Rovte - Sveti Urh (Zavratec) (through Trtovška grapa)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, then continue driving towards Gorenja vas and Žiri. From Žiri we continue driving on a somewhat more winding road towards Rovte and Logatec, which we follow to the road sign between 12 and 11.5 km, or to the spot where a macadam road towards Medvedje Brdo and Lanevše branches off to the right. We park at a suitable spot beside the road.
From Žiri (from the crossroad where the road towards Idrija branches off to the right) to the starting point is approximately 9.5 km.
B) From the Ljubljana-Koper motorway we take the Logatec exit, then continue driving to Logatec. From the roundabout where we reach the old Vrhnika-Postojna road, we continue right (direction Vrhnika) and continue driving on the old road towards Vrhnika, but drive on it only a few hundred metres, then turn left onto the road in the direction of Rovte and Žiri. Further on, we drive on a gradually more winding road to the road sign between 11.5 and 12 km. Here we reach a crossroad where a macadam road towards Medvedje Brdo and Lanevše branches off to the left. We park at a suitable spot beside the road.
C) We drive to Idrija, then continue driving towards Logatec. Still before the end of Idrija we turn left onto a steep road which starts ascending towards the village Gore. Higher up, we reach the plateau and the road flattens. At the crossroads we follow the signs towards the neighbouring settlement Dole and later the settlement Zavrate. After the end of the mentioned settlement we start descending towards the valley of Sovre, where we also reach the main road Žiri-Logatec. We follow the mentioned road to the right to the road sign between 12 and 11.5 km, or to the spot where a macadam road towards Medvedje Brdo and Lanevše branches off to the right. We park at a suitable spot beside the road.
From the spot where we reached the Žiri-Logatec road to the starting point there is approximately 1.5 km.

Route description:
From the starting point we continue on the macadam road in the direction of Medvedje Brdo and start ascending beside the Trtovška grapa stream. Further on we ascend gently for quite some time, then the road past some information boards brings us to a meadow, after which the road becomes somewhat steeper. On the section where the road becomes steeper we also climb out of the Trtovška grapa. A few minutes of traverse ascent to the left follows and we join an asphalt road, which we follow to the right to a sort of triangular junction near which there is a chapel.
From the mentioned junction we continue straight ahead (left: Medvedje Brdo - peak, church and Dom Medved), then past the fire station in a few minutes we arrive at the next junction, where we continue right in the direction of Zavratec and Vrh sv. Treh Kraljev. The path ahead leads us along a macadam road, which soon splits into two parts.
The marked path to Vrh sv. Treh Kraljev continues on the right road, while we continue on the left road in the direction of the village Zavratec and Potok. A few minutes of somewhat steeper descent follows, then we reach the village Potok, where the road becomes asphalt again. In the village the road flattens completely, leading us past a few houses and mainly across meadows. On the other side of the village the road enters the forest, where for a short time it gently descends beside the nearby stream, then before a solitary house it starts to ascend. When the road flattens a few minutes higher, we arrive at the sports ground, some ten paces further on also at the village Zavratec. A short descent follows and the road brings us to the church of St. Urh at Zavratec.

Along the route: Potok (730m)

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