Lozice - Vojkova koča na Nanosu

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 a road closed to public traffic towards Lozice branches off left downwards, and to the right branches off 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 at the mentioned crossroad we are not allowed to turn either 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 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 2 km, and then we arrive at a crossroad, where sharply right and steeply downwards branches off a road closed to public traffic towards Lozice, 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 either 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 under 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 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 diagonal ascent towards the left follows, and the path brings us to the "loziško počivalo", where from the left joins the path from Podnanos (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 Vipavska brda. Higher, we arrive at a somewhat more demanding section, where the otherwise wide path diagonally ascends 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 substantially 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, 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 just 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 from the right joins an unmarked path, 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 along the path, to which a little higher from the right joins the flat path from Razdrto. We continue in the direction of Vojkova koča along the path, which just a few steps ahead brings us to a less noticeable junction, where to the left branches off the unmarked path to Grmada. We continue slightly right along 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 onto the panoramic northwestern edge of Nanos. Here from the right almost imperceptibly joins the so-called Janezova pot, and we continue straight along 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 na Nanosu.

On the way: Sveti Hieronim (1020m)

Trip can be extended to: Suhi vrh (Nanos)