Reka (Kozarska grapa) - Črvov vrh (via Kozarska grapa)

Access to starting point:
A) From Idrija or Cerkno we drive towards Tolmin, where in the settlement Reka we pay attention to the approaching start of the path. When we get to the bridge, where the main road crosses the stream Kozarska grapa and where on the right we notice a carpentry workshop, we turn left and park on the widened asphalt by the main road.
B) We drive to Bača pri Modreju (to here from Most na Soči or Podbrdo), and then we continue driving towards Idrija. In the settlement Reka, right behind the bridge, where we cross the stream Kozarska grapa, we turn right and park on the widened asphalt by the main road.

Path description:
From the starting point, we cross the stream Kozarska grapa (also Kazarska grapa) and right behind the bridge, we turn right on a cart track which continues on the right bank of the stream, to a holiday cottage. Just before the holiday cottage, left uphill leads a shortcut, if we don't want to walk through the gully. The shortcut soon has a fork. We follow the right variant and along it we come to a crossing at Lipje. Here the path joins, which will be described further.
If we go through the gully Kozarska grapa, we bypass the holiday cottage and through the passage below the leaning tower, we continue to the abandoned power plant. We bypass it on the left side and follow the route of the abandoned pipeline. On the right bank, we walk to the exit of the stream from the gorge. Here we cross to the left bank and ascend through the steep gully (Železna grapa), to the height where we can safely continue parallel to the gorge. We soon encounter a footpath and follow it along the stream upwards. When we get to the rapids, above which the walls of the climbing area Lutne skale are visible, we bypass them on the right side, or even better, by climbing over boulders right by the water. We continue to the bridge, where we cross to the right bank and follow the cart track, back in the direction of arrival. When the cart track forks, we follow the right branch uphill. Along this path we reach the crossing at Lipje, where on the other side we look into the bed of the stream Poličanka.
About twenty meters before the peak, from the left out of the forest the previously mentioned shortcut joins us.
If we continue towards the village Police, we head onto the cart track which from the crossing leads right uphill. We follow the cart track, which is interrupted in places due to the melioration of the meadow, right next to the forest. When the power line crosses the meadow, we descend along the cart track into the gully of Poličanka. We cross it and continue uphill along the right, more pronounced cart track. We soon reach an asphalt road, on which we turn left and after barely a kilometer of walking we are in the village Police, where first to the left branches the road to the nearby church, a little further a path also joins us from the left, which leads through the gully Sjaunk (Sejalnik), one of the descent options into the valley. At the smaller intersection we continue slightly left, at the next one slightly right in the direction of Šentviška Gora (slightly left Police house nos. 20-23).
Here the asphalt ends, but already after a few steps we reach the next fork, where along the lower path (cart track) the marked path to Šentviška Gora continues, while we continue along the upper path on the macadam road. There follows mostly a traverse ascent along the slopes of Košarica (961 m), from where a nice view occasionally opens up, and the path also leads us past two streams, at the second there is also a nicely arranged trough where we can refill water. Continuing from the slope we arrive at the plateau and past a few houses we reach the asphalt road Šentviška Gora - Bukovski Vrh.
We follow the road left (right Bukovski Vrh) and in a few steps we reach the next intersection from which we continue right in the direction of Gorskega Vrha.
After the intersection the road slightly descends, then it begins to ascend more steeply and leads us past the homestead Travnikar, a little higher it brings us to the next intersection.
To the left the road continues towards the settlement Ponikve, to the right towards the settlement Bukovski Vrh, but we continue straight on the trodden unmarked footpath, which first ascends across the meadow, then transitions into the forest, where we cross the first pasture fence, and when we step out of the forest we cross the fence two more times.
Here we join the path from the village Ponikve, but we continue straight towards Črvov vrh, where we already see the antenna tower on it. There follow a few minutes of moderate ascent, and after crossing the pasture fence only a few steps of easy walking separate us from the summit.

We can descend through the gully of the stream Sjaunk (Sejalnik), through which a trackable little path leads, or along the ridge mentioned in the description of the path through Poliško grapa, or also along the access asphalt road.
Starting point - Police 1:45, Police - Črvov vrh 1:30.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in December 2019 and February and March 2020.
Pictures up to no. 37 were contributed by Mari Božnar and Tadeja Črv.

On the way: Police (550m), Gorski Vrh (827m)