Podlanišče - Ermanovec

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Gorenja vas in the valley Poljanska dolina (to here from Škofja Loka, new bypass road 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 through Poljanska Sora, we leave the main road towards Žiri and we continue driving right in the direction of Cerkno. Further, we drive on a little more winding road, on which we quickly get to the settlement Sovodenj. From Sovodenj we continue slightly right, and we still follow the ascending road to the settlement Podlanišče or mountain pass Kladje, where we park on an appropriate place by the mountain pass.
B) We drive to Žiri (to here from Vrhnika or Logatec), and then we continue driving towards Škofja Loka. Before settlement Trebija we turn left, on the road in the direction of Cerkno. Further, we drive on a little more winding road, on which we quickly get to the settlement Sovodenj. From Sovodenj we continue slightly right, and we still follow the ascending road to the settlement Podlanišče or mountain pass Kladje, where we park on an appropriate place by the mountain pass.
C) We drive to Cerkno, and from there we continue driving in the direction of Škofja Loka. Further, we drive on an ascending road which through Planina pri Cerknem, on a winding road brings us to mountain pass Kladje, where we park on an appropriate place by the road.

Path description:
From the mountain pass Kladje in Podlanišče we continue towards the east, on the road in the direction of Ermanovec. The road at first ascends past few houses, and then we get to the spot, where the marked path branches off to the left on Škofje, and we still continue on the road. The road for a short time continues through the forest and then alternately through the meadow and again through the forest, and in doing so, we bypass few individual houses. Higher, on the area named Laniška ravan, from the left joins the path from hospital Franja (also the path from Cerkno - path through Planina pri Cerknem and the path from Škofje), and only a little further, at the smaller hamlet we continue slightly left on the road in the direction of the footpath on Ermanovec. On the macadam road in few 10 strides we ascend on a panoramic ridge and there signs for Ermanovec point us slightly to the right on a cart track, on which we quickly ascend to the forest. We continue through the forest, where at the crossings we follow the blazes, and the path brings us to fortresses of former Rapallo border, where the path flattens. A little further, we step out of the forest and then in a gentle descent, we walk to an asphalt road which we left a while back, and we reach it through the yard of the nearby house.
When we step on the road, we continue in the direction of Ermanovec, and the path at first leads past the information board (Rapallo border trail), and a little further also past an old chapel, behind which from the left joins also a marked path from Kopačnica.
We continue straight, and then in few minutes we get to the mountain hut Koča na Ermanovcu.
From the mountain hut, we continue straight (left Štor 5 minutes), and at the first crossroad, where the path branches off to the right towards the farm Žunar, again straight. On the road, we walk for few minutes, and then from the crossroad at the chapel and a bell we continue slightly right on a cart track in the direction of the summit of Ermanovec (straight on the road Hotavlje and Slajka, right also on the road Sovodenj), on which start gently ascending on a panoramic ridge. When the cart track turns a little to the right, we continue slightly left, on a footpath which ascends through a little steeper grassy slope straight towards the summit. A little below the summit, the path flattens and brings us into the forest, where there is the peak of Ermanovec.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2016 (January).

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

Trip can be extended to: Štor