Lozice - Suhi vrh (Nanos) (steep path)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Koper, we take the exit Razdrto, and then continue driving on the old road towards Nova Gorica. After Razdrto, the road starts steeply descending, and we follow it to a crossroad, where a road closed to public traffic towards Lozice branches off left downwards, and to the right branches off the road towards the former building site of the highway (the mentioned crossroad is located near the road sign 7 km, by the crossroad there are also signs for Nanos). Because at the mentioned crossroad we are not allowed to turn neither left nor right, it is better to leave the car already a few 100 meters higher, on one of the many parking lots by the road.
B) From the highway Nova Gorica - Razdrto, we take the exit Vipava, and then continue driving on the old road towards Razdrto. Further, we drive through Podnanos and past the turn-off of the road which leads to Nanos. From the mentioned crossroad, we follow the main road only another 2 km, and then we arrive at a crossroad, where sharply right and steeply downwards branches off a road closed to public traffic towards Lozice, and to the left the road towards the former building site of the highway (the mentioned crossroad is located near the road sign 7 km, by the crossroad there are also signs for Nanos). Because at the mentioned crossroad we are not allowed to turn neither left nor right, it is better to leave the car already a few 100 meters lower, on one of the many parking lots by the road.

Path description:
From the starting point, we first walk to the crossroad mentioned in the description of the starting point, and from there we continue on the ascending road, by which there are also signs for Nanos. The road first steeply ascends, then temporarily flattens and leads us below the viaducts of the nearby highway. Some 10 m ahead, we arrive at an unmarked crossroad, where we continue sharply right onto the road, which gets very close to the highway.
When on the right side we notice the transmitters (transmitters in the fog we won't see), then on the left side of the road we notice signs for Nanos, which direct us left. Further, we ascend through a belt of bushes to the nearby meadow, where the path quickly brings us to the nearby "spring". Above the spring the path turns left into the low forest, through which it starts first gently, then moderately ascending. Higher we reach a somewhat wider path, which we immediately leave, as the blazes direct us left onto a gradually steeper footpath. Some 10 m higher we cross another cart track, and the path, which gradually turns left, already becomes somewhat steeper. A diagonal ascent towards the left follows and the path brings us to the "Loziško počivalo", where from the left the path from Podnanos joins (starting point Hrašče).
Here we continue right in the direction of the hunting cottage, and the relatively wide path, in numerous zigzags, leads across increasingly steep slopes. The relatively steep path occasionally leads us across quite panoramic slopes, from which a nice view opens towards the Vipava Hills. Higher we arrive at a somewhat more demanding section, where the otherwise wide path diagonally ascends across a short exposed slope (especially in snow and ice there is a risk of slipping). Above the exposed traverse we arrive at a marked junction, where we continue sharply right in the direction of "Strmec" (left downwards Podnanos, straight ahead hunting cottage Vojkovo).
The path ahead becomes quite steep and substantially less trodden, but orientationally not particularly demanding. Higher the path brings us out of the forest and after the inflection point it completely flattens. Here we continue straight on a barely noticeable footpath, along which in 2 minutes of further walking we join the well-trodden and marked path hunting cottage Vojkovo - Vojkova koča na Nanosu.
When we reach the mentioned path we follow it to the right (left hunting cottage 10 minutes), which further leads us across grassy slopes that are occasionally overgrown with bushes and individual pines. The easy and barely ascending path then briefly joins the road, but leaves it after just a few steps. The path then moves somewhat further to the right from the road and starts moderately ascending across increasingly panoramic slopes of Nanos. Here from the right an unmarked path joins, which somewhat lower branched off to the right. The path ahead becomes a little steeper and after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the church of sv. Hieronima, already visible from afar.
From the church we continue slightly right along the path, to which a little higher from the right the flat path from Razdrto joins. We continue in the direction of Vojkova koča along the path which just a few steps further brings us to a less noticeable junction, where to the left an unmarked path to Grmada branches off. We continue slightly right along the marked path, which further for quite some time ascends parallel to the road. The path ahead distances itself a little more to the right from the road and passes onto the panoramic northwestern edge of Nanos. Here from the right almost unnoticeably the so-called Janezova pot joins, and we continue straight along the wide footpath, which leads us towards the transmitters on Nanos. Just a little before the transmitters the path turns left, descends into the belt of forest and then past the monument of Janko Premrl Vojko brings us to Vojkova koča na Nanosu.
From the hut we continue along the marked path in the direction of Suhi vrh. The path first crosses the meadow behind the hut, then ascends briefly. Some walking with shorter descents and ascents follows to a panoramic grassy slope. The path then returns to the forest and starts descending more steeply. After a few minutes of descent we arrive at a marked junction, where we continue left in the direction of Suhi vrh (straight downwards Strane). After a few minutes of further walking we step onto the forest road, which soon brings us to the hunting cottage.
We continue the ascent for some time along the forest road, then the signs for Suhi vrh - steep path direct us right downwards (straight along the road flat path). The path ahead first steeply descends to the bottom of the basin, then starts steeply ascending through the forest. After a few minutes of steep ascent the path brings us to the emergency bivouac (old military tunnel) behind which the path slightly flattens. Only a short ascent follows and the path brings us to the panoramic Suhi vrh.

On the way: Sveti Hieronim (1020m), Vojkova koča na Nanosu mountain hut (1240m)