Starting point: Vitovlje (400 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.9411°N 13.7613°E
Time of walking: 2 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: demanding
Altitude difference: 271 m
Altitude difference (by path): 415 m
Map: Goriška 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Vipava - Nova Gorica we go to the exit Selo and follow the road ahead in the direction of village Črniče and Šempas. When we come to the village Vitovlje we need to pay attention, because we will in the middle of the village leave the main road and continue to drive in the direction of farm Maloščevo (turn-off is marked). Further, we drive through the village on a narrow and steep road which higher brings us to the signpost with the caption »Vitovska krožna pot«. We continue left past last houses on the more and more steep road which only a little higher changes into a macadam road by which we then park (most appropriate parking spot is between fourth and fifth Station of the Cross).
Path description:
From the starting point, which is called Križišče, we continue on a worse macadam road which already after few minutes of walking, it brings us to a well-marked crossing, where we continue left in the direction of »Trpinovšče, spominska plošča in Vodice« (right Vitovski hrib).
We continue the ascent on at first a quite gentle cart track which higher passes into a dense forest. Cart track then steeply ascends and after few minutes of additional walking brings us to Vodice, where there is NOB memorial plaque.
Further, the cart track turns into a footpath which continues in a diagonal ascent towards the northwest. Eventually, the path ascends even steeper and then it brings us to a crossing, where we join the path from Kopitnik.
We continue left in the direction of »Skozno« on the path which gradually starts descending. This path, which has few more marked crossings, we then follow all the way to the cave and natural bridge Skozno.
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