Col - Sveti Duh (Hrušica)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Razdrto - Nova Gorica highway we go to the Ajdovščina exit, and then we continue driving in the direction of Col and Idrija. When we get to Col we turn left towards Predmeja and then after a few meters right onto the parking lot opposite the parish church in Col. We can also park on the parking lot by the nearby sports field.
B) We drive to Logatec, and from there we continue driving towards Idrija. At the end of the settlement Kalce we turn left in the direction of Podkraj and Col, then on a somewhat more winding road we first get to Podkraj, and then on a somewhat more flat road also to Col. In Col, where we join the road from Ajdovščina, we continue right, and after some 10 meters left in the direction of Predmeja. Towards Predmeja we drive only a few meters, because immediately after the crossroads we turn right onto the parking lot opposite the church of St. Lenart.
C) We drive to Idrija, and then we continue driving towards Logatec. When we get to Godovič we leave the main road towards Logatec and we continue driving right in the direction of Črni Vrh, Col and Ajdovščina. When we get to Col we turn right towards Otlica and Predmeja and then once again right onto the nearby parking lot opposite the church.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we return to the main road Ajdovščina - Godovič, and then we walk along it towards Godovič, but only to the crossroads, where signs for Vodice direct us right onto a somewhat narrower road. The asphalt road then leads us past a few more houses and the footwear factory, and then gradually enters the forest, through which it begins to ascend moderately. Further on we walk along the road for quite some time, and then the blazes direct us slightly right onto a marked footpath, which after a few minutes returns to the road. The road then brings us to a marked crossroads, where we continue left in the direction of Vodice (right Vodice house nos. 1 and 2 and Podkraj). A little further we arrive at the next junction, where a macadam road towards Sveti Duh branches off sharply to the right (straight the road leading towards Vodice, slightly right marked path to Javornik).
We head onto the macadam road in the direction of Sveti Duh, where already after a few steps we step out of the forest at the lower part of the hay meadow, where there is a house or holiday cottage. In front of the house there is an interesting wooden sculpture in the shape of a bear mother with cub, behind the house the road already returns to the forest. Through the forest the road ascends gently to moderately, higher a worse road or cart track from the Fratar homestead joins us from the right. A little further a narrower forest road branches off from the left bend to the right, which higher ends and turns into a cart track, along which ascent towards Križna gora is possible (the road and cart track are unmarked, but the cart track joins the marked path a little below the summit), we continue left and further along the wide macadam road. Higher from the road a little view opens towards Golaki, hills above the Gora plateau and Vodice, where we can nicely see individual homesteads. We continue along the road, which in the last section, except for the serpentines, ascends towards the east. Above the last two serpentines the road splits into two parts, namely left continuing towards Vodice and right leading towards the church of Sv. Duh.
From the junction we continue slightly right, where along the road we notice signs for Sv. Duh (the path from where we left the asphalt to this crossroads was not marked), further there are also occasional old blazes. After a further short ascent, at the smaller crossroads we continue sharply right (signs for Sv. Duh), along the road which soon levels out and turns left, where it enters flatter terrain. Here a path branches off to the right to Križna gora, straight ahead a well-trodden marked path continues towards Podkraj, we continue slightly left along the cart track in the direction already known to us. A short traverse ascent through the forest follows and we arrive at the logbook box and stamp and a few steps further to the church of Sv. Duh, from which a nice view opens towards Nanos.

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Srednja gora (Hrušica)

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