Strma Reber - Cerk

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Ribnica, and then we continue driving towards Kočevje. After Dolenja vas we continue right in the direction of Grčarice, Gotenica and Kočevska Reka. In Kočevska Reka we continue right in the direction of Borovca pri Kočevski Reki, mountain pass Strma Reber and Osilnice. In Borovec we once again continue right, and then past hamlet Ravne in few kilometers we get to mountain pass Strma Reber, which is situated at an altitude 993 meters. From the mountain pass a short descent follows, and then we get to a larger parking lot, where on the left side we notice also map of Kočevje mountain trail and mountain signposts for Firstov rep and Cerk. From a crossroad, where we leave the main road Ribnica - Kočevje is approximately 30 km of relatively nice asphalt road.
B) From Kočevje we drive towards the border crossing Petrina, and then at the end of the settlement Štalcerji we continue right towards Kočevska Reka. In Kočevska Reka we continue left in the direction of Borovec pri Kočevski Reki, mountain pass Strma Reber and Osilnice. In Borovec we continue right, and then past hamlet Ravne in few kilometers we get to mountain pass Strma Reber, which is situated at an altitude 993 meters. From the mountain pass a short descent follows, and then we get to a larger parking lot, where on the left side we notice also map of Kočevje mountain trail and mountain signposts for Firstov rep and Cerk. From the crossroad, where we leave the main road Kočevje - Petrina is approximately 18 km of asphalt road.
C) From Osilnica or Sela pri Osilnici we continue in the direction settlements Žurge, Padovo pri Osilnici, Zgornji Čačič and mountain pass Strma Reber. Further, we drive on at first slightly winding, and higher zig zag road which on nineteen marked hairpin turns brings us to a crossroad, which is located only few 100 meters before the mountain pass Strma Reber. At the crossroad is large macadam parking lot on both sides of the road, "cottage", in which is sand for road (sand for the purpose of road maintenance workers), and there a map of Kočevje mountain trail. We park on the mentioned parking lot. From the center of Osilnica to the starting point is 8.5 km.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue towards the east, on the road in the direction of Cerk and Firstov rep. The path leads us on the forest road, from which already after few minutes marked path branches off to the right.
We continue on a marked path (possible is also to continue on an unmarked road, because marked path after a time returns on the mentioned road, the path on the road is also a little shorter), which passes into a dense forest. Through the forest at first we start moderately ascending, and in doing so, we carefully follow the blazes, because the path is otherwise relatively easy to follow but poorly beaten. When the path a little higher flattens, on the left side we bypass indistinct peak Luknja (1079 meters), to which we can on easier pathless terrain ascend in few minutes, otherwise we continue on a marked path, which as said peak bypasses on the left side. Next follows few shorter ascents and descents, after that follows a little longer descent, which ends when we reach the macadam road.
When we reach the road, we continue left (right Firstov rep and Loška stena), and after a minute or two of additional walking, we get to a crossroad by NOB monument, where from the left joins the road which leads from our starting point.
We continue right, past memorial and we continue on a macadam road. Higher, at the smaller crossroad we continue left, and after few minutes we get to a marked crossing, where joins also a marked path from the hunting cottage on Ravne.
Signs for Cerk point us to the right on a cart track. Well marked, but occasionally quite overgrown cart track we follow all the way to a smaller plain below the summit of Cerk. Here we continue slightly left and then a little more steep path we follow all the way to the top of Cerk.