Dule - Stene svete Ane (via Grmada)

Access to starting point:
A) From Ljubljana, we drive towards Kočevje or vice versa. Only about a kilometer after (from the direction of Kočevje before) Velike Lašče we will get to a crossroad, where we turn left towards the village Gornje Retje (from the direction of Kočevje right). The road then through a narrow overpass over the railway track brings us to a crossroad, where we continue left (right Gornje Retje). Only a little further, we come to the next crossroad, where we continue right upwards on a macadam road. We follow this road approximately 3 km to a crossroad, where we notice signs for Kamen vrh. We park on one of the parking lots by the road near the crossroad.
B) From the highway Ljubljana - Novo Mesto we take the exit Grosuplje (from the Ljubljana direction also possible the exit Cikava), then we continue driving towards the center of Grosuplje. From Grosuplje we continue driving in the direction of Veliko Mlačevo, Mala and Velika Račna and Videm. From Veliko Mlačevo we continue right (straight Lobček and Luče), then we continue driving towards Videm, and we drive along it to the settlement Zdenska vas, where we first turn right in the direction of the settlement Videm, a few tens of meters further then once again right towards the settlement Rašica. The road then leads us through part of the settlement Cesta and continues along the railway track to the settlement Predstruge, where at the crossroad at the end of the settlement we continue straight (left Videm, right Rašica) on initially still asphalt road, which later becomes macadam and starts to ascend through the forest. When higher we arrive at a somewhat larger crossroad, where we notice the sign for Kamen vrh, we park at a suitable spot by the crossroad.

Path description:
From the crossroad, we don't continue on the road in the direction of Kamen vrh, but we return on the road a few meters to a marked mountain path which leads from Ponikve towards Kamen vrh (if we came from Predstruge we continue on the right road). The marked footpath immediately goes into the forest and at first only gently ascends. The path, which is occasionally a little harder to follow, higher joins the cart track, on which we continue the ascent. The cart track, which gradually starts to ascend more steeply, higher changes into a footpath, on which in a few minutes of further walking we ascend to Kamen vrh, and from there in a few dozen steps we descend to the mountain hut.
From the mountain hut, we continue on a worse macadam road which starts slightly descending. We follow the mentioned road only a few tens of meters, then the signpost for Grmada directs us left onto a footpath. After a few steps of further walking, we arrive at a poorly marked junction, where we continue right (slightly left Podgora).
The path, which continues slightly descending, soon brings us to a forest road, which we follow to the nearby crossroad. From the crossroad, we continue on the right road and follow it to the place where the signpost directs us left into dense forest. Further, we ascend on the path which higher brings us to a panoramic grassy slope. The poorly visible and occasionally very poorly marked path then turns a little more to the right, where we come to an extensive meadow. In the middle of the mentioned meadow, the marked path turns left into the forest (access to Grmada possible also on the cart track which leads straight), through which in a few minutes of somewhat steeper walking we ascend to the top of Grmada or to Dom na Grmadi.
At the hut we notice signs for sv. Ana, which direct us onto a macadam road which starts descending towards the smaller village Vrh pri Poljanah. Still before we arrive at the houses in the village, the road becomes asphalt, then behind the houses we arrive at a smaller crossroad by a larger masonry chapel.
We continue straight on the asphalt road (on the left road, or lower mountain path, we can arrive at Podgora or Podpeč), from which soon to the right branches a marked footpath towards Ortnek, but we this time also continue straight on the descending road, which likewise leads towards the village Ortnek. With views of the surrounding hills, and with good visibility also on Snežnik, we quickly arrive at the right bend, where we continue straight onto the marked cart track in the direction of sv. Ane. The cart track or somewhat further the footpath gradually enters the forest and crosses the slopes of Vrbovec. After a few minutes we reach another cart track, on which we continue in the direction of sv. Ane, on it we walk only a short time, as the marked path soon turns slightly right from it (this section is not well marked). There follows still a few minutes of walking through the forest, then on yet another cart track we descend to a macadam road, which we follow left (right Velike Poljane and Ortnek).
From the place where we step onto the road we still for quite some time continue the traversing ascent through the forest, then we arrive at a somewhat larger crossroad, where we continue straight in the direction of Sv. Ane (on the road sharply left we can arrive at Kompolje or Rapljevo). There follows still a few minutes of gentle to moderate ascent, then the path beyond an indistinct saddle between the peaks Tisovec (931 m) and Špičnik (926 m) starts descending. There follows a few-minute descent, then the signs for Sv. Ano direct us left onto a somewhat worse road, which starts ascending more steeply (the wider road, which we leave, leads towards Ribnica). On the ascending road we walk a few minutes, then the marks lead us somewhat more to the right onto a marked footpath, which continues through the forest. When the path after a few minutes completely levels out, we reach a cart track and follow it left, where we walk along the edge of a smaller valley, where in springtime wild garlic grows.
Somewhere in the middle of the valley, the relatively well-marked path turns right and passes onto the slopes of the peak Sten Sv. Ane. For a few minutes we ascend relatively steeply to the right, then the signs for Sv. Ano from the cart track direct us sharply left onto an even somewhat steeper footpath. There follows a relatively steep ascent, then after a few minutes the path levels out and in a few further steps brings us to the place where to the left branches a short path which leads to the nearby viewpoint.
From the viewpoint we return to the mentioned junction, from there we continue in the direction of Sv. Ane. There follows a short traverse, then from the left joins the path from the settlement Struge, a few steps further to the right branches the path to the summit Sten Sv. Ane (straight Koča pri sv. Ani na Mali gori).
From the junction there follows still one minute of walking and we reach the summit, on which there is a geodetic tower.
Dule - Kamen vrh 45 minutes, Kamen vrh - Grmada 1:15, Grmada - Stene svete Ane 2:20

On the way: Kamen vrh (783m), Grmada na Mali gori (887m)

Trip can be extended to: Koča pri Sveti Ani on Mala gora ( 15 min)