Orehek - Kojca (new path)

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 here still continue straight, but we need to pay attention because we will soon get to the settlement Reka. Just a little after the end of Reka, we will notice signs for Bukovo, Zakojca and Bevkova homestead, which point us to the right on a narrower ascending road. Further, we ascend for quite some time, and then we get to 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 further, and then we get to 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 get to 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 further, and then we get to 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 get to Bukovo, we continue driving, and we follow the road towards the villages Orehek and Jesenica. When we get to the sharp left turn, which is located less than 100 m before the beginning of the village Orehek, we park on a larger macadam parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the asphalt road, on which we quickly get to the nearby chapel. At the chapel, we continue left on a macadam road, on which we start ascending steeper. We walk on the road for a good 10 minutes, then at the house we turn right on a marked footpath. The path ahead first ascends through a strip of forest and then brings us to one of 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 signs point us left on a somewhat less visible pathlet ascending along the edge of a smaller "tree avenue". At the top of the hay meadow, the path turns to the left and then ascends diagonally across occasionally steep, partly grassy slopes. Higher, the path enters the forest and starts ascending even steeper. A quite steep path further leads along the edge of a nearby gully, which it crosses higher up, then turns right and levels out completely. This is followed by crossing a grassy slope, and then before the marked path enters the forest, we continue left following the signs for Kojca (straight ahead old path).
Further, we ascend on a newly made path, which is easy to follow but unmarked. The steep path, which continues mostly across grassy slopes, makes a few hairpins, higher it ascends diagonally to the right and levels out just below the summit. A short easy ascent follows and the path brings us to the famous cairn on the top of Kojca, beside which there is also a newer bivouac and summit register box.