Col - Križna gora (Hrušica)

Access to starting point:
A) From highway Razdrto - Nova Gorica we go to the exit Ajdovščina, and then we continue driving in the direction of Col and Idrija. When we get to Col we turn left towards Predmeja and then after few meters right on a parking lot opposite of the parish church in Col. We can also park on a parking lot by nearby sports field.
B) We drive to Logatec, and from there we continue driving towards Idrija. At the end of the settlement Kalce we turn left in the direction of Podkraj and Col, after that on a little more winding road at first we get to Podkraj, and then on a little more flat road also to Cola. In Col, where we join the road from Ajdovščina we continue right, and after few 10 meters left in the direction of Predmeja. Towards Predmeja we drive only few meters, because immediately after the crossroad we turn right on a parking lot opposite of the church of St. Lenart.
C) We drive to Idrija, and then we continue driving towards Logatec. When we get to Godovič we leave the main road towards Logatec and we continue driving right in the direction of Črni Vrh, Col and Ajdovščina. When we get to Col we turn right towards Otlica and Predmeja and then once again right on the nearby parking lot opposite of the church.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return to the main road Ajdovščina - Godovič, and then we walk there towards Godovič, but only to a crossroad, where signs for Vodice point us to the right on a little narrower road. Asphalt road then leads us past few more houses and footwear factory, and then gradually passes into the forest, through which it starts moderately ascending. Further for quite some time, we walk on the road, and then blazes point us slightly right on a marked footpath which already after few minutes returns on the road. The road then brings us to a marked crossroad, where we continue left in the direction of Vodice (right Vodice house number 1 and 2 and Podkraj). Only a little further, we get to the next crossing, where a macadam road towards Sveti Duh branches off sharply to the right (straight road which leads towards Vodice, slightly right marked path on Javornik).
We go on a macadam road in the direction of Sveti Duh, where already after few steps we step out of the forest by the bottom part of meadow, where there is a house or holiday cottage. In front of the house there is an interesting wooden sculpture in the shape of a bear with offspring, behind the house the road already returns into the forest. Through the forest, the road is gently to moderately ascending, and higher from the right also joins worse road or cart track from the homestead Fratar. A little further from the left turn narrower forest road branches off to the right, which higher ends and changes into a cart track, on which it is possible to ascent towards Križna gora (road and the cart track are unmarked, but cart track little below the summit joins the marked path), and we continue left and we still continue on a wide macadam road. Higher from the road, a view opens up a little towards Golaki, hills above plateau Gora and Vodice, where we clearly see individual homesteads. We continue on the road which in the last part, with exception of zig-zags is ascending towards the east. Above the last two zig-zags road splits into two parts, namely left which continues towards Vodice and right which leads towards the church of the Holy Spirit.
From the crossing, we continue slightly right, where by the road we notice signs for Sveti Duh (path from the spot, where we left asphalt and to this crossroad wasn't marked), further are also occasional old blazes. After further shorter ascent, at the smaller crossroad we continue sharply right (signs for Sveti Duh), on the road which soon flattens and turns to the left, where passes on more plain terrain. Here branches off to the left path towards the church of the Holy Spirit, in the direction of straight continues well-beaten marked path towards Podkraj, and we continue right in the direction of Križna gora. The path continues on more plateau terrain through the forest. Soon at the crossing we notice signs for Škol, to where there is a minute of walking from the marked path to the right (Škol is slightly precipitous viewpoint, from which a nice view opens up, which reaches all the way to the Alps), and we continue straight on a marked path, which only a little further brings us to a smaller crossing, where we continue right in the direction of Križna gora (from the left comes shortcut of gentle path from Podkraj). Next follows traversing, after which we get to the next smaller crossing. This time we continue left (from the direction straight joins in the upper part of the description mentioned unmarked cart track) and in few minutes we are already at the lookout tower on Križna gora.