Jevšček - Monte Mataiur/Matajur

Access to starting point:
a) We drive to Tolmin, then continue driving towards Kobarid. When we reach the settlement of Idrsko, we turn left 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 continue left in the direction of Jevšček and Nježne hiše. We then drive through the hamlet Piki, and then reach the pastures located before the settlement Jevšček. The described path starts at the recycling point here, and we park a little earlier, at a suitable 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 continue left in the direction of Jevšček and Nježne hiše. We then drive through the hamlet Piki, and then reach the pastures located before the settlement Jevšček. The described path starts at the recycling point here, and we park a little earlier, at a suitable place by the road.

Route description:
At the recycling point we leave the road and continue sharply right onto a cart track, which for some time continues parallel to the road and for some time runs under the power line. The cart track soon passes along the edge of the forest and leads us into a small valley, where it turns right. At the mentioned place we leave the cart track and continue straight up onto a poorer path, which continues to ascend along the edge of the forest. Higher up, when we finally leave the pastures and meadows and the path enters the forest, blue "markings" appear along the path, which accompany us in a transverse ascent to the right, or all the way to the arrival at the forest road. We follow the road coming from the village Avsa to the left, and from it we quickly go right onto a footpath, which after a few minutes of ascent returns to the road. We continue the ascent on a gravel road, which after a few minutes turns right and leads us along the edge of the abandoned mountain pasture Sleme, which we see to the left below us. This is followed by quite a bit of walking on a fairly gentle gravel road, and then a new path from the village Avsa joins from the right.
On the road, which is marked further on, we then quickly reach a marked junction located in a small valley between Mrzli vrh and Srednji vrh.
At the junction a marked but unmarked path branches off to the right to Mrzli vrh, Srednji vrh and Idrska planina, and we continue on the road, which forks on the western side of Mrzli vrh.
We continue on the left road (right Idrska planina), which a little further on is joined by a "new" path from Avsa or Livka.
From the poorly visible junction we walk on the road for a few more minutes, then at the next marked junction we leave it and continue right in the direction of Matajur (straight Dom na Matajure).
Further on the path begins to ascend again over a partly grassy slope, from which ever more beautiful views of the surrounding mountains open up to us. Higher up, when the path already gradually passes to the northern slopes, a path from the village Svino also joins from the right, and we continue towards Matajur. This is followed by a few minutes of transverse ascent and we already reach the junction below Glava, where the "Slovenian route" to Matajur and the path by which we can reach Visoka glava continue straight ahead, and we continue left upwards and quickly ascend to the scenic eastern ridge of Matajur, where a path from Italy also joins (starting point Mašera / Masseris).
We continue on the mentioned ridge, along which we ascend gently to moderately along the state border between Slovenia and Italy. This is followed by a few minutes of increasingly scenic walking and we reach the summit of Matajur, from where an even beautiful view opens to the west.
The description and pictures refer to the situation in 2018 (October).

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