Lozice - Sveti Hieronim

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Koper highway, we take the Razdrto exit, 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 a left downwards 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 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 Nova Gorica - Razdrto expressway, we take the Vipava exit, 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, then we arrive at a crossroad, where sharply right and steeply downwards a road closed to public traffic towards Lozice branches off, 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 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 spot 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 the low forest, through which it starts first gently, then moderately ascending. Higher we reach a somewhat wider path, which we immediately leave as the markings direct us left onto a gradually steeper path. 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. A 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 transversely ascends over a short exposed slope (especially in snow and ice there is direct 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 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 path, 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), it then leads us further over grassy slopes which are occasionally overgrown with shrubbery and individual pines. An easy and hardly 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 us, 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 sv. Hieronim already visible from afar.

Trip can be extended to: Grmada (Nanos) ( 20 min) , Vojkova koča na Nanosu ( 30 min) , Suhi vrh (Nanos)