Petrovo Brdo - Šavnik

Access to starting point:
From Železniki we drive towards Tolmin or vice versa, we follow the road to the settlement Petrovo Brdo, where on a parking lot at the mountain hut Petrovo Brdo we also park. The mountain hut is located right next to a crossroad, where the road on Soriška planina branches off.

Path description:
By the mountain hut, we notice signs for Črna prst, which point us on a very steep path. After a short steep ascent, we step on a wide cart track which we follow to the right, and it quickly brings us to a torrent stream. Marked cart track soon turns a little towards the left and is then relatively steeply ascending through the forest. After approximately half an hour of walking, we come to mountain signposts, where there is a marked crossing.
We continue in the direction of Črna prst (left Kup and Podbrdo) and we continue the ascent on an ascending cart track which higher turns to the right and entirely flattens. After few minutes of additional walking, we leave the cart track and we continue the ascent on a marked footpath. After a short ascent, the path flattens a little and brings us on the old, but very well-preserved mule track. We continue the ascent on the mentioned mule track, which through the forest and some gullies brings us to a crossing near the bivouac Lovčev bivak Pri Koucah. Here we continue straight (right Lajnar and Slatnik) and after few 10 strides of additional walking, we get to the already mentioned bivouac (Lovčev bivak is just a name of the cottage and we can't use it as bivouac).
From Lovčev bivak we continue on a marked path in the direction of Črna prst. The path ahead crosses a lane of a forest and then gradually passes on the more and more panoramic slopes, from which a view is opening up on peaks and slopes, which surround Baška grapa. Higher, the path turns a little towards the left and starts lightly descending. After that, the path bypasses old barracks and only few 10 meters ahead brings us to the hunting cottage on Vrh Bače.
From the hunting cottage, we continue in the direction of Črna prst, after that only few steps below indistinct saddle Vrh Bače, we continue right in the direction of Šavnik and Možic. The path ahead for a short time steeply ascends through the forest and then it brings us on a grassy plain, where the path for some time flattens. Here from the right joins barely noticeable footpath (shortcut), which "cuts" hunting cottage (the latter path we can use on the descent it is approx. 10 min. shorter, and turn off is also marked). The path ahead returns into the forest, where already after a short ascent, it brings us to an old military bunker, which is converted into some kind of holiday cottage, and the path bypasses it on the right side. A moderately steep path then brings us by the edge of the ridge (here we can in few steps ascend on a nice vantage point - a view on Baška grapa and Kobla) by which we are then ascending through more or less dense forest. Higher, the path turns to the left and entirely flattens. Next follows good 5 minutes of walking, and then the path brings us on a larger grassy slope between Šavnik and Slatnik. We continue here on an easy path, which turns to the right and after few steps it brings us to a marked crossing.
We continue slightly left in the direction of Šavnik (straight mountain pasture Planina za Šavnikom and Možic) on the path which passes into a lane of a forest through which it starts ascending steeper. Higher, we step out of the forest on grassy and with raspberry bushes vegetated slopes, through which in a diagonal ascent we ascend on the southeastern ridge of Šavnik. Here the path turns slightly towards the left and then continues on and by the already mentioned ridge. This relatively steep and an increasingly panoramic path, we then follow all the way to a panoramic summit.

On the way: Lovčev bivak Pri Koucah (1192m), Vrh Bače (1273m)