Reka (Kozarska grapa) - Črvov vrh (via Kozarska grapa)

Access to starting point:
A) From Idrija or Cerkno we drive towards Tolmin, where in the settlement Reka we need to pay attention to the approaching beginning of the path. When we get to the bridge, where the main road crosses the stream Kozarska grapa and where on the right we notice a carpentry workshop, we turn left and we park on a widened asphalt by the main road.
B) We drive to Bača pri Modreju (to here from Most na Soči or Podbrdo), and then we continue driving towards Idrija. In the settlement Reka, right behind the bridge, where we cross the stream Kozarska grapa, we turn right and we park on a widened asphalt by the main road.

Path description:
From the starting point, we cross the stream Kozarska grapa (also Kazarska grapa) and right behind the bridge, we turn right on a cart track which continues on the right bank of the stream, to a holiday cottage. Just before the holiday cottage, left uphill leads a shortcut, if we don't want to walk through the gully. The shortcut soon has a crossing. We follow the right variant and there we come to a crossing at Lipje. Here the path joins, which be described further.
If we go through the gully Kozarska grapa, we bypass the holiday cottage and through the passage below the leaned tower, we continue to abandoned power plant. We bypass it on the left side and we follow the route of an abandoned pipeline. On the right bank, we walk to the exit of the stream from the gorge. Here we cross to the left bank and we ascend through the steep gully (gully Železna grapa), to an altitude where we can safely continue parallel with the gorge. We soon run into a footpath and we follow it along the stream upwards. When we get to the rapids, above which we can see walls of climbing area Lutne skale, we bypass them on the right side, or even better, with climbing over the boulders, right by the water. We continue to the bridge, where we cross to the right bank and we follow the cart track, back in the direction of arrival. When the cart track splits, we follow the right branch uphill. On this path we reach the crossing on Lipje, where on the other side, we look into a riverbed of the stream Poličanka.
About twenty meters before the peak, left out of the forest an already mentioned shortcut joins.
If we continue towards the village Police, we go on a cart track which from the crossing runs right uphill. The cart track which is in parts interrupted because of the amelioration of a meadow, we follow by the forest. When a power line crosses a meadow, we descend on a cart track into a gully of Poličanka. Which we cross and on the right, more distinct cart track, we continue upwards. We soon reach an asphalt road, on which we turn left and after a little less than a kilometer of walking, we get to the village Police, where at first the road branches off to the left to the nearby church, and a little further from the left joins the path which leads through the gully Sjaunk (Sejalnik), where there is one of the options to descent into the valley. At the smaller crossroad, we continue slightly left, and at the next slightly right in the direction of Šentviška Gora (slightly left Police house number 20-23).
Here, the asphalt ends, and already after few steps we get to the next crossing, where on the bottom path (cart track) continues a marked path towards Šentviška Gora, and we go on the upper path and we continue on the macadam road. Next follows mostly a diagonal ascent on slopes of Košarica (961 meters), from where occasionally a nice view opens up, and the path leads us also past two streams, at the second there is also a nicely settled trough, where we can fill the water. Further, from the slope we get to plateau and past few houses we get to the asphalt road Šentviška Gora - Bukovo Vrh.
We follow the road to the left (right Bukovski Vrh) and in few steps we get to the next crossroad from which we continue right in the direction of Gorski Vrh.
After the crossroad, the road slightly descends, and then it starts ascending steeper and leads us past the homestead Travnikar, and a little higher it brings us to the next crossroad.
To the left the road continues towards the settlement Ponikve, and to the right road towards the settlement Bukovski Vrh, and we continue straight on a beaten unmarked footpath which at first ascends through a meadow, after that for some time passes into the forest, where we cross the first grazing fence, when we step out of the forest we cross the fence two more times.
Here we join the path from the village Ponikve, and we continue straight towards Črvov vrh, where we already see antenna tower. Follows few minutes of a moderate ascent, after the crossing of a grazing fence to the top separates us only few steps of easy walking.
We can descend through the gully of the stream Sjaunk (Sejalnik), through which leads a relatively easy to follow footpath or on the ridge which is mentioned in the description of the path through the gully Poliška grapa, or we can also descend on an asphalt road.
The starting point - Police 1:45, Police - Črvov vrh 1:30.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in December 2019 and February and March 2020.
Pictures to number 37 are contributed by Mari Božnar and Tadeja Črv.

On the way: Police (550m), Gorski Vrh (827m)