Planina (Dolnja Planina) - Grmada (Planinska gora) (via Sv. Duh)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Koper, we take the Unec exit, then continue driving in the direction of Planina. In Planina, where we join the old road Logatec - Postojna, we continue left, but we drive on the main road only a few tens of meters, because then immediately after the parish church of St. Marjeta we turn left onto the parking lot by the church.
B) From Logatec or Idrija, we drive to Kalce pri Logatcu, from there we continue driving on the old road towards Postojna. At the beginning of Planina, the road from Unec also joins from the left, but from here we continue on the main road only a few tens of meters, because then immediately after the parish church of St. Marjeta we turn left onto the parking lot by the church.
C) We drive to Postojna, then continue driving on the old road towards Logatec. At the end of the settlement Planina, we will arrive at the parish church of St. Marjeta, where we park on the parking lot next to it.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we first walk to the main road, which we carefully cross, then continue the path on the road that continues in the opposite direction from the church. The road quickly turns into a cart track, which moderately ascends through the area named Zavrtniki. For a few minutes we ascend with nice views on Planinsko polje, then the path takes us into the forest, where we notice the first signs for Planinska gora. A few meters higher we cross a macadam road, and two additional signposts direct us to the cart track ascending through the forest. For a few minutes we ascend on the mentioned cart track, then the signs direct us left onto a footpath that gently ascends to the left. A little further we arrive at a junction of several cart tracks, where we continue straight (left downhill to Planina past the ruins of the church Sv. Duha, right forest track) on the wider cart track, along which we notice a few yellow arrows (yellow arrows are a kind of marking). A few steps further we continue on the left cart track, which then moderately ascends. During the ascent the path leads us past several landmarks (smaller chapels or crosses by the path), then from the left the path from the quarry joins.
Here we continue right and in a few minutes of further walking ascend to the church of sv. Marije on Planinska gora.
At the church we step onto a macadam road along which we continue the ascent. After a good 10 minutes of further walking, we will notice a cart track on the right side that leads us to extensive grassy slopes. Across the mentioned slopes we walk on a somewhat worse cart track that directs us slightly right. After a few tens of steps of pleasant walking, the path brings us to a viewpoint from which a wonderful view opens onto Planinsko polje.
Near the viewpoint, at the edge of the forest we notice an unmarked mountain path that directs us sharply right, along which in 3 minutes of walking we ascend to the forest-covered summit of Grmada.

Along the route: Sveti Duh (531m), Sveta Marija na Planinski gori (782m)

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