Solkan - Sabotin (northern way)
Starting point: Solkan (100 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.9751°N 13.6484°E 
Path name: northern way
Time of walking: 2 h
Difficulty: partly demanding marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 509 m
Altitude difference (by path): 509 m
Map: Goriška 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Nova Gorica and then continue driving towards Tolmin. At the end of the village Solkan, we turn left onto a large parking lot, which is located before the Solkan bridge.
From Tolmin we drive towards Nova Gorica, but only to the village Solkan. At the beginning of the village, we turn right and park on a large parking lot, which is located behind the Solkan bridge.
The starting point is on the parking lot at the end of Solkan, to which we can get by city bus from Nova Gorica or Šempeter.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we cross the Solkan bridge and then on its other side we notice signposts for Sabotin (south and north path). For the ascent to Sabotin on the north path, we first descend under the bridge, then walk on the path that runs along the Soča River and the railway upwards. The gentle, or level path, then takes us past HE Solkan and after approximately half an hour of walking from the starting point brings us to the mountain signposts, where we continue left upwards. The path ahead ascends moderately along an old military mule track to a nice viewpoint with a bench. Here the path turns left and after a further few minutes of ascent brings us to a path junction, where we have two options for continuing. We continue right in the direction of Sabotin (left to Sabotin, past the ruins of St. Valentin), on the path that gradually starts to ascend ever more steeply. The increasingly steep path brings us below the cliffs of the summit slope of Sabotin. The path then, with the help of steel cables in a moderate ascent, crosses the steep slope (undemanding) and then ascends to numerous caverns (it is good to have a lamp with you to walk through the tunnels). Before the caverns the path turns left and again with the help of steel cables ascends the steps. A steep ascent through military tunnels follows and the path brings us to the mountain hut Dom na Sabotinu. From the hut, we continue in the direction of the summit and the moderately steep and increasingly panoramic path brings us, after 15 minutes of walking from the hut, to the panoramic summit.
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