Podgora - Špik (Vranškov grič)

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 when we leave the forest, we continue right (straight - Ermanovec) on an unmarked path, at first cart track which continues by the edge of the forest. When the forest on the right ends we continue with the ascent by the grazing fence, which leads on a grassy ridge and higher the ridge flattens and it turns left. We continue by the edge of the forest to the panoramic secondary peak, from the secondary peak we go a little right into the forest. Through the forest, we are ascending towards the west to northwest, and by the path, we occasionally also notice some older blaze. In few minutes of ascent through the forest we reach a vegetated peak, on which there is a small cairn.
Podgora - Dom na Slajki 1:25, Dom na Slajki - Špik 0:20.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in December 2020.

On the way: Dom na Slajki (789m)