Cerkno - Veliki vrh (Lajše)

Access to starting point:
From the road Idrija - Tolmin we drive to Cerkno, where we park on one of the parking lots in the center, or periphery of the town.

Path description:
From Cerkno we continue on the main asphalt road towards Škofja Loka. For some time we walk on or by the main road, by which we notice a few rare blazes. After approximately 20 minutes of not very safe walking (because we walk on a winding and occasionally also quite busy main road), the road makes the first sharp left turn. Just before the mentioned turn, blazes point us to the right on a side road, on which we get to a smaller hamlet. We walk past a few houses, then asphalt is replaced by macadam, and we follow the road only a few 10 steps, because then blazes point us left on an ascending and marked cart track (to here also possible with a car, this shortens the path by less than 30 minutes, and at the same time we avoid walking on the main road).
On the cart track we quickly ascend to the nearby meadow, on its upper edge the marked path turns right into the forest. There follows a few minutes' ascent through dense forest, then we cross the forest road and continue the ascent on the marked path. Higher we once again cross the road and a few cart tracks, then we emerge from the forest, where we reach a smaller wooden cottage. Above the cottage the cart track on which we walk turns left, we leave it here and ascend over an initially steep grassy slope to the nearby homestead, where we step onto the road. On the road we walk only a short time, then blazes point us right onto a wide cart track, which higher splits into two parts. We continue on the left one, which soon flattens completely, then brings us in crossing the slopes to the left to a smaller hamlet. Behind the hamlet, from which a nice view opens onto the surrounding hills, the cart track, or from here onward a poorer road, begins to ascend moderately and after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the center of the village Podlanišče, where there is a marked junction.
From the marked junction at Podlanišče we continue right on the asphalt road in the direction of Lajše, Bevkov vrh and Sivka. The path first leads past houses, behind them a marked path to Bevkov vrh branches off to the left, we continue straight and continue on the asphalt road. The road then crosses a strip of forest, after which we arrive at a panoramic grassy slope. With a view of Škofje, Porezen, Kojca and part of the chain of the Lower Bohinj Mountains, we walk past a smaller hamlet, then the road brings us to a smaller junction, where we continue right downhill in the direction of the shrine at Lajše.
We continue on the macadam road, which begins to descend moderately, and after crossing a strip of forest it flattens completely. Here another path to Bevkov vrh branches off to the left, and the gentle road running across an extensive meadow quickly brings us to the next junction, where we continue right and after a few steps arrive at a small church (shrine at Lajše), which is located a few 10 m from the path.
From the shrine we continue on the slightly ascending road, which brings us to the quarry, where we continue on the left road. The road quickly ascends above the quarry, then slowly turns toward the right. We follow this occasionally more panoramic road all the way to the summit, which we reach after a few minutes of further walking.

On the way: Kladje (787m), Svetišče na Lajšah (830m)