitude where we can safely continue parallel with the gorge. We soon run into a footpath and we follow it along the stream upwards. When we get to the rapids, above which we can see walls of climbing area Lutne skale, we bypass them on the right side, or even better, with climbing over the boulders, right by the water. We continue to the bridge, where we cross to the right bank and we follow the cart track, back in the direction of arrival. When the cart track splits, we follow the right branch uphill. On this path we reach the crossing on Lipje, where on the other side, we look into a riverbed of the stream Poličanka.
About twenty meters before the peak, left out of the forest an already mentioned shortcut joins.
If we continue towards the village Police, we go on a cart track which from the crossing runs right uphill. The cart track which is in parts interrupted because of the amelioration of a meadow, we follow by the forest. When a power line crosses a meadow, we descend on a cart track into a gully of Poličanka. Which we cross and on the right, more distinct cart track, we continue upwards. We soon reach an asphalt road, on which we turn left and after a little less than kilometer of walking, we are in the village Police, where we go once again left and past the chapel and the stone "počivalec" we get to the church of the Nativity of Mary in Police.
We can descend on the road, or through the gully of the stream Sjaunk (Sejalnik), or on the ridge between the gullies Poliška and Kozarska grapa.
But the "path" through Kozarska grapa is appropriate also for a descent, if we ascended to Police through the gully Poliška grapa. Pictures of the passage are in the description through the gully Poliška grapa.
Description refers to a condition in March 2020, and pictures are from February and March 2020.
Pictures to number 38 are contributed by Mari Božnar and Tadeja Črv.

Trip can be extended to: Črvov vrh (1 h 20 min)