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

Access to starting point:
A) From Idrija or Cerkno we drive towards Tolmin, where in the settlement Reka we need to pay attention to the approaching beginning 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 we park on a 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 we park on a widened asphalt by the main road.

Path description:
From the starting point, we cross the stream Kozarska grapa (also Kazarska grapa) and we continue by the main road in the direction of Most na Soči. Few minutes we walk by the main road, and then at the less noticeable crossing of the stream Poličanka we leave it and we continue right, on the road by which there is a gate. After the gate we short time continue on the macadam road, and then through a nicely settled meadow we walk to the beginning of Poliška grapa. At first, we easily follow the footpath which leads by the stream and then intuitively a little on the left and a little on the right side of the stream. When we get to the first waterfall, we bypass it on the right side, where with the help of iron spikes we ascend through brown bulges, and then we again continue directly by the stream.
Also, the second waterfall we bypass on the right side with the help of iron spikes, and the next as well with the help of some iron spikes, on the left side. Further on the steeper parts we still get help from occasional iron spikes, and at an orientation also from prusiks. The path ahead leads us on the right side of the stream (left bank), and during the walk we can admire the views of waterfalls, rapids and pools. Next follows a scenic, quite steep ascent through a draught-hole, and above the draught-hole another breathtaking view opens up on one of the waterfalls. Higher, we get to a pipeline, by which we short time continue, and then we gradually return to the stream. We continue on and a little above the riverbed, where at the orientation we get help from a prusik, and the gable of Poliška grapa we leave to the right, where with the help of iron spikes we start steeply ascending. From here the view opens up also on the last waterfall, named Hudičeva cerkev, and with the orientational help of prusiks, which serve also as blazes, we ascend from the gully and we run into a footpath.
We follow the footpath to the left (if we cross it we ascend on the ridge, from which we can cross into Kozarska grapa, and if we follow it to the right on the ridge which is rising above the gorge Poličanka we return to the starting point - pictures of this descent part are added at the end of the description) and there we descend a little to a riverbed of the stream and on the other side on visible old footpaths we ascend to a meadow, and there on a plateau, from where to the church we have only a short walk.
From the church, we continue on a gently sloping asphalt road which leads us with nice views on a quite plain terrain, where we go past the chapel and a stone Počivalec. A little further, we get to a smaller crossroad, where the road branches off sharply to the right, which leads towards the valley, and we continue straight in the village, where from the left joins the path through the neighbouring gully Sjaunk (Sejalnik), where there is one of the options to descent into the valley. At the smaller crossroad, we continue slightly left, and at the next slightly right in the direction of Šentviška Gora (slightly left Police house number 20-23).
Here, the asphalt ends, and already after few steps we get to the next crossing, where on the bottom path (cart track) continues a marked path towards Šentviška Gora, and we go on the upper path and we continue on the macadam road. Next follows mostly a diagonal ascent on slopes of Košarica (961 meters), from where occasionally a nice view opens up, and the path leads us also past two streams, at the second there is also a nicely settled trough, where we can fill the water. Further, from the slope we get to plateau and past few houses we get to the asphalt road Šentviška Gora - Bukovo Vrh.
We follow the road to the left (right Bukovski Vrh) and in few steps we get to the next crossroad from which we continue right in the direction of Gorski Vrh.
After the crossroad, the road slightly descends, and then it starts ascending steeper and leads us past the homestead Travnikar, and a little higher it brings us to the next crossroad.
To the left the road continues towards the settlement Ponikve, and to the right road towards the settlement Bukovski Vrh, and we continue straight on a beaten unmarked footpath which at first ascends through a meadow, after that for some time passes into the forest, where we cross the first grazing fence, when we step out of the forest we cross the fence two more times.
Here we join the path from the village Ponikve, and we continue straight towards Črvov vrh, where we already see antenna tower. Follows few minutes of a moderate ascent, after the crossing of a grazing fence to the top separates us only few steps of easy walking.
We can descend through the neighbouring gully of the stream Sjaunk (Sejalnik), through which leads a relatively easy to follow footpath or on the ridge, which is mentioned in the description at the exit from Poliška grapa, or we can descend also on an asphalt road.
The starting point - church in Police 1:30, church in Police - Črvov vrh 1:35.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in December 2019 and February and March 2020.
The author of photos from number 1 to 31 and from 69 to 72 is Tadeja Črv.

On the way: Cerkev Marijinega rojstva v Policah (526m), Police (550m), Gorski Vrh (827m)