Gradišče - Grmada (Nanos) (via Sveti Miklavž)

Access to starting point:
From Razdrto we drive on the highway towards Nova Gorica or vice versa and head to the Vipava exit. When we leave the highway we arrive at an old road, which we follow in the direction of Vipava. Before we get to Vipava, a road branches off to the right from the road, which leads towards the village Gradišče (turn-off is marked). We continue ascending through the village, following the signs for camp Tura and Gradiška Tura. When we ascend above the village we arrive at the mentioned camp and a larger parking lot, where we park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto a marked footpath in the direction of Gradiška Tura, Abram and St. Miklavž. The path after a shorter ascent turns right, flattens and brings us to a marked junction. From the junction, we continue straight (left Gradiška Tura and Furlanovo zavetišče pri Abramu cottage) and continue the path in the direction of St. Miklavž (on signs Sv. Miklav). Further, we gently ascend towards the south to southeast, and the path leads us past a few turn-offs to the nearby climbing areas. At all junctions we continue straight and further cross the slopes of Gradiška Tura, later also Podraška Tura. A short descent follows, then we ascend to the church of St. Miklavž, beside which there is a registration box with a logbook.
From the church, we continue on a poor road, which starts to descend slightly. After a short descent, a cart track branches off slightly to the right, leading further towards Podnanos, but we continue straight on the road, which leads us past a smaller spring (the spring is 20 meters from the path). Further on, the road moderately ascends and descends a few times, then brings us to a marked junction, where to the left a path branches off towards Abram (path over Konj), to the right downwards a path towards Podnanos branches off, and we continue straight ahead. A little further, another path from Podnanos joins from the right, and we follow the poor road all the way to the place where we join the asphalt road leading to Nanos. We reach the road right on a pronounced hairpin bend, and begin to ascend along it with increasingly beautiful views. To the next bend we continue along the road, then the blazes direct us right onto a footpath, along which we ascend somewhat more steeply. The well-marked path higher returns to the road and leaves it again after a few minutes, somewhat higher it crosses it once more. The path further leads us past a large chapel, which is visible from afar. Somewhat above the chapel we arrive at a marked junction, where we continue right upwards in the direction of Vojkova koča past Strmec (left hunting cottage Vojkovo, right downwards Lozice).
The path ahead becomes quite steep and much less frequented, but not particularly demanding in terms of orientation. Higher up, the path brings us out of the forest and after the slope break it flattens completely. Here we continue straight along a barely noticeable path, along which in 2 minutes of further walking we join the well-frequented and marked path hunting cottage Vojkovo - Vojkova koča on Nanos.
When we reach the mentioned path we follow it to the right (left hunting cottage 10 minutes), which further leads us across grassy slopes 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 begins to ascend moderately across increasingly panoramic slopes of Nanos. Here an unmarked path joins us from the right, which had branched off to the right somewhat lower. The path ahead becomes a little steeper and after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the church of St. Hieronim, which is visible from afar.
From the church, we continue slightly right along the path, to which a little higher a gentle path from Razdrto joins from the right. We continue in the direction of Vojkova koča along the path, which a few steps further brings us to a less noticeable junction, where an unmarked path to Grmada branches off to the left.
We head onto the mentioned unmarked and somewhat less visible path, which ascends more steeply and soon brings us to a forest road, which we merely cross. We continue the ascent along a relatively steep path ascending across an increasingly panoramic grassy slope. Higher up, the path flattens somewhat and turns right, where it gradually transitions to an indistinct ridge, along which in a few minutes of further walking we ascend to the summit of Grmada.

On the way: Sveti Miklavž above Vipava (438m), Sveti Hieronim (1020m)