Hotavlje - Kucelj (above Kopačnica) (via village Studor)

Access to starting point:
A) From Železniki, Kranj or Medvode we drive to Škofja Loka, and from there we continue driving in the direction of Gorenja vas in the valley Poljanska dolina and Žiri. After Gorenja vas, in the settlement Hotavlje, at the crossroad behind inn Gostilna Lipan we leave the main road towards Žiri and we continue driving right in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Still before the end of Hotavlje we turn right in the direction of the path on Blegoš, company Marmor Hotavlje and Loška zadruga (straight - Kopačnica, Leskovica and ski slope Cerkno). After approximately 100 meters from the crossroad we get to Loška zadruga, where we park.
B) From Horjul or Polhov Gradec we drive to Lučine, from there we descend into Gorenja vas. In Gorenja vas we continue left towards Žiri, after that in Hotavlje at the crossroad behind inn Gostilna Lipan we continue right in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Still before the end of Hotavlje we turn right in the direction of the path on Blegoš, company Marmor Hotavlje and Loška zadruga (straight - Kopačnica, Leskovica and ski slope Cerkno). After approximately 100 meters from the crossroad we get to Loška zadruga, where we park.
C) From Vrhnika, Logatec or Spodnja Idrija we drive to Žiri, and from there we continue driving towards Gorenja vas and Škofja Loka, and we drive on the main road only to the settlement Hotavlje, where we turn left in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Still before the end of Hotavlje we turn right in the direction of the path on Blegoš, company Marmor Hotavlje and Loška zadruga (straight - Kopačnica, Leskovica and ski slope Cerkno). After approximately 100 meters from the crossroad we get to Loška zadruga, where we park.
D) First, we drive to Cerkno, and from there we continue driving through saddle Kladje (Podlanišče) towards Sovodenj. From Sovodenj we continue driving by the stream Hobovščica, and then in a little larger crossroad we continue left in the direction of Gorenja vas (right Žiri). On the main road towards Škofja Loka we drive to the settlement Hotavlje, where we turn left in the direction of the ski slope Cerkno and village Leskovica. Still before the end of Hotavlje we turn right in the direction of the path on Blegoš, company Marmor Hotavlje and Loška zadruga (straight - Kopačnica, Leskovica and ski slope Cerkno). After approximately 100 meters from the crossroad we get to Loška zadruga, where we park.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the road ahead, and it quickly brings us to the company Marmor Hotavlje, after which Hotavlje ends. The path ahead leads us along the stream Volaščica, and at the nearby crossroad, we go left in the direction of Volaka and Čabrače (right - Suša and Malenski Vrh). We quickly get to Volaka, where we continue straight (right - Sveta Jedert and Blegoš), and then we for quite some time still walk along Volaščica.
A little further from the crossroad, we continue slightly left in the direction of village Debeni, Studor and Leskovica, and short time we continue by the stream Studorščica, from which we go away at the left turn. Higher, we leave a dense forest and with occasional views we get to the settlement Debeni, where we notice an older blaze. An asphalt road higher brings us to the village Studor, where on the right by first houses we notice a rocky religious symbol, and at the first crossroad we go left, and a little further and behind the hayrack once again left on the forest road which for some time moderately descends. Next follows traversing slopes of Jurežev vrh (866 meters), and then we already get to slopes of Kucelj (920 meters), where the road starts considerably ascending. Still before the road leaves the forest, we go from there slightly right on a cart track which brings us out of the forest on meadows of a smaller plateau Makovc, where a view opens up on Blegoš and where from the left joins the path via Srednje Brdo.
Here we continue slightly right and with a view on surrounding hills we get to a smaller saddle, where we leave a wider cart track and we go right on a little narrower cart track, and from there immediately left on a cart track which diagonally ascends towards the left. A little further, we again leave the forest into which we entered on a smaller saddle and we are then ascending with nice views on the sunny side slopes of Kucelj. After the panoramic part, we return into the forest, and after few minutes we join also a marked path from Kopačnica.
Here we go right and in few 10 strides of additional walking, we reach 920 meters high peak.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in January 2021.

On the way: Volaka (460m), Debeni (680m), Studor (730m)