Prevala - Škabrijel

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Nova Gorica, then continue driving towards Tolmin and Kobarid. We follow the main road towards Tolmin only to Solkan, where at the traffic-light intersection we continue right in the direction of Sveta Gora and Grgar. The ascending road further leads past the Solkan quarry, then a little higher it turns sharply to the right and brings us to the inn Skalnica, after which we first reach a crossroads, where a steep road branches off to the left towards Sveta Gora, and only a little further to another crossroads, where the road continues slightly to the left towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice, and we continue slightly right towards Trnovo and Lokvam. From the crossroads, we drive a good 100 m more, then park on a larger macadam parking lot on the left side of the road.
B) From Tolmin or Most na Soči we drive on the main road towards Nova Gorica, then only a little before Nova Gorica, more precisely at the traffic-light intersection in Solkan we turn left in the direction of Sveta Gora and Grgar. The ascending road further leads past the Solkan quarry, then a little higher it turns sharply to the right and brings us to the inn Skalnica, after which we first reach a crossroads, where a steep road branches off to the left towards Sveta Gora, and only a little further to another crossroads, where the road continues slightly to the left towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice, and we continue slightly right towards Trnovo and Lokvam. From the crossroads, we drive a good 100 m more, then park on a larger macadam parking lot on the left side of the road.
C) From Goriška Brda we drive to Solkan, where at the first crossroads after the new Solkan bridge we continue straight in the direction of Sveta Gora. The ascending road further leads past the Solkan quarry, then a little higher it turns sharply to the right and brings us to the inn Skalnica, after which we first reach a crossroads, where a steep road branches off to the left towards Sveta Gora, and only a little further to another crossroads, where the road continues slightly to the left towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice, and we continue slightly right towards Trnovo and Lokvam. From the crossroads, we drive a good 100 m more, then park on a larger macadam parking lot on the left side of the road.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we cross the road, then continue in the direction of the marked path to Škabrijel. On the other side of the road, we first continue on a stony cart track, then after crossing the power line, from where a nice view opens up on the Solkan bridge with the largest stone arch in the world, we arrive at a junction, by which there is a small bench.
From the junction we continue left in the direction of Škabrijel (straight ahead still on the Kekec and Škabrijel cart track past the Hungarian pyramid) on the path, which starts to ascend more steeply. Further on, we ascend moderately to steeply for some time, then, when higher up the path flattens, we arrive at the next marked junction.
To the left continues the path to Veliki hrib and the path to Škabrijel over the mentioned peak, we continue right. A little further, the previously mentioned path over Veliki hrib joins from the left (the path over Veliki hrib is circular), we again continue straight, further on we ascend gently to moderately, and the path during the ascent also leads past a pleasant viewpoint, from where a view opens up towards both Solkan bridges and surroundings. This is followed by a few minutes of moderate ascent and we arrive at the summit of Škabrijel, where a metal lookout tower stands, from which a view opens up reaching all the way to the Alps.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2016 (February).

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