Preval Poljance - Mengore (steep path)
Starting point: Preval Poljance (253 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.1642°N 13.7291°E
Path name: steep path
Time of walking: 30 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 200 m
Altitude difference (by path): 200 m
Map: Julijske Alpe - zahodni del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From Podbrdo or Idrija we drive to Most na Soči, and then we continue driving towards Nova Gorica. The road quickly ascends above the village Modrejce and it brings us on a saddle Poljance, where we turn right and then after few 10 meters we park on a larger macadam parking lot.
B) First, we drive to Nova Gorica, and then we continue driving towards Bovec. A little before the village Čiginj, we will get to a crossroad, where we leave the main road and we continue right towards settlements Kozaršče, Modrejce and Most na Soči. The road quickly brings us to Kozaršče, and in few hairpin turns we follow it to a saddle Poljance, where we turn left and then after few 10 meters we park on a larger macadam parking lot.
C) From Bovec or Kobarid we drive towards Nova Gorica and at the smaller crossroad above the village Volče we turn left on a local road which past a local factory and meadows quickly brings us to the village Kozaršče, where we join a wider road. Here we continue left and on the asphalt road we drive to the nearby saddle Poljance, where we turn left and then after few 10 meters we park on a larger macadam parking lot.
Path description:
Few meters away from the parking lot we notice an information board and next to it beginning of "shorter" path on Mengore. From the information board we go in the forest and we start ascending on an old military mule track. Higher, we leave the mule track, because rare signs on the path point us to the left on steeper footpath which quickly ascends to numerous caverns. The path which leads on Mengore just before the caverns turns to the right and by them it ascends to a near quite overgrown meadow. On partly overgrown path we ascend to the nearby hovels, and only a little above the hovels we cross a wide cart track. From the crossing of a cart track follows only a short steep ascent and the path brings us to the summit, in the middle of which stands the church of Holy Mary.
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