Cerkno - Štor (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 at one of the parking lots in the center or on the periphery of the town.

Route description:
From Cerkno we continue on the main asphalt road towards Škofja Loka. We walk for some time 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 changes to macadam, and we follow the road only a few dozen steps, as the blazes then direct us left onto an ascending and marked cart track (to here also possible by car, which shortens the path by less than 30 minutes, while 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 further on the marked path. Higher we once again cross the road and a few cart tracks, then we arrive out of the forest, where we reach a smaller wooden cottage. Above the cottage 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 in crossing the slopes to the left it brings us 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 pass Kladje we continue eastwards 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 branches off to the left to Škofje, but we continue straight on the road. The road continues briefly through the forest, then alternately across hay meadows and again through the forest, bypassing a few individual houses in the process. Higher, in the area named Laniška ravan, the path from Franja Hospital joins from the left (also the path from Cerkno - path through Planina pri Cerknem and path from Škofje), and only a little further, at the smaller hamlet, we continue slightly left onto the road in the direction of the footpath to Ermanovec. On the macadam road we ascend in a few dozen steps 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 junctions we follow the blazes, and 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 walk in a gentle descent to the asphalt road which we left some time ago, reaching it via the yard of the nearby house.
When we step onto the road we continue in the direction of Ermanovec, the path first leading past the information board (Rapallo border trail), a little further also past an old chapel, behind which a marked path from Kopačnica also joins from the left.
We continue straight, then in a few minutes we arrive at the Koča na Ermanovcu hut.
Behind the hut we notice the mountain signpost for Štor, which directs us slightly to the left onto a footpath that ascends steeply through the forest. The path soon flattens and brings us out of the forest onto a panoramic meadow, where the blazes end. Here we continue right into dense forest and continue the ascent along a gentle unmarked path, along which in 2 minutes of further walking we arrive at the indistinct and forest-covered summit.

Along the route: Kladje (787m), Koča na Ermanovcu (964m)

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