Podkraj - Srednja gora (Hrušica) (east path)

Access to starting point:
From Logatec we drive towards Idrija. Only a little after the village of Kalce we will notice a road which goes left in the direction of the village Podkraj and Col. We go on this quite winding road and follow it to the village Podkraj. We park on a smaller parking lot by the road right next to the sign for the end of the village Podkraj (by the parking lot are also hiking signposts).
From Primorska we first drive to Col, and then we continue driving in the direction of the village Podkraj. When the road brings us to the beginning of the village we don't continue right into the village, but we continue on the left upper road which bypasses the center of the village. Near the sign for the beginning of Podkraj we park on a smaller parking lot by the road.

Path description:
From the starting point, we go on an ascending cart track in the direction of Sveti Duh and Javornik. The cart track already after a few steps turns to the right and then ascends diagonally through a grassy slope. Higher, we pass into a short stretch of forest, after which the path brings us to a marked junction, where we continue right in the direction of Javornik (left Sv. Duh and Križna gora). The path ahead ascends gently by the edge of the forest and then brings us to Izakova koča (smaller emergency bivouac), which is located a little left from the path.
A little above the bivouac we come to a junction of several cart tracks. We continue straight (direction Javornik) on a partly rocky cart track and follow it for a few minutes, then at a smaller junction (marked) we continue slightly right on a grassy cart track, which leads us past an old military bunker. We bypass the bunker on the left side, and then the path brings us by the edge of a grazing fence. For some time we continue by the grazing fence, and then the path makes an orientation loop. The path turns right downwards, basically in the direction from which we came, and after a short descent left into the forest. Ahead we pass into a dense forest and for some time moderately ascend on a quite overgrown cart track. A short descent follows and the path brings us to a macadam road, which we follow to the left. The road soon brings us out of the forest onto expansive grassy slopes, in the middle of which we come to a junction.
We continue straight (right Javornik) on the macadam road, which soon returns into the forest and higher brings us to a smaller saddle, where from the right side a marked path joins, which comes from Streliški vrh. We continue on the road, which soon ends and changes into a gradually steeper cart track. The cart track higher flattens, and the blazes direct us slightly left onto a footpath, which first bypasses a smaller clearing, then passes into a dense forest, where it starts to ascend steeply. Higher we come to a nice vantage point, which is located on some sort of forepeak of Srednja gora. From the vantage point we continue on a relatively gentle mountain path, which after a few minutes of further walking through the forest brings us to the highest point of Srednja gora.