Sovodenj - Škofje (through Miklavževa grapa)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Gorenjo vas in Poljanska dolina (to here from Škofja Loka, new bypass 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. Further on, we drive along 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. Further on, we drive along 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. Further on, we drive along an ascending road which through Planina pri Cerknem, on a winding road, brings us to the pass Kladje, from where the road starts descending towards Sovodenj. When we arrive in 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 crossroads, where the road to Ermanovec branches off to the right. We head onto the mentioned road, which runs along a scenic stream and after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the next crossroads.
We continue straight (right Ermanovec by road) on the road which still runs along the already mentioned stream. The road then crosses the stream over a small bridge and brings us past a small hamlet to a marked junction.
We continue further on the road (left Ermanovec panoramic path) which we follow for only some 10 m to the nearby right bend. At the beginning of the bend, just before the road crosses the stream, we leave it and continue the ascent on the marked hiking path, which begins to ascend gently through Miklavževa grapa. The path then ascends for quite some time along the edge of the stream, then turns right and ascends more steeply. The well-marked path then crosses a cart track several times and joins it higher up. There follows a few minutes of somewhat gentler ascent on the cart track, which leads from the forest onto panoramic grassy slopes, after which we also arrive at the road. We continue right through a small hamlet and the road then brings us in moderate ascent to a crossroads near Koča na Ermanovcu. Here we continue left (right summit Ermanovec) 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 along the road, we arrive at a marked junction, where the path from Kopačnica joins us from the right.
From the crossroads, which is located in the main ridge of the 1005 m high Štor, we continue straight (right Kopačnica) along the fairly panoramic asphalt road, on which we arrive in a few minutes 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 across a grassy slope we enter the forest. Through the forest at several junctions we follow the blazes, and the path behind the building from the time of the Rapallo border begins to descend visibly. Lower down the path brings us out of the forest, from where a nice view of Škofje opens up. A few more steps lower, at the hamlet of a few houses, we step onto the asphalt road which leads from Koča na Ermanovcu towards the pass Kladje, which we follow to the right for a short time, then the next signs for Franja hospital direct us right onto a cart track, which continues descending. There follows a descent, first through the forest, then across a panoramic hayfield to the next well-marked junction, where the path from the pass Kladje also joins us from the left.
We continue the path straight (right Jeram - ICPP stamp) on the gentle cart track, which crosses a strip of forest, then without major changes in elevation brings us in a few minutes to the next marked junction. At the junction we merely cross the asphalt road (left downhill Cerkno and Franja hospital) and continue the path across a short grassy slope into the forest (we continue on the footpath and not on the nearby cart track). Further we ascend along the edge of the forest, the path leading right along the extensive grassy slope of Škofje. Higher up the path brings us out of the forest onto a panoramic grassy ridge, where it turns right and continues ascending along an increasingly panoramic ridge. There follows a gentle and very panoramic walk 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 1:20, Koča na Ermanovcu - Škofje 1:35.

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