Jevšček - Monte Mataiur/Matajur

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Tolmin, and then we continue driving towards Kobarid. When we get to the settlement Idrsko, we turn left in the direction of the settlement Livek, from Livek we follow the signs for Avsa and Matajur. A little higher we leave the road towards Avsa and we continue left in the direction of Jevšček and Nježna hiša. Further, we drive through the hamlet Piki, and then we get to pastures, which are situated still before the settlement Jevšček. Here at the recycling spot there is the beginning of the described path, and we park a little earlier, on an appropriate place by the road.
B) From Kobarid we drive towards Tolmin, but only to the settlement Idrsko, where we turn right in the direction of the settlement Livek, and from Livek we follow the signs for Avsa and Matajur. A little higher we leave the road towards Avsa and we continue left in the direction of Jevšček and Nježna hiša. Further, we drive through the hamlet Piki, and then we get to pastures, which are situated still before the settlement Jevšček. Here at the recycling spot there is the beginning of the described path, and we park a little earlier, on an appropriate place by the road.

Path description:
At the recycling spot we leave the road and we continue sharply right on a cart track which for some time continues parallel with the road and for some time runs below the power line. Cart track soon passes to the edge of the forest and brings us into a smaller valley, where it turns right. On the mentioned spot, we leave the cart track and we continue straight upwards, on a bad footpath which is still ascending by the edge of the forest. Higher, when we finally leave pastures and meadows and when the path passes into the forest, by the path show up blue "signs", which are accompanying us in a diagonal ascent towards the right, or all the way until we get on the forest road. The road which comes from the village Avsa we follow left, and from there we go quickly right, on a footpath which after few minutes ascent returns on the road. We continue the ascent on a macadam road which after few minutes turns right and leads us by the edge of abandoned mountain pasture Sleme, which we notice left below us. Next follows quite some walking on quite gentle macadam road, after that from the right joins old path from the village Avsa.
On the road which is further marked, we then quickly get to a marked crossing, which is situated into a smaller valley between Mrzli vrh and Srednji vrh.
At the crossing marked path but without blazes branches off to the right on Mrzli vrh, Srednji vrh and Idrska planina, and we continue on the road which on the west side of Mrzli vrh splits.
We continue on the left road (right Idrska planina), which only a little further joins "new" path from Avsa or Livek.
From poorly noticeable crossing we walk on the road for few minutes, and then on next marked crossing we leave it and we continue right in the direction towards Matajur (straight Dom na Matajure).
Further, the path again starts ascending over partly grassy slope, from which increasingly beautiful views opening up on surrounding mountains. Higher, when the path gradually already passes on the northern slopes, from the right joins also the path from the village Svino, and we continue towards Matajur. Next follows few minutes of a diagonal ascent and we already get to a crossing below Glava, where in the direction of straight continues "Slovenian route" on Matajur and the path, on which we can get to Visoka Glava, and we continue left upwards and quickly ascend on panoramic eastern ridge of Matajur, where joins the path from Italy (starting point Mašera / Masseris).
We continue on the mentioned ridge, on which we are gently to moderately ascending on national border between Slovenia and Italy. Next follows few minutes of more and more panoramic walking and we get to the top of Matajur, from where also a nice view opens up towards the west.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (October).