Spodnja Idrija - Gradišče (above Spodnja Idrija) (ridge path)

Access to starting point:
From Ljubljana, we drive towards Idrija. In Idrija at the second traffic light crossroad we turn right towards Spodnji Idrija (4 km). We drive through Spodnja Idrija in the direction of Tolmin. Just before the end of Spodnja Idrija on the left side we notice sawmill Čarjeva žaga. We park at the beginning of a large space next to the main road, that we don't hinder work at the sawmill.
From the direction of Tolmin, we drive towards Ljubljana, through settlements by river Soča and Idrijca (Most na Soči, Slap ob Idrijci, Stopnik, Želin, Travnik etc…) all the way to Spodnja Idrija. At the beginning of Spodnja Idrija, on the right side we see sawmill Čarjeva žaga, where we park at the end of the large area by the main road.

Path description:
We go past the sawmill Čarjeva žaga towards the bridge by the main road (Kogejeva grapa), we cross it and we continue slightly upwards, where we notice a footpath which goes into the forest. At the very beginning there is a steep ascent in front of us, which after 10 minutes goes away and we are already on the top of a small ridge, where runs also a trim trail. By the path, we notice some exercises of trim trail. The path leads us upwards and we are already at the crossing, where from the right joins the path from Meline (two turn-offs right). We continue left or straight upwards, and few steps later, where by the path stands a bench, there is the crossroad, where we go far right above the bench upwards on an indistinct ridge footpath.
The footpath is all the time ascending on a wide ridge and after approximately 30 minutes from the beginning of walking, we step on a cart track which runs from the farm Staje towards abandoned Mrkejce. We peacefully cross the cart track and we go on the path which leads straight upwards. After 5 minutes from the left joins the path from Mrkejce and immediately after this we get to the hairpin turn of a wider cart track. And here caution, on the left side of the hairpin turn there is a poorly visible footpath which leads towards the ridge, where we also continue walking. For some time we still walk left above the cart track which we see below us. The footpath on the ridge is poorly visible, so we simply follow the ridge always upwards and look for the footpath, where it is more distinct. After the distinct branched beech tree we again ascend steeper on a shorter ridge plain and soon after this we get to the chapel, which stands on the edge of the meadow Šnitova senožet v Lazu (the chapel belongs to the farm Kladnik). From the cart track to the chapel in Laz there is 30 minutes of walking.
Our further path goes behind the chapel directly upwards almost on the edge of the ridge, where the footpath at first isn't visible (later on some sections the footpath by the edge of the ridge is visible), but for orientation we have an edge of the ridge. In between there is also a short steep part among rocks upwards, it isn't difficult and somewhere after 20 minutes we reach Šnitov rob. A very nice viewpoint towards the Julian Alps.
From here we continue forward on a well-beaten path, which after only a minute of walking, brings us to a crossroad. All the time we have the ridge in mind and here as well we continue upwards on a ridge (to the left we come towards the farm Kladnik and into Ledine, and right on a cart track to the farm Pri Šnitu and to Spodnja Idrija). The path vanishes a little, but the ridge is our ally and so we follow it upwards to a clearing after the power line, where we again follow the ridge path. We join the road from the farm Kladnik, which runs straight to the summit of Gradišče, where there stands a transmitter.

On the way: Poklonska kapela pri senožeti v Lazu (750m)