Podgora - Koča na Ermanovcu (via Slajka)

Access to starting point:
A) From Železniki, Kranj or Medvode we drive to Škofja Loka, from there we continue driving towards Gorenja vas and Žiri. After the settlement Hotavlje we get to the settlement Podgora, where before the bus stop the road which leads towards the part of the settlement branches off to the right. At the mentioned bus stop, where there aren't any settled parking lots, there is the beginning of the described path.
B) From Horjul or Polhov Gradec we drive to Lučine, from there we descend into Gorenja vas. In Gorenja vas we continue left towards Žiri. After the settlement Hotavlje we get to the settlement Podgora, where before the bus stop the road which leads towards the part of the settlement branches off to the right. At the mentioned bus stop, where there aren't any settled parking lots, there is the beginning of the described path.
C) From Vrhnika, Logatec or Spodnja Idrija we drive to Žiri, and from there we continue driving towards Gorenja vas and Škofja Loka, and we drive on the main road only to the settlement Podgora, where at the crossroad behind the bus stop there is the beginning of the described path. At the starting point, there aren't any parking spots.
D) First, we drive to Cerkno, and from there we continue driving through saddle Kladje (Podlanišče) towards Sovodenj. From Sovodenj we continue driving by the stream Hobovščica, and then in a little larger crossroad we continue left in the direction of Gorenja vas (right Žiri). On the main road towards Škofja Loka we drive to the settlement Podgora, where at the crossroad behind the bus stop there is the beginning of the described path. At the starting point, there aren't any parking spots.

Path description:
From the crossroad at the bus stop we go on a side road which from the main branches off towards the southwest, and from there before the chapel we go right and we ascend past few more houses. At the smaller crossroad a little higher we go right, and then we go past the last houses, where the asphalt ends. The path ahead leads us on a macadam road which crosses slopes towards the right, and at two crossroads, we go slightly right and then we cross the stream. After the stream the road changes into a wider cart track which starts ascending steeper. Higher, the cart track which gradually narrows makes few hairpin turns, and then joins the path from Hotavlje, which leads on the ridge of Bela.
We continue left on a wider footpath which soon widens into a cart track, and it turns a little left and at the hunting observatory comes out of the forest. Here by the lower edge on a cart track we cross a meadow, and when we reach the macadam road we follow it to the right. The road soon starts descending and in few minutes brings us to a crossroad, where we reach an asphalt road. On the asphalt road, we ascend to the nearby crossroad from which we continue right in the direction of Slajka.
Next follows an ascent on the asphalt road, and when we leave the forest, from the right joins the marked path from Hotavlje.
Asphalt road then leads us past the bench, where the path branches off to the right towards Vrh Slajke, and the road which semicircular turns to the left we follow to the nearby farm, from which to the mountain hut Dom na Slajki separates us only a minute of walking.
From the hut, we return to the near farm, where we bypass the main buildings on the upper side and we continue on the macadam road which on the nearby meadow changes into a cart track. Next follows a walk through a lane of a forest and then we get to grassy slopes of Špik or Vranškov griča (on maps we can find both names), which we with nice views cross. When we reach a bad macadam road we descend there (right private land), and when the road flattens we join a wider macadam road which we reach above the farm Hom.
We continue in the direction of Ermanovec and then we for quite some time walk on the macadam road which later becomes asphalted. Next follows some descent with nice views, after that from a smaller crossroad we continue slightly right (slightly left we can descend to the church of St. Pavel in Stara Oselica), and from the next crossroad we go slightly left (slightly right farm Rotovž).
Next follows an easy ascent and the path brings us to the spot, where the marked path splits.
We continue on the slightly right path which continues on the road (left peak of Ermanovec, and it is also possible to come to the mountain hut Dom na Ermanovcu, but the path is a little longer) and further we are ascending diagonally. Higher, we continue slightly left, and at the hamlet of few houses the road turns sharply right, and then with nice views brings us to a marked crossing by the chapel and bell.
We continue straight in the direction of the mountain hut Dom na Ermanovcu (sharply left peak of Ermanovec, left road which descends to Sovodenj) and we continue walking on a gently sloping asphalt road which a little ahead joins also a marked path from Sovodenj.
From the mentioned crossing follows only few 10 strides of easy walking and we get to the mountain hut Dom na Ermanovcu.
Podgora - Dom na Slajki 1:25, Dom na Slajki - Dom na Ermanovcu 1:30.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in January and December 2020.

On the way: Dom na Slajki (789m)

Trip can be extended to: Škofje , Štor ( 5 min) , Ermanovec