Cerkno - Ermanovec (via Kladje)

Access to starting point:
From the road Idrija - Tolmin (also possible via the pass Kladje, Davča, Leskovice...) we drive to Cerkno, where we park on one of the parking lots in the center or on the periphery of the town.

Path description:
From Cerkno we continue on the main asphalt road towards Škofja Loka. For some time we walk on or beside the main road, along which we notice a few rare blazes. After approximately 20 minutes of not very safe walking (we walk on a winding and occasionally quite busy main road), the road makes the first sharp left turn. Just before the mentioned turn, the blazes direct us right onto a side road, along which we arrive at a smaller hamlet. We walk past a few houses, then asphalt is replaced by macadam, and we follow the road only for a few dozen steps, because then the blazes direct us left onto an ascending and marked cart track (to here also possible with a car, which shortens the path by less than 30 minutes, and at the same time we avoid walking on the main road).
On the cart track we quickly ascend to the nearby meadow, on its upper edge the marked path turns right into the forest. There follows a few-minute ascent through dense forest, then we cross the forest road and continue the ascent on the marked path. Higher we cross the road again and a few cart tracks, then we arrive out of the forest, where we reach a smaller wooden hut. Above the hut the cart track on which we walk turns left, and we leave it here and ascend over an initially steep grassy slope to the nearby homestead, where we step onto the road. On the road we walk only a short time, then the blazes direct us right onto a wide cart track, which higher splits into two parts. We continue on the left one, which soon levels out completely, then brings us across the slopes towards the left to a smaller hamlet. Behind the hamlet, from which a nice view opens onto the surrounding hills, the cart track, or from here onwards a worse road, begins to ascend moderately and after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the center of the village Podlanišče, where there is a marked junction.
From Podlanišče or the Kladje pass we continue towards the east, on the road in the direction of Ermanovec. The road first ascends past a few houses, then we arrive at the place where a marked path to Škofje branches off to the left, and we continue on the road. The road continues for a short time through the forest, then alternately across hayfields and again through the forest, bypassing a few individual houses. Higher, in the area named Laniška ravan, the path from the Franja hospital joins from the left (also the path from Cerkno - the path through Planina pri Cerknem and the path from Škofje), and we a little further, at the smaller hamlet, continue slightly left onto the road in the direction of the footpath to Ermanovec. On the macadam road in a few dozen steps we ascend to a panoramic ridge, where the signs for Ermanovec direct us slightly right onto a cart track, along which we quickly ascend to the forest. We continue through the forest, where at the junctions we follow the blazes, and the path brings us to the fortifications of the former Rapallo border, where the path levels out. A little further we step out of the forest, then in a gentle descent we walk to the asphalt road which we left some time ago, and we reach it through the yard of the nearby house.
When we step onto the road we continue in the direction of Ermanovec, and the path first leads us past an information board (Trail along the Rapallo border), a little further also past an old chapel, behind which a marked path from Kopačnica joins from the left.
We continue straight, then in a few minutes we arrive at the Koča na Ermanovcu hut.
From the hut we continue straight (left Štor 5 minutes), at the first junction, where the path to the Žunar farm branches off to the right, straight again. On the road we walk a few more minutes, then from the junction at the chapel and bell we continue slightly right onto a cart track in the direction of the Ermanovec summit (straight on the road to Hotavlje and Slajka, right also on the road to Sovodenj), along which we begin to ascend gently along the panoramic ridge. When the cart track turns somewhat to the right, we continue slightly left onto a path, which ascends over a somewhat steeper grassy slope straight towards the summit. A little below the summit the path levels out and brings us into the forest, where the Ermanovec summit is located.

On the way: Kladje (787m), Koča na Ermanovcu (964m)

Trip can be extended to: Koča na Ermanovcu , Štor