Drnulk - Vrh Skopice

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Idrija, and then we continue driving towards Tolmin. When we get to Dolenja Trebuša we leave the main road and we continue driving left towards Čepovan. At the next crossroad, where the road on Oblakov Vrh branches off to the left, we continue right and drive ahead past the church in Dolenja Trebuša. A bit higher, the road again splits into two parts. This time we continue slightly right (slightly left Gorenja Trebuša), we cross river Trebuščica and then we start steeply ascending towards the mountain pass Drnulk. After the mountain pass, the macadam road starts descending and after few 10 meters of additional driving brings us to a smaller crossroad by which we park. At the starting point are signs for Vrše and Skopica. From the inn Gostilna Podkorito in Dolenja Trebuša to the starting point, there is approximately 8.5 km of driving.
B) From Most na Soči or Podbrdo we drive to Bača pri Modreju, and then we continue driving towards Postaja and forward towards Čepovan. At first, a pretty steep road higher flattens and it brings us to Čepovanski dol. Here the road for some time continues without large changes in altitude, and then still before we get to the center of the settlement, brings us to a crossroad, where a road branches off to the left towards the mountain pass Drnulk and Dolenja Trebuša. We continue towards the mountain pass Drnulk and we follow the road for approximately 2 km, or to the crossroad, where a worse forest road branches off to the left towards the pasture Vrše. We park on an appropriate place by the crossroad. From Postaja to the starting point, there is approximately 14 km.
C) First, we drive to Nova Gorica or to Solkan, and then we continue driving towards Lokve, Grgar, Čepovan and Sveta gora. A little above the quarry, we get to a crossroad, from there we continue driving towards Grgar and Čepovan. Further, the road brings us to Čepovanski dol, through which it is still slightly to moderately ascending. A little further, we get to the center of the settlement Čepovan, and we follow the road through Čepovanski dol we follow only to the next crossroad. At the crossroad, we continue right towards the mountain pass Drnulk and Dolenja Trebuša and we follow the road for approximately 2 km, or to a crossroad, where a worse forest road branches off to the left towards the pasture Vrše. We park on an appropriate place by the crossroad. From Solkan to the starting point, there is approximately 20 km.
D) From the direction Ajdovščina, we at first drive to Predmeja, and then we continue driving towards Lokve and forward towards Čepovan. From Lokve, the road starts descending steeper towards Čepovan. In Čepovan we continue right and then at the end of the dense part of the settlement again right, this time in the direction of the mountain pass Drnulk and Dolenja Trebuša. We continue towards the mountain pass Drnulk and we follow the road for approximately 2 km, or to the crossroad, where a worse forest road branches off to the left towards the pasture Vrše. We park on an appropriate place by the crossroad. From Predmeja to the starting point, there is approximately 19 km.

Path description:
From the crossroad near the mountain pass Drnulk, we go on a bad forest road in the direction of Velike and Male Vrše and Skopica. The road soon steeply ascends and takes us into the forest. Higher, the road flattens, and the path brings us out of the forest on ample and occasionally panoramic pastures of Velike Vrše. At the crossing, where a worse road turns right, we continue left in the direction of SVPB (partisan hospital Pavla) and Male Vrše. We continue on a gradually worse cart track which at the nearby ruins of former residential houses finally ends. The path ahead leads us past the beech avenue to a larger panoramic meadow, at the end of which we turn slightly left.
We then cross a grazing fence, and the path leads in the forest, where we notice the first blazes (the path until now was marked, but without trail blazes). When we step into the forest, the path from some sort of small plateau passes on slopes and continues diagonally towards the right. Next follows few shorter ascents and descents, and then we get to the ruins of a former partisan hospital Pavla. Here at the smaller crossing, we continue right and after few 10 meters we get to the information board and nearby NOB monument.
Only a little further from the information board, we step on a newer forest road, and we follow it to the right. The path ahead leads us past a meadow with the hunting observatory, and after few 10 meters of additional walking, we get to a small saddle, where the path on Vrh Skopice branches off to the right. We continue on the mountain path, on which in 2 minutes of additional walking, we step on a panoramic peak.
From the top, we can on the ridge descend also to the nearby viewpoint, from which a nice view opens up also into a valley.

On the way: Velike Vrše (909m), Male Vrše (888m), Partizanska bolnišnica Pavla (860m)