Hotavlje - Dom na Slajki (via Bela)

Access to starting point:
A) From Železniki, Kranj or Medvode we drive to Škofja Loka, and from there we continue driving in the direction of Gorenja vas in Poljanska dolina and Žiri. After Gorenja vas, in the settlement Hotavlje, at the crossroad behind the inn Gostilna Lipan we leave the main road towards Žiri and continue driving right in the direction of the Cerkno ski slope and village Leskovica. Immediately after the crossroad, we park at an appropriate 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 the inn Gostilna Lipan we continue right in the direction of the Cerkno ski slope and village Leskovica. Immediately after the crossroad, we park at an appropriate 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 Cerkno ski slope and village Leskovica. Immediately after the crossroad, we park at an appropriate 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 Cerkno ski slope and village Leskovica. Immediately after the crossroad, we park at an appropriate place by the road.

Path description:
From the starting point, where nearby there is a vending machine of the farm pr Šupc, we continue on the road towards the village Leskovica and in the direction of the hiking paths to Blegoš, Ermanovec and Slajka. We walk for a few minutes along the edge of the road, partly also on the sidewalk, then the signs for Ermanovec and Slajka direct us left (straight Blegoš), where over the bridge we cross Kopačnica, and immediately after the bridge at the church of St. Lovrenc we continue left (right marked path to Slajka and Ermanovec).
Immediately after the church we go right, at first still on the asphalt road which leads to the nearby house, but before the house we go onto the cart track which ascends transversely to the double hayrack, which we bypass on the right side. When the cart track a little higher turns right, a path joins us from the left which starts near the confluence of Kopačnica and Poljanska Sora (near the crossroad where we parked, but on the right bank of Kopačnica, so we can arrive here also by this path), and we continue right and ascend transversely across the hay meadow into the forest, through which the path then continues. In the forest the cart track makes a few hairpin turns, and when the signs for Slajka direct us right, we leave it and continue for a short time on the forest path. Soon we return to the cart track, which we follow to the right, and a little higher we join the path from Podgora.
We continue right on a wider path which soon widens into a cart track, which turns somewhat left and brings us out of the forest at the hunting observatory. Here along the lower edge on the cart track we cross the meadow, and when we reach the macadam road we follow it to the right. The road soon begins to descend and brings us in a few minutes to a crossroad, where we reach the asphalt road. On the asphalt road we ascend to the nearby crossroad from which we continue right in the direction of Slajka.
Next follows the ascent on the asphalt road, and when we leave the forest the marked path from Hotavlje joins us from the right. The asphalt road then leads us past a bench, where the path to Vrh Slajke branches off to the right, but we follow the road, which turns semicircularly to the left, to the nearby farm, from which only a minute's walk separates us to the Dom na Slajki.
The description refers to the condition in December 2020, and the pictures are from January and December 2020.

Trip can be extended to: Špik (Vranškov grič) , Vrhovski grič (1 h) , Koča na Ermanovcu (1 h 15 min) , Štor (1 h 20 min) , Ermanovec (1 h 10 min)