Starting point: Stomaž (285 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.9002°N 13.8573°E
Time of walking: 3 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 952 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1050 m
Map: Goriška - izletniška karta 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We drive on the highway from Razdrto towards Nova Gorica or vice versa and go to the exit Ajdovščina. Then at the crossroad, we turn left in the direction of Nova Gorica and we drive to the village Cesta and immediately after the village we turn right in the direction of Stomaž. The road which starts ascending we follow to a smaller parking lot near the cemetery in the village Stomaž.
Path description:
From a smaller parking lot we continue on the road past houses ahead. After few minutes of walking at first asphalt, after that macadam road brings us to the spot, where a marked footpath branches off to the right towards Čaven. The marked path at the beginning runs on a cart track which soon changes into a footpath and is moderately ascending through the forest. The path ahead brings us on a larger clearing, in the middle of which we notice a hunting observatory. After that, the path again passes into the forest, where we are for quite some time moderately ascending. And the path at Pihalo (small cave and tied rock) starts ascending steeper on mostly poorly marked path. The steepness of the path decreases, when the path brings us on unvegetated plateau terrain of Mala gora, where there is also a crossing.
Here we continue straight in the direction of Čaven (left mountain hut on Mala gora 10 minutes) on in the summer time quite an overgrown path. After that, the path crosses a lane of a forest and a little higher it joins the path from Lokavec. Here we continue left and we follow the path which in few minutes brings us to the mountain hut Koča na Čavnu.
Behind the mountain hut signs for Kucelj point us slightly to the left on a footpath which starts descending diagonally. The path ahead crosses a short lane of a forest and then turns to the right, where it is still lightly descending. After that, the path gradually passes into the forest and from the left path from the village Kamnje joins (there are turn-offs for Kamnje).
We continue in the direction of Kucelj on the path which gradually passes on the right side of "Čaven" ridge. The path continues through a large clearing, from which a view opens up on surrounding hills, and then it returns into the forest. A little further, we leave a gently sloping cart track and we continue the ascent left and further we are ascending through a dense forest. The steepness soon decreases and the path out of the forest brings us on more panoramic grassy slopes. Follows few minutes of easy walking, and then the path brings us below the peak of Kucelj, where it again steeply ascends. This path, which offers increasingly beautiful views, we then follow all the way to the top of Kucelj, and we reach it after few minutes of additional walking.
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