Podbrdo - Slatnik (northwestern peak) (via Lajnar)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, and then we continue driving towards Železniki, Podbrdo and Tolmin. When we get to Podbrdo we park on an appropriate place in the center of the settlement.
B) From the road Idrija - Most na Soči, at settlement Bača pri Modreju we turn right, or left, if we come from the direction of Posočje and we continue driving towards Podbrdo. When we get to Podbrdo we park on an appropriate place in the center of the settlement.

Path description:
From the center of Podbrdo we continue by the main road towards Železniki, where the path at first leads past the kindergarten and primary school Simon Kos Podbrdo. Some 10 meters ahead, at the smaller crossroad we continue left towards the parish church of St. Miklavž in Podbrdo, where opposite of TIC Podbrdo we notice the first mountain signposts for Bača pri Podbrdu and Vrh Bače (nearby are also signs for mountain maraton of 4 municipalities (GM4O)). A little further, the road on which we walk turns a little to the left over a small bridge (straight cemetery) and starts ascending diagonally above the riverbed of river Bača. The asphalt soon ends, and the road after a wooden religious symbol brings us to a marked crossing, where a marked footpath branches off to the left towards Vrh Bače (path through Bača pri Podbrdu), and we still continue on the road, by which there are still signs for GM4O. On a smaller plain, the road turns right and splits into two parts. On the left path (at first road) it is possible to come to the settlement Bača pri Podbrdu, and here as well we continue straight, this time on the road which gradually passes on the left bank of river Bača. A little further from the marked crossroad we continue left in the direction of GM4O (straight - Petrovo Brdo).
Further, we are ascending on a macadam road which at first makes a right hairpin turn, and in the middle of the next left hairpin turn, we leave it and we continue straight on a cart track (if we continue on the road, we get to the nearby homestead). The path ahead leads us on a cart track or old road and is for some time ascending diagonally towards the right, higher where from the right joins another path we go sharply left. Next follows a diagonal ascent, where we go for some time through more grassy part, where below the path we also notice an old hayloft, and a wide path, an old road then starts ascending in longer hairpin turns. Higher, we get to a decaying structure of Rapallo border, after which a worse footpath branches off to the right, which leads towards the nearby Kup, and we still continue on a wider path. Next follows some more of a diagonal ascent, and then we get to the next structure, which is quite bigger as the first and from which a nice view opens up. Higher at few crossings we follow the wider path, and when we join the marked path from Petrovo Brdo we go sharply left. Next follows a walk through the forest and some gullies and the path brings us to a crossing near the bivouac Lovčev bivak Pri Koucah.
Here we go right towards Lajnar and Slatnik (straight 1 minute Lovčev bivak Pri Koucah).
The path which ahead isn't marked, continues on an old mule track, and it quickly brings us out of the forest, where we cross relatively steep slopes. Higher, the path passes into a lane of a forest, where it turns sharply to the left. This easy to follow and an increasingly panoramic path, which higher makes few more hairpin turns, we follow all the way to the main ridge, where there is a marked crossing and where we again step on a marked path.
When we step on a marked path we continue straight (sharply right Lajnar) in the direction of Slatnik, Možic, Šavnik and Črna prst on a marked path which continues on Primorska side of the ridge (possible is also to continue on the ridge). A gentle ascent follows on panoramic mule track, and then the path brings us on the saddle between the both peaks of Slatnik.
We continue slightly right (sharply right Slatnik (southeastern peak) 10-15 minutes) on a wide path, which in a gentle ascent brings us a little above the old military barracks. Here we continue sharply left on a panoramic grassy ridge, on which in less than 5 minutes of additional walking, we ascend to the summit of Slatnik (northwestern peak).
Podbrdo - Lovčev bivak pri Koucah 1:55, Lovčev bivak pri Koucah - Slatnik (northwestern peak) 1:15.

On the way: Lovčev bivak Pri Koucah (1192m)