Lozice - Grmada (Nanos)

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 left downwards the road closed to public traffic towards Lozice branches off, and to the right the road towards the former building site of the highway branches off (mentioned crossroad is located near road sign 7 km, by the crossroad there are also signs for Nanos). Because in the mentioned crossroad we are not allowed to turn left or 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 expressway 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 2 km, and then we arrive at a crossroad, where sharply right and steeply downwards the road closed to public traffic towards Lozice branches off, and to the left the road towards the former building site of the highway (mentioned crossroad is located near road sign 7 km, by the crossroad there are also signs for Nanos). Because in the mentioned crossroad we are not allowed to turn left or 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 on the road, which gets very close to the highway.
When on the right side we notice the transmitters (transmitters in fog we won't see), 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 a 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 traverse 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 over increasingly steep slopes. The relatively steep path occasionally leads us over quite panoramic slopes, from which a nice view opens towards the Vipavska brda. Higher we arrive at a somewhat more demanding section, where the otherwise wide path traverses up a short exposed slope (especially in snow and ice there is a direct 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 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 break 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 over 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 a few steps. The path then moves somewhat more to the right from the road and starts moderately ascending over 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 St. Hieronimus already visible from afar.
From the church we continue slightly right on the path, to which a little higher from the right a gentle path from Razdrto joins. We continue in the direction of Vojkova koča on the path which only a few steps ahead brings us to a less noticeable junction, where to the left an unmarked path to Grmada branches off.
We head onto the mentioned unmarked and somewhat less visible footpath, which ascends somewhat more steeply and soon brings us to a forest road, which we only cross. We continue the ascent on a relatively steep path, which ascends over an increasingly panoramic grassy slope. Higher 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 Hieronim (1020m)