Lozice - Hunting cottage Vojkovo

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 a 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 (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 a road closed to public traffic towards Lozice branches off, and to the left the road to 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.

Route 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, along which there are also signs for Nanos. The road first steeply ascends, then temporarily flattens and leads us under the viaducts of the nearby highway. Some 10 m further, we arrive at an unmarked crossroad, where we continue sharply right onto the road, which gets completely 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 shrubbery 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 we start 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 to the left follows and the path brings us to the "Loziško počivalo", where the path from Podnanos joins us from the left (starting point Hrašče).
Here we continue right in the direction of the hunting cottage, and a relatively wide path leads us in numerous zigzags over increasingly steep slopes. The relatively steep path occasionally leads us over 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 ascends transversely over 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 straight onto the wide path (left down to Podnanos and Vipava, right to Vojkova koča past Strmec). Further we moderately ascend on the wide path, along which in a good 10 minutes of further walking we arrive at the hunting cottage Vojkovo.

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Furlanovo zavetišče pri Abramu (1 h 15 min)

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