Orehek - Kojca

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Idrija, and then we continue driving towards Tolmin. After some time, the road brings us to a crossroads, where the road to Cerkno branches off to the right, and we still continue straight here, but we need to pay attention because we will soon arrive at the settlement Reka. Just a little after the end of Reka, we will notice signs for Bukovo, Zakojca and Bevkova homestead, which direct us right onto a narrower ascending road. Further, we ascend for quite some time, and then we arrive at the hamlet Kojca, where we continue right in the direction of the villages Orehek and Jesenica. From the crossroads ahead, we drive a good 500 m, and then we arrive at the sharp left turn, where there is a larger macadam parking lot where we can park.
B) From Most na Soči, we drive to the settlement Bača pri Modreju, and then we continue driving towards Idrija. Just about 100 m before the beginning of the settlement Reka, the road branches off sharply to the left towards Zakojca, Bukovo and Bevkova homestead. Further, we ascend for quite some time on a narrower road, and then we arrive at the hamlet Kojca, where we continue right in the direction of the villages Orehek and Jesenica. From the crossroads ahead, we drive a good 500 m, and then we arrive at the sharp left turn, where there is a larger macadam parking lot where we can park.
C) From Podbrdo, we drive towards Tolmin, and we follow the main road to the settlement Grahovo ob Bači. Here we continue left in the direction of the villages Bukovo and Zakojca, and we follow the road, which first descends and then starts to ascend more steeply, to the village Bukovo. When we arrive in Bukovo, we continue driving further, and we follow the road towards the villages Orehek and Jesenica. When we arrive at the sharp left turn, which is located less than 100 m before the beginning of the village Orehek, we park on the larger macadam parking lot.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the asphalt road, on which we quickly arrive at the nearby chapel. At the chapel, we continue left on a macadam road, on which we begin to ascend more steeply. We walk on the road for a good 10 minutes, then at the house we turn right onto a marked footpath. The path ahead first ascends through a strip of forest, then brings us to one of the many hayracks, where it turns sharply to the right. We continue the ascent on a cart track, which soon brings us to expansive hay meadows. Here the signs direct us left onto a somewhat less visible path, which ascends along the edge of a smaller "avenue". At the top of the hay meadow, the path turns left and then ascends diagonally across occasionally steep, partly also grassy slopes. Higher, the path enters the forest and begins to ascend even steeper. A quite steep path leads us further along the edge of a nearby gully, which it crosses higher up, then turns right and levels out completely. Follows a relatively long traverse of the slopes to the right. The traverse runs across occasionally steep grassy slopes, partly through the forest. The traverse causes us no major difficulties due to the well-maintained path, only on one short section through the forest, due to the quite steep slope and partly destroyed path, greater caution is needed. When the approximately half-hour traverse ends, we join a more trodden path.
Here we continue left (right Zakojca, Orehek, Jesenica and saddle Vrh Ravni) and continue the ascent on a relatively steep path, which first leads past a bench, then passes into a strip of sparse forest. Higher, the path levels out and brings us to the gentle summit grassy slopes of Kojca. Here we continue on a level and panoramic path, on which in less than 5 minutes of further walking we arrive at the summit, which we recognize by the famous haystack.

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