Grahovo ob Bači (Brelih) - Bukovski vrh (via homestead Pušnik)

Access to starting point:
We drive into Baška grapa or to the settlement Grahovo ob Bači, where we turn on a side road in the direction of Zakojca, Bukovo and a railway station. Next follows some descent, and after crossing the railway track, we go left towards Bukovo (right railway station Grahovo) and we start ascending. Next follows an ascent in few hairpin turns, when we get to a crossroad, where the road branches off sharply to the right to the near and from the road visible homestead Brelih, there is the beginning of the described path. We park on an appropriate place by the road about 200 meters ahead in the direction towards Bukovo, or already lower by the road.
To the starting point, we can get to also on foot from the railway station Grahovo, for that we need approximately 30 minutes.

Path description:
From the crossroad near the homestead Brelih, we continue sharply right and we walk to the mentioned homestead, and behind it we continue on a cart track which ascends diagonally on a grassy slope and leads towards the homestead Pušnik. During the ascent on a grassy slope a nice view opens up on Baška grapa and the peak Kotel on the other side of the valley, and we go also past the information board of themed trail Na svoji zemlji. Higher, we reach the western to northwestern ridge, where the path turns left, and we still continue on a cart track.
Here a nice view opens up on Črvov vrh, and at the crossing, we choose the left cart track, on which in few minutes of additional walking, we get to homestead Pušnik.
The residential house we bypass on the right side, and then we go from the cart track left over a grazing fence (path which continues straight is because of the sleet in February 2014 practically impassable). Only a little further, the footpath for some time ends, and we continue on a grassy slope somehow towards the east to southeast, where soon appears a relatively easy to follow footpath. The footpath soon turns to the left and then through a meadow ascends diagonally on a forested ridge, where it turns right. We continue on a followable forest footpath which higher turns left and crosses slopes.
We don't cross long, when we reach the indistinct ridge, where with some attention we notice a cairn, which points us to the right, on a slope or ridge straight upwards, and on parts we can sense traces of predecessors. The pathless ascent lasts only few minutes and we already reach a newer cart track which we follow to the right. Here at first a nice view opens up, which reaches all the way to Matajur, and a little ahead from the right joins already mentioned because of the sleet hardly passable path. From here we walk on a cart track few more strides, and then we go from the cart track left on a grassy slope of Bukovski vrh (if we continue straight we can ascend on Črvov vrh). Next follows an ascent on the mentioned grassy slope, where on easier pathless terrain and crossing of few grazing fences, in few minutes we ascend on panoramic Bukovski vrh.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in February 2020.