Strma Reber - Cerk

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Ribnica, and then we continue driving towards Kočevje. After Dolenja vas we continue right in the direction of Grčarice, Gotenica and Kočevska Reka. In Kočevska Reka we continue right in the direction of Borovca pri Kočevski Reki, mountain pass Strma Reber and Osilnica. In Borovec we once again continue right, and then past hamlet Ravne in a few kilometers we get to mountain pass Strma Reber, which is situated at an altitude of 993 m. From the mountain pass a short descent follows, and then we get to a larger parking lot, where on the left side we notice also map of Kočevska mountain trail and mountain signposts for Firstov rep and Cerk. From a crossroad, where we leave the main road Ribnica - Kočevje is approximately 30 km of relatively nice asphalt road.
B) From Kočevje we drive towards the border crossing Petrina, and then at the end of the settlement Štalcerji we continue right towards Kočevska Reka. In Kočevska Reka we continue left in the direction of Borovec pri Kočevski Reki, mountain pass Strma Reber and Osilnica. In Borovec we continue right, and then past hamlet Ravne in a few kilometers we get to mountain pass Strma Reber, which is situated at an altitude of 993 m. From the mountain pass a short descent follows, and then we get to a larger parking lot, where on the left side we notice also map of Kočevska mountain trail and mountain signposts for Firstov rep and Cerk. From the crossroad, where we leave the main road Kočevje - Petrina is approximately 18 km of asphalt road.
C) From Osilnica or Sel pri Osilnici we continue in the direction of settlements Žurge, Padovo pri Osilnici, Zgornji Čačič and mountain pass Strma Reber. Further, we drive on at first slightly winding, and higher serpentine road which after nineteen marked hairpin turns brings us to a crossroad, which is located only a few 100 m before the mountain pass Strma Reber. At the crossroad there is a large macadam parking lot on both sides of the road, a "cottage" in which there is sand for sprinkling (sand for the purpose of road maintenance workers), on which there is a map of Kočevska mountain trail. We park on the mentioned parking lot. From the center of Osilnica to the starting point is 8.5 km.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue towards the east, on the road in the direction of Cerk and Firstov rep. The path leads us on the forest road, from which already after a few minutes a marked path branches off to the right.
We continue on the marked path (it is also possible to continue on the unmarked road, since the marked path later returns to the mentioned road, and the road path is also somewhat shorter), which passes into a dense forest. Through the forest we first start to ascend moderately, carefully following the blazes, because otherwise the easy-to-follow path is relatively poorly trodden. When the path flattens a little higher, we bypass the indistinct peak Luknja (1079 m) on the left side, to which we can ascend on easier pathless terrain in a few minutes; otherwise, we continue on the marked path, which, as mentioned, bypasses the peak on the left side. Then follow a few shorter ascents and descents, followed by a somewhat longer descent that ends when we reach the macadam road.
When we reach the road, we continue left (right Firstov rep and Loška stena), and after one or two more minutes of walking we arrive at the crossroad by the NOB monument, where the road leading from our starting point joins from the left.
We continue right, past the monument, and continue the path on the macadam road. Higher up, at the smaller crossroad we continue left, then after a few minutes we arrive at the marked junction, where a marked path from the hunting cottage at Ravne also joins.
The signs for Cerk direct us right onto the cart track. We follow the well-marked but occasionally quite overgrown cart track all the way to the small clearing below the summit of Cerk. Here we continue slightly left and then follow the somewhat steeper path all the way to the summit of Cerk.