Avsa - Monte Mataiur/Matajur (old path)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Tolmin, then continue driving towards Kobarid. When we arrive at the settlement of Idrsko, we turn left towards the settlement of Livek; from Livek we follow the signs for Avsa and Matajur. From Avsa we continue a good 300 meters further, then we park on the marked parking lot.
B) From Kobarid we drive towards Tolmin, but only to the settlement of Idrsko, where we turn right towards the settlement of Livek; from Livek we follow the signs for Avsa and Matajur. From Avsa we continue a good 300 meters further, then we park on the marked parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto the marked path in the direction of Matajur, where we first walk through the forest and transitionally step onto a cart track. There follows an ascent across two shorter hayfields, then we return to a dense forest through which we ascend moderately to steeply, and here and there the path also descends slightly. Higher up, we cross a metal fence, behind which the path turns right and continues on a cart track. The cart track soon ends, and we continue on a footpath which continues across a partly grassy slope, surrounded by belts of forest. A little further on, the path turns left and entirely flattens on the slopes of Srednji vrh.
Here we can on pathless terrain in a few minutes ascend to Srednji vrh, otherwise we continue on the marked path, which crosses the slopes of the mentioned summit and a little further ahead joins the forest road. We follow the road to the right, along which we quickly arrive at a marked junction located in a smaller valley between Mrzli vrh and Srednji vrh.
At the junction a marked but blazeless path branches off to the right to Mrzli vrh, Srednji vrh and Idrsko planina, and we continue on the road which on the west side of Mrzli vrh splits.
We continue on the left road (right Idrska planina), to which a little further the "new" path from Avsa or Livek joins.
From the poorly noticeable junction we walk on the road for a few more minutes, then on the next marked junction we leave it and continue right in the direction towards Matajur (straight Dom na Matajure).
Further on, the path again begins to ascend across a partly grassy slope, from which increasingly beautiful views open up on the surrounding mountains. Higher, when the path gradually passes onto the northern slopes, the path from the village Svino also joins from the right, and we continue towards Matajur. There follows a few minutes of traversing ascent and we arrive at the junction below Glava, where straight ahead continues the "Slovenian route" to Matajur and the path by which we can reach Visoka glava, and we continue left uphill and quickly ascend to the panoramic eastern ridge of Matajur, where the path from Italy also joins (starting point Mašera / Masseris).
We continue along the mentioned ridge, along which we ascend gently to moderately along the state border between Slovenia and Italy. There follows a few minutes of increasingly panoramic walking and we arrive at the summit of Matajur, from where a beautiful view also opens towards the west.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in the year 2018 (October).