Jesenica - Kojca

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to the center of Cerkno (to here from the road Idrija - Most na Soči, or from Gorenja vas and Žiri over mountain pass Kladje, or from Zali Log through Davča...), and then we continue driving in the direction of Zakojca. Just a few meters after turning towards Zakojca, the road towards the village Zakriž branches off to the left, through which a steep shortcut leads, while we continue on the road which continues along the stream Zapoška. Higher up, the road leads through villages Trebenče, Gorje, and then after crossing the slopes, on the upper side we bypass village Zakriž, where the previously mentioned shortcut joins us. A little further ahead, the road turns even more to the right, and then after a few kilometers of traversing we arrive at the beginning of the village Jesenica, where we notice the first signs for saddle Vrh Ravni, Kojca and Porezen, which point right, and we continue left towards the central part of the village, where we park at an appropriate place by the recycling spot. At the starting point, there is also a bus stop and a memorial plaque.
B) From Most na Soči or Bača pri Modreju we drive towards Idrija, and then past the settlement Reka, right before crossing the stream Jesenica we turn sharply left, and at the next intersection sharply right in the direction of Orehovška grapa. After a few kilometers of a relatively steep road we arrive at the village Orehek, a little above the village we join the transverse road below Kojca, which we follow to the right. When we arrive at the village Jesenica, we park at an appropriate place by the recycling spot. At the starting point, there is also a bus stop and a memorial plaque.
C) From Bača pri Modreju we drive towards Podbrdo or vice versa, and then in the settlement Grahovo ob Bači we turn in the direction of Zakojca and Bukovo. In the continuation, we drive for quite some time on a winding and ascending road, and then at the marked intersection we continue right in the direction of Cerkno (left Zakojca). This is followed by the crossing of Kojca, and then, when we arrive at the village Jesenica, we park at an appropriate place by the recycling spot. At the starting point, there is also a bus stop and a memorial plaque.

Path description:
A few steps southeast from the starting point, we notice signs for Kojca and Porezen, which direct us left onto an asphalt road that begins to ascend steeply through the village. With views of Kojca we ascend past a few houses, then the asphalt ends, and the path leads us still past individual houses. Behind the last house the road turns into a cart track, along which in a few minutes of further walking we ascend to the saddle Vrh Ravni, where there is a junction of numerous paths.
From the saddle Vrh Ravni we continue left on the cart track in the direction of Kojca. We follow the moderately ascending cart track for approximately 15 minutes, then a signpost directs us left onto an increasingly steep footpath. The path, running through the forest, then takes us past a spring to the pleasant resting place Lipje, where the path from the village Orehek joins us from the left.
The path ahead returns into dense forest and begins to ascend even more steeply. Higher up the steepness eases and the path turns right. There follows a few minutes of traversing steep slopes and the path brings us to a junction, where the path from the village Zakojca joins us from the right side.
We continue sharply left in the direction of Kojca along a hunting path, which a little further ahead brings us to the main ridge of the mentioned peak. Here the path turns slightly to the right and begins to ascend steeply again along the increasingly panoramic summit slope of the mountain. Higher up the steepness eases and the path takes us out of the forest onto grassy slopes, along which we then ascend to the summit of Kojca in a few minutes of panoramic walking.

On the way: Preval Vrh Ravni (826m)