Gabrje - Polhograjska Grmada

Access to starting point:
A) We leave the Primorska highway at the Brezovica exit, then continue driving in the direction of Dobrova and Polhov Gradec. Further on, we drive through the Gradaščica valley, following the main road towards Polhov Gradec to a smaller intersection, where a road towards the villages Osredek, Topol (Katarina) and Belo branches off to the right (turn-off from the main road is located a little before the beginning of the village Hrastenice). We park at an appropriate place by the mentioned intersection.
B) From the Ljubljana ring road or Gorenjska highway we head to the exit Ljubljana (Podutik), then continue driving towards the mentioned part of Ljubljana and further towards Dobrova. After Preval, where a road towards Toško Čelo branches off to the right, the road starts descending, and we drive along it to the place where we reach the main road Dobrova - Polhov Gradec. We follow the mentioned road to the right in the direction of Polhov Gradec, and follow the main road to a smaller intersection, where a road towards the villages Osredek, Topol (Katarina) and Belo branches off to the right (turn-off from the main road is located a little before the beginning of the village Hrastenice). We park at an appropriate place by the mentioned intersection.
C) We drive to Polhov Gradec, then continue driving towards Ljubljana. A little after the village Hrastenice, we will arrive at an intersection, where the road towards the villages Osredek, Topol (Katarina) and Belo branches off to the left (turn-off from the main road is located a little before the beginning of the village Hrastenice). We park at an appropriate place by the mentioned intersection.

Path description:
From the intersection at the transformer we continue a few steps along the main road towards Polhov Gradec, then go right in the direction of Grmada on a gravel road which continues past houses. The gravel road which leads us past a few houses quickly brings us to a smaller saddle, where we continue straight downwards (sharply right cart track which leads on the eastern slopes of the peak Praprotno (527 m) and further splits several times). The road then leads us past another house, and behind it we continue right on an ascending cart track. We continue the ascent diagonally through the forest, and past a smaller spring we arrive at a badly marked junction, where we continue right. Further, we ascend moderately through the forest, and along the path we notice some rare blazes, next to one is also an elevation label. Higher, we reach a kind of ridge along and on which we then ascend towards the village Belo.
When we reach the village nice views open up, and the path further leads mostly on a gravel road, which at some intersections we follow in the direction of the open-door farm Pr Lenart, which we quickly reach.
From the farm we continue in the direction of Grmada on a grassy cart track, on which we quickly arrive at a gravel road, and on it we gently ascend with nice views on Grmada and the surrounding hills. At the hunting observatory the worse road turns right and ends at the nearby house. We bypass the house on the left side and continue the path through dense forest, where first we walk on the left side of the slope, a little further we cross to the right side. Further, the path leads us through some belts of pine forest, from where temporarily some views open up, then the path returns to the forest and ascends diagonally on a somewhat slippery path. A little further we reach the saddle Krvavi Vil, where there is a junction of some paths.
From the junction we continue slightly left (slightly right Katarina and Goljek, right Kobilja dolina), where after a few minutes we step onto the marked path Katarina - Grmada.
We follow the mentioned path to the left, to which soon the path from the tourist farm Robež also joins.
The path continues on and along the ridge Lipja, which first leads us past the NOB memorial plaque, a little further past a nice vantage point, then mostly continues through the forest with some shorter ascents and descents. Such a path continues all the way to the marked junction approximately 15 minutes below the summit of Grmada.
We continue straight on the marked path in the direction of Grmada (left Setnica, right tourist farm Gonte). Further the path in moderate ascent crosses the slopes slightly to the left, then starts steeply ascending on the summit and in snow slippery-dangerous slope of Grmada. The steepness then eases and the path brings us to the panoramic summit ridge of Grmada, from which to the top we have only a few steps.

On the way: Domačija Pr Lenart (Belo) (650m)

Trip can be extended to: Tošč