Lozice - Suhi vrh (Nanos) (gentle path)

Access to starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana–Koper motorway, take the Razdrto exit and continue on the old road towards Nova Gorica. After Razdrto the road begins to descend more steeply; follow it to the junction where a road closed to public traffic branches off left and downhill towards Lozice, and right towards the former motorway construction site. The mentioned junction is near the 7 km road marker and there are also signposts for Nanos. Since we must not turn left or right at the junction, it is better to park the vehicle a few hundred metres higher, at one of the parking spaces along the road.
b) From the Nova Gorica–Razdrto expressway, take the Vipava exit and continue on the old road towards Razdrto. Drive through Podnanos and past the junction of the road leading to Nanos. From this junction follow the main road for only two more kilometres, then reach the place where a road closed to public traffic branches off sharply right and steeply downhill towards Lozice, and left towards the former motorway construction site. This junction is near the 7 km road marker and there are also signposts for Nanos. Since we must not turn left or right at the junction, it is better to park the vehicle a few hundred metres lower, at one of the parking spaces along the road.

Route description:
From the starting point, we first walk to the junction mentioned in the access description, 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 expressway. A few tens of metres ahead, we arrive at an unmarked junction, where we continue sharply right onto the road, which gets very close to the expressway.
When on the right side we notice the transmitters (which may not be visible in fog), 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 meadow, where the path quickly brings us to the 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. After a few tens of metres we cross another cart track, the path, which gradually turns left, 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 lodge. A relatively wide path in numerous zigzags leads us over increasingly steep slopes. This part of the path runs through quite panoramic areas, 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 great danger 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 lodge 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 after two minutes of walking we join the well-trodden and marked path hunting lodge Vojkovo - Vojkova koča na Nanosu.
When we reach the mentioned path we follow it to the right (left hunting lodge 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. Hieronim.
From the church we continue slightly right towards Vojkova koča on the path, to which a little higher from the right a gentle path from Razdrto joins. Just a few steps further we arrive at 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 further 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 and Strane, where we cross a meadow with a few trees into the forest, and there we ascend for a short time. Some easy walking with a few shorter descents and ascents follows, which brings us to a panoramic grassy slope. After the panoramic section we return to the forest and start 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).
A few minutes further we reach a forest road and follow it right downhill in the direction of the markings (even if we continue on the road to the left, we can reach Suhi vrh, as the paths rejoin later). At the place where we join the path from Strane, we turn left onto the footpath, which then ascends through the forest and returns to the road. We follow the road right again and continue on it to the nearby hunting lodge.
We continue on the road, from which soon a steep path branches off to the right. We continue straight to the junction, where we turn right in the direction of Suhi vrh. The road a little further starts descending, then we notice a marked footpath which from the road turns sharply right. We head onto the mentioned footpath and after a few minutes of a somewhat steeper ascent we reach Suhi vrh.

Lozice - Brižniki 0:40, Brižniki - Pod lovsko kočo 0:20, Pod lovsko kočo - razpotje vzhodno od lovske koče Vojkovo 0:20, razpotje vzhodno od lovske koče Vojkovo - sv. Hieronim 1:05, sv. Hieronim - Vojkova koča 0:35, Vojkova koča - Bukova dolina 0:35, Bukova dolina - razpotje Boljunov vrh 0:15, razpotje Boljunov vrh - razcep pod Suhim vrhom 0:25, razcep pod Suhim vrhom - Suhi vrh 0:30.

Along the route: Sveti Hieronim (554m), Vojkova koča na Nanosu (678m), Sveti Hieronim (na Nanosu) (1020m), Razpotje za sv. Hieronimom (1056m), Razgledišče (1191m), Vojkova koča na Nanosu (1240m), Bukova dolina (1155m), Oglarsko naselje (1162m), Razpotje Boljunov vrh (1128m), Razcep pod Suhim vrhom (1230m)

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