Lozice - Suhi vrh (Nanos) (gentle path)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Koper, we take the exit Razdrto, then we 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 for 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 in 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, then we 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, then we arrive at a crossroad, where sharply right and steeply downwards a road closed for public traffic towards Lozice branches off, and to the left the road towards 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 in 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.

Path description:
From the starting point, we first walk to the crossroad mentioned in the description of the starting point, from there we continue on an 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 onto 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 to ascend. 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, the path, which gradually turns left, already becomes somewhat steeper. A transverse 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, a relatively wide path in numerous zigzags leads us 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 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 significantly less trodden, but orientationally not particularly demanding. Higher the path brings us out of the forest and after the slope break it completely flattens. Here we continue straight on a barely noticeable footpath, on 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), it then leads us further over grassy slopes which are occasionally overgrown with bushes and individual pines. The easy and barely ascending path then briefly joins the road, but leaves it already after a few steps. The path then moves somewhat further to the right from the road and starts moderately ascending over increasingly panoramic slopes of Nanos. Here an unmarked path joins us from the right, 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 further brings us to a less noticeable junction, where to the left an unmarked path to Grmada branches off. We continue slightly right on the marked path, which further ascends parallel to the road for quite some time. The path ahead moves a little further to the right from the road and passes to the panoramic northwestern edge of Nanos. Here the so-called Janezova pot joins almost unnoticeably from the right, we continue straight on the wide footpath, which leads us towards the transmitters on Nanos. Just a little before the transmitters the path turns left, descends into a belt of forest and then past the monument of Janko Premrl Vojko brings us to Vojkova koča on Nanos.
From the hut we continue on the marked path in the direction of Suhi vrh. The path first crosses the meadow behind the hut, then ascends briefly. Some walking with shorter descents and ascents follows to a panoramic grassy slope. The path then returns to the forest and starts descending more steeply. After a few minutes of descent we come to a marked junction, where we continue left in the direction of Suhi vrh (straight downwards Strane). After a few minutes of further walking we step onto a forest road, which soon brings us to the hunting cottage.
We continue further on the road, from which soon a steep path branches off to the right. We continue straight, the road soon brings us to a crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Suhi vrh. The road somewhat further starts descending, then we notice a marked footpath which from the road turns sharply right. We head onto the mentioned footpath, which in a few minutes of a somewhat steeper ascent brings us to Suhi vrh.
Lozice - Vojkova koča 2:45, Vojkova koča - Suhi vrh 1:40.

On the way: Sveti Hieronim (1020m), Vojkova koča na Nanosu mountain hut (1240m)