Cerkno - Koča na Ermanovcu (via Kladje)

Access to starting point:
From the road Idrija - Tolmin (also possible through the mountain pass Kladje, Davče, 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. We walk for some time on or by the main road, by 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, since then the blazes direct us left onto an ascending and marked cart track (up to here also possible with a car, this shortens the path by less than 30 minutes, at the same time avoiding 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 once again and a few cart tracks, then we emerge from the forest, where we reach a smaller wooden hut. Above the hut the cart track along which we walk turns left, 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 flattens completely, then brings us in crossing the slopes to the left to a smaller hamlet. Behind the hamlet, from which a nice view opens up on 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 mountain pass Kladje we continue towards the east, on the road in the direction of Ermanovec. The road first ascends past a few houses, then we reach the place where a marked path to Škofje branches off to the left, 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, on the area named Laniška ravan, the path from hospital Franja joins from the left (also the path from Cerkno - path through Planina pri Cerknem and the path from Škofje), 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, there 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, the path brings us to the fortifications of the former Rapallo border, where the path flattens. 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, reaching it through the yard of the nearby house.
When we step on the road we continue in the direction of Ermanovec, the path first leads us past the information board (Trail along the Rapallo border), a little further also past an old chapel, behind which from the left also joins a marked path from Kopačnica.
We continue straight, then in a few minutes we arrive at the Koča na Ermanovcu.

On the way: Kladje (787m)

Trip can be extended to: Škofje , Štor , Ermanovec