Vrčice - Dom na Mirni gori (via Škrilj)
Starting point: Vrčice (481 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.6479°N 15.1415°E 
Path name: via Škrilj
Time of walking: 2 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 519 m
Altitude difference (by path): 550 m
Map: Dolenjska - Gorjanci, Kočevski Rog 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana–Brežice motorway, take the Ivančna Gorica exit, then continue driving towards Črnomelj. After Črmošnjice, the road ascends for a short time longer, then starts descending more steeply and brings us to the village of Vrčice, where the described path begins. There are no organised parking spaces for hikers in the settlement. An organised parking lot is in the settlement of Blatnik pri Črmošnjicah.
B) From the Brežice–Ljubljana motorway, take the Novo mesto exit, then continue driving towards Dolenjske Toplice and Podturn pri Dolenjskih Toplicah. In Podturn, join the main road Ivančna Gorica–Črnomelj and follow it to the left towards Črnomelj. After Črmošnjice, the road ascends for a short time longer, then starts descending more steeply and brings us to the village of Vrčice, where the described path begins. There are no organised parking spaces for hikers in the settlement. An organised parking lot is in the settlement of Blatnik pri Črmošnjicah.
C) From Bela Krajina, first drive to Semič, then continue driving towards Črmošnjice and Soteska. Still before the road starts descending, we arrive in Vrčice, where the described path begins. There are no organised parking spaces for hikers in the settlement. An organised parking lot is in the settlement of Blatnik pri Črmošnjicah.
Path description:
From Vrčice, head onto the macadam road towards Kleč, Planina and Mirna gora. The macadam road quickly descends to the church of St. Martin, before which we step onto the asphalt road leading to Mirna gora, which we follow to the right. The road first leads past a few houses, then transitions into the forest, where it begins to ascend more steeply. Shortly after the asphalt ends, we arrive at a marked junction, where we continue on the right road (left access to Mirna gora by car), and hiking signposts also direct us there. Further on, we ascend the macadam road for some time, then the marked path leaves it briefly and returns to it at the memorial plaque or stone. We continue the ascent on the road, which gradually flattens and brings us out of the forest to a less vegetated area named Kleč.
Here the path leads past the nearby hunting lodge Kleč and the ruins of the former church, to the next junction.
At the junction, where there are numerous signposts, we choose the right path (left Mirna gora via Planina), which continues on a slightly ascending macadam road. The road brings us higher to the former Kočevje village Škrilj, in which in 1941 there were still 6 houses and 26 residents. Here in the left bend, from the right the path from the village Brezovica pri Črmošnjicah joins us, and the path leads past a stone bajta, behind which we soon arrive at the next marked junction, where we leave the road.
The signs for Mirna gora direct us slightly left into the forest, where the path continues without major changes in elevation. A short descent follows, ending at the nearby macadam road, which we merely cross. We continue briefly on a cart track, then the markers direct us right onto a relatively steep footpath, which continues through the forest. Higher, the path turns somewhat to the left and brings us out of the forest onto a grassy slope, across which we ascend transversely to the mountain hut Dom na Mirni gori.
On the way: Kleč (645m), Škrilj (860m)
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