Vrtovin - Veliki Rob

Access to starting point:
A) From the Razdrto - Nova Gorica highway, we take the Ajdovščina exit, then at the crossroads turn left towards Nova Gorica. We continue along the regional road towards Nova Gorica to the settlement of Vrtovin, where in the middle of the village we turn right towards Čavna. We follow the road, which then ascends through the village, at the crossroads in the direction of St. Pavel, Kuclja and Čavna. We park on a small parking lot at the end of the village, near the mountain signposts.
B) From the Nova Gorica - Razdrto highway, we take the Selo exit, then when we reach the old Nova Gorica - Ajdovščina road, we continue right towards Nova Gorica. Along the regional road towards Ajdovščina, we drive to the settlement of Vrtovin, where in the middle of the village we turn left towards Čavna. We follow the road, which then ascends through the village, at the crossroads in the direction of St. Pavel, Kuclja and Čavna. We park on a small parking lot at the end of the village, near the mountain signposts.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the left road in the direction of Kuclja and St. Pavel. After a few minutes of walking, the road brings us to a path junction, where the mountain path to Kucelj and Čaven branches off to the right upward (straight ahead still on the road to St. Pavel). We continue the ascent on a marked, partly rocky cart track which ascends through an occasionally thin forest. A little higher we arrive at a marked junction, where we continue slightly left in the direction of Kuclja (right Mala gora and Čaven).
The well-marked cart track, which we follow in the direction of Kuclja, brings us a little higher to a forest road, which we only cross. The path ahead ascends gently through a thin forest, but only to the spot where the path from Sveti Pavel joins us from the left.
The path ahead starts to ascend steeply through the forest, through which we then ascend for quite some time. Higher, we cross the Srednječavensko pot, above which the forest slowly starts to thin. A little higher still, the path approaches completely the old road connection between the Vipava Valley and the Trnovski gozd plateau.
Right at the spot where we approach the mentioned road or cart track completely, we leave the mountain path that leads to Kucelj and continue the ascent on the road, along which we begin to ascend diagonally to the left. After a good 10 minutes of walking, the road levels out and brings us to the edge of the plateau, where a path joins us from the right that leads from the Koča na Čavnu hut via Kuclja to Veliki rob.
From here we continue another 10 m or so on the poorer road, then the signs for Veliki rob direct us left onto a footpath which starts to ascend gradually along the southern slopes of Trnovski gozd. The occasionally quite panoramic path higher retreats from the ridge somewhat to the right and for a short time enters a dense forest, where the path from Krnica joins us from the right. After a short descent, the path starts ascending again, bringing us from the forest into a belt of dwarf pines, where it then continues along and beside an occasionally quite steep ridge. We follow this path, from which beautiful views open up, all the way to Veliki rob.

Trip can be extended to: Kucelj na Čavnu