Mrše - Sveti Socerb (Artviže)

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Koper, we take the exit Hrpelje-Kozina, and then we continue driving in the direction of Ilirska Bistrica. Just a little after the settlement Materija, we leave the main road and continue left on a local road in the direction of the villages Hotična, Mrše and Artviže. Further, we drive on a narrower ascending road, which soon brings us to a junction, where the road to Hotična branches off to the left, and here we continue right and drive to the next junction, in which we turn left towards Mrše and Artviže (right Markovščina). We continue the ascent and the road brings us to the next junction, where we go left again (right Orehek pri Materiji). Further, we drive through Mrše, and soon above the village we park in a suitable place by the road.

Path description:
From the starting point, we head onto the marked footpath in the direction of Artviže. The path, which initially runs along a cart track, goes immediately into the forest, through which it continues for a few minutes almost without changes in altitude. After a good 5 minutes of walking, the blazes direct us right onto a somewhat narrower cart track, which begins to ascend gently and takes us almost right up to the nearby asphalt road. We continue parallel to the road, carefully following the blazes, as due to the greater overgrowth we can quickly lose the correct path. Higher up, the path crosses a poorer cart track, after which it ascends moderately for a while, then levels out and takes us past a few clearings to a wider cart track, where we continue sharply left. We continue for a short time along the wide cart track, then at the point where it begins to descend noticeably, we continue sharply right (the junction is poorly marked) onto a somewhat narrower but marked cart track. From here we continue for a short time through the forest or a belt of scrub, then the path past a hunting observatory brings us to a larger meadow, from which a nice view opens up onto the village of Artviže and the church of St. Socerb above it. We walk for a few minutes across the panoramic meadow, then the path brings us to an asphalt road, along which we quickly ascend to a junction in the immediate vicinity of the village Artviže.
Here we continue left into the village and walk past the organic farm to the next junction, where we continue right (left 20 meters to the logbook box at Artviže).
From the centre of the village we continue along the asphalt road, which is not marked further on. At junctions we keep to the left directions (we overlook the turn-offs to courtyards), and the road quickly takes us above the village, where the asphalt ends. We continue the ascent along the panoramic grassy slope, along which we walk to the church of St. Socerb in a few minutes; it stands on the highest peak of the Brkini.

On the way: Artviže (787m)