Podbrdo - Šavnik

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, and then we continue driving towards Železniki and Tolmin. When we get to Podbrdo, we need to pay attention, because we will turn right immediately after the church onto a narrower local road which starts ascending along the Bača River. We park in a suitable place by the road, or on a smaller parking lot by the local cemetery.
B) From the road Idrija - Most na Soči, at the settlement Bača pri Modreju we turn right, or left if we come from the direction of Posočje, and continue driving towards Podbrdo. At the end of the settlement Podbrdo, we need to pay attention, because we will turn left just before the church of St. Miklavž onto a narrower local road which starts ascending along the Bača River. We park in a suitable place by the road, or on a smaller parking lot by the local cemetery.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the initially still asphalted road, from which a marked footpath towards Vrh Bače soon branches off sharply to the left. We continue past an old residential house, behind which we gradually enter the forest. Through the forest we ascend on a relatively well-marked and partly quite steep mountain path, which higher up levels out and brings us out of the forest onto a short panoramic slope across which we walk to the nearby church of St. Lenart.
At the church, we step onto a narrow road along which we quickly walk into the village Bača pri Podbrdu. Through the small and panoramic village, we follow the blazes, which lead us onto a cart track that starts ascending through the forest. The narrower and initially somewhat overgrown cart track joins the old mule track after just a few minutes. We follow the wide mule track to the right, which brings us after a few minutes to a smaller junction, where we continue on the upper left path in the direction of Vrh Bače (slightly right Petrovo Brdo).
Further, we ascend for quite some time on the well-preserved and quite wide mule track, which higher up we leave briefly as the path leads via a marked shortcut. Higher up the mule track is blocked a few times by fallen trees, then we approach the cliffs of the peak Šance, where we leave the mule track. Next, we ascend a quite steep path, on which in 5 minutes of further walking we arrive at the hunting cottage on Vrh Bače.
From the hunting cottage we continue in the direction of Črna prst, then just a few steps below the indistinct saddle Vrh Bače we continue right in the direction of Šavnik and Možica. The path ahead steeply ascends briefly through the forest, then brings us to a grassy clearing where the path temporarily levels out. The path ahead returns to the forest, where after a short ascent it brings us to an old military bunker converted into a kind of weekend cottage, which the path bypasses on the right side. The moderately steep path then brings us to the edge of the ridge (here we can in a few steps climb to a nice vantage point - view of Baška grapa and Kobla) along which we then ascend through more or less dense forest. Higher the path turns left and completely levels out. There follows a good 5 minutes of walking, then the path brings us to a larger grassy slope between Šavnik and Slatnik. Here we continue on an easy path which turns right and after a few steps brings us to a marked junction.
We continue slightly left in the direction of Šavnik (straight to the mountain pasture behind Šavnik and Možic) on the path which enters a strip of forest through which it starts to ascend more steeply. Higher we step out of the forest onto grassy slopes overgrown with raspberries, across which in a traversing ascent we climb to the southeastern ridge of Šavnik. Here the path turns slightly to the left and continues on and along the already mentioned ridge. We follow this relatively steep and increasingly panoramic path all the way to the panoramic summit.

On the way: Sveti Lenart (Bača pri Podbrdu) (751m), Vrh Bače (1273m)