Hotavlje - Dom na Slajki

Access to starting point:
A) From Železniki, Kranj or Medvode we drive to Škofja Loka, and from there we continue driving towards Gorenja vas in Poljanska dolina and Žiri. After Gorenja vas, in the settlement Hotavlje, at the crossroad behind inn Gostilna Lipan we leave the main road towards Žiri and continue driving right in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Immediately after the crossroad we park at a suitable place by the road.
B) From Horjul or Polhov Gradec we drive to Lučine, from there we descend into Gorenja vas. In Gorenja vas we continue left towards Žiri, then in Hotavlje at the crossroad behind inn Gostilna Lipan we continue right in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Immediately after the crossroad we park at a suitable place by the road.
C) From Vrhnika, Logatec or Spodnja Idrija we drive to Žiri, and from there we continue driving towards Gorenja vas and Škofja Loka, but we drive on the main road only to the settlement Hotavlje, where we turn left in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Immediately after the crossroad we park at a suitable place by the road.
D) First we drive to Cerkno, and from there we continue driving through the saddle Kladje (Podlanišče) towards Sovodenj. From Sovodenj we continue driving along the stream Hobovščica, then at a somewhat larger crossroad we continue left in the direction of Gorenja vas (right Žiri). On the main road towards Škofja Loka we drive to the settlement Hotavlje, where we turn left in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Immediately after the crossroad we park at a suitable place by the road.

Path description:
From the starting point, where nearby there is a vending machine of the farm pri Šupc, we continue on the road towards the village Leskovica and in the direction of hiking paths to Blegoš, Ermanovec and Slajka. We walk for a few minutes by the edge of the road, partly also on the sidewalk, then signs for Ermanovec and Slajka direct us left (straight Blegoš), where over the bridge we cross Kopačnica, immediately after the bridge at the church of St. Lovrenc we continue right and gradually begin to ascend. Initially we ascend still past a few houses, then signs direct us sharply left, where for some ten steps we continue on a cart track, on the hayfield the cart track turns into a footpath, which veers slightly right and leads us past one more house. Higher we cross a few poorer cart tracks, the blazes through a strip of somewhat overgrown path lead us to an asphalt road, which we just cross. On the other side of the road we first ascend more steeply, then continue on a narrower footpath, which continues through a small valley, where the route of the power line also runs. From the valley we soon ascend transversely to the right, where we reach the ridge (here another footpath joins from the right), here the footpath turns left. A little farther we cross yet another cart track, when we leave the forest we quickly ascend to an asphalt road, which we follow to the right. The asphalt road then leads us past a bench, where to the right a path branches off towards Vrh Slajke, we follow the road, which turns semicircularly to the left, to the nearby farm, from which the Dom na Slajki is only a minute's walk away.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in January 2020.

Trip can be extended to: Špik (Vranškov grič) , Vrhovski grič (1 h 15 min) , Koča na Ermanovcu (1 h 30 min) , Štor (1 h 35 min) , Ermanovec (1 h 25 min)