Hotavlje - Špik (Vranškov grič) (via Bela)

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

Path description:
From the starting point, where nearby there is a vending machine of the farm pr Šupc, we continue along the road towards the village Leskovica and in the direction of the hiking paths to Blegoš, Ermanovec and Slajko. We walk for a few minutes along the edge of the road, partly also on the sidewalk, then the signs for Ermanovec and Slajko direct us left (straight Blegoš), where over the bridge we cross Kopačnica, immediately after the bridge by the church of St. Lovrenc we continue left (right marked path to Slajko and Ermanovec).
Immediately after the church we go right, initially still on the asphalt road leading to the nearby house, but before the house we take the cart track that ascends transversely to the hayrack, which we bypass on the right side. When the cart track higher up turns right, a path joins us from the left that starts near the confluence of Kopačnica and Poljanska Sora (near the junction where we parked, but on the right bank of Kopačnica, so we can also reach here by this path), 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, when the signs for Slajko direct us right we leave it and continue briefly on a forest path. Soon we return to the cart track, which we follow right, a little higher we join the path from Podgora.
We continue right on a wider path that soon widens into a cart track, which turns slightly left and brings us out of the forest at the hunting observatory. Here along the lower edge we cross the meadow on the cart track, when we reach the macadam road we follow it right. The road soon begins to descend and brings us to the junction in a few minutes, where we reach the asphalt road. On the asphalt road we ascend to the nearby junction from which we continue right in the direction of Slajka.
This is followed by ascent on the asphalt road, when we leave the forest the marked path from Hotavlje joins from the right. The asphalt road then leads us past a bench, where a path branches right towards Vrh Slajke, we follow the road that turns semicircularly left to the nearby farm, from which the Dom na Slajki hut is only a minute's walk away.
From the hut we return to the nearby farm, where we bypass the main buildings on the upper side and continue on the macadam road, which on the nearby meadow turns into a cart track. This is followed by walking through a strip of forest, when we leave the forest we continue right (straight Ermanovec) on an unmarked path, initially a cart track that continues along the edge of the forest. When the forest on the right ends we continue the ascent along the pasture fence that leads along the grassy ridge, higher up the ridge flattens and turns left. We continue along the edge of the forest to the panoramic forepeak, from the forepeak we go slightly right into the forest. Through the forest we ascend towards west to northwest, occasionally noticing some older markings along the path. In a few minutes of ascent through the forest we reach the overgrown summit, on which stands a small cairn.
Hotavlje - Dom na Slajki 1:30, Dom na Slajki - Špik 0:20.
The description refers to the state in December 2020, the pictures are from January and December 2020.

On the way: Dom na Slajki (789m)