Sovodenj - Škofje (razgledna pot)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Gorenja vas in Poljanska dolina (to here from Škofja Loka, new bypass road which bypasses Škofja Loka, Horjul or Polhov Gradec), and then we continue driving towards Žiri and Cerkno. After the settlement Trebija and just before the bridge over Poljanska Sora, we leave the main road towards Žiri and continue driving right in the direction of Cerkno. In the continuation, we drive on a somewhat more winding road, on which we quickly arrive at the settlement Sovodenj, where we park in the center of the settlement.
B) We drive to Žiri (to here from Vrhnika or Logatec), and then we continue driving towards Škofja Loka. Before the settlement Trebija, we turn left, onto the road in the direction of Cerkno. In the continuation, we drive on a somewhat more winding road, on which we quickly arrive at the settlement Sovodenj, where we park between the store and the fire station.
C) We drive to Cerkno, and from there we continue driving in the direction of Škofja Loka. In the continuation, we drive on an ascending road which through Planina pri Cerknem, on a winding road brings us to the mountain pass Kladje, from where the road starts descending towards Sovodenj. When we arrive at Sovodenj, we park on the parking lot in the middle of the settlement.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the asphalt road in the direction of Ermanovec and Cerkno. After a few minutes of ascent on the main road, we arrive at a marked junction, where the road branches off to the right to Ermanovec. We head onto this road, which runs along a scenic stream and after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the next junction.
We continue straight (right Ermanovec on the road) on the road which still runs along the previously mentioned stream. The road then crosses the stream over a smaller bridge and past a smaller hamlet brings us to a marked junction.
We continue sharply left in the direction of Ermanovec on the scenic path (straight Ermanovec through Miklavževa grapa). Further, we ascend on a cart track which soon passes from the forest onto panoramic grassy slopes. A little higher, the path brings us to a smaller hamlet, where we also step onto the road, on which we then continue the ascent. The road then past a smaller cross brings us to a junction, where we go right in the direction of Ermanovec. The road, which further slightly ascends, quickly brings us to the next junction, where we continue straight in the direction of Ermanovec.
From the increasingly worse road, only a little further to the right branches off a marked cart track, which crosses a shorter strip of forest. The cart track, which only crosses the slopes, then passes onto a somewhat larger clearing, after which it brings us into dense forest. The cart track then starts to ascend, higher it passes out of the forest and then brings us to an asphalt road, on which we then ascend.
Here from the right soon joins the path through Miklavževa grapa, and the road then past a smaller hamlet brings us to a junction near the Koča na Ermanovcu mountain hut. Here we continue left (right Ermanovec peak) and after a few further steps we arrive at the mentioned mountain hut.
From the hut, we continue in the direction of Bevkov vrh, after approximately 5 minutes of further walking on the road, we arrive at a marked junction, where from the right joins the path from Kopačnica.
From the junction, which is located in the main ridge of the 1005 m high Štor, we continue straight (right Kopačnica) on a fairly panoramic asphalt road, on which in a few minutes we arrive at the information board of the Rapallo border and the renovated border stone from 1920.
A few steps further, the signs for Franja hospital direct us right onto a macadam road which leads us through the yard of the nearby house. On the other side of the house, we continue left onto a cart track, on which over a grassy slope we pass into the forest. Through the forest at a few junctions we follow the blazes, and the path after the building from the time of the Rapallo border starts to descend visibly. Lower, the path brings us out of the forest, from where a nice view opens onto Škofje. A few more steps lower, at the hamlet of a few houses, we step onto the asphalt road which leads from the Koča na Ermanovcu towards the Kladje pass, which we follow briefly to the right, then the next signs for Franja hospital direct us right onto a cart track which continues descending. A descent follows, first through the forest, then across a panoramic hayfield to the next well-marked junction, where from the left also joins the path from the Kladje pass.
We continue the path straight (right Jeram - ICPP stamp) on a gentle cart track which crosses a strip of forest, then without major changes in elevation in a few minutes brings us to the next marked junction. At the junction we only cross the asphalt road (left downhill Cerkno and Franja hospital) and continue the path across a shorter grassy slope into the forest (continue on the footpath and not on the nearby cart track). Further, we ascend along the edge of the forest, the path leads us right along the extensive grassy slope of Škofje. Higher, the path brings us out of the forest onto a panoramic grassy ridge, where it turns right and further ascends along an increasingly panoramic ridge. A gentle and very panoramic walk follows along the grassy ridge (nice view of Kojca and Porezen), then the path enters the forest and after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the summit of Škofje.
Sovodenj - Koča na Ermanovcu 1:40, Koča na Ermanovcu - Škofje 1:35.

On the way: Koča na Ermanovcu mountain hut (968m), Vrata (831m)