Podnanos - Grmada (Nanos) (Pod zatrepom)

Access to starting point:
From the Vipava highway, we take the Vipava exit. After leaving the highway, we continue on the old road towards Podnanos. In Podnanos, we turn left towards the nearby primary school, post office and shop and park in the large parking lot in front of these buildings.

Route description:
Near the information board about Nanos we notice the first markings for Abram, the hunting lodge and Vojkova koča. These direct us onto the road that runs alongside the nearby school playground. After the playground we reach a small intersection where the markings for Nanos direct us to the right, but we continue straight on the road that turns left and ends at the nearby house. We continue across a small bridge and immediately to the right, where we walk for a short time directly by the water. A little further on we join an asphalt road that takes us to a small intersection. Here we continue right and a little further we cross the Močilnik stream. The road then leads us past the Furlan wine cellar, after which the settlement gradually ends. At the end of the settlement we reach an intersection where we continue right in the direction of "running" and emergency access to the highway across Rebrnice. We continue on the asphalt road, which after a few dozen meters takes us to the next intersection. Here we again continue right in the direction of "hiking and running" (left leads to the nearby houses). A little further on the right a path branches off along the running route, but we continue on the asphalt road that climbs above the highway. On the other side of the highway, which we cross at the edge of the tunnel entrance, the asphalt ends, the road turns left and takes us to a small intersection where we continue sharply right. From the gravel road a few steps higher, in the middle of a sharp left bend, a marked path branches off to the right leading towards Abram (path via Konj), the Vojkovo hunting lodge and Vojkova koča on Nanos.
We continue in the mentioned direction (straight on the road leads to St. Miklavž) and at first walk on a somewhat more overgrown cart track. We soon leave it as the markings direct us left onto the slope, over which we ascend on a somewhat overgrown path. This soon levels out and takes us to a cart track on which we continue the ascent. Higher up the path leads us to a wider cart track, which we follow right for a few steps, then the markings direct us left onto another somewhat steeper path. We then ascend for a few minutes on a path somewhat eroded by water, after which we reach a well-marked junction where we continue straight (left Abram via Konj) towards Vojkova koča on Nanos. The path ascends gently to the right for a few steps, then takes us to a cart track that climbs to the nearby gravel road. When we step onto the road, the path from Gradišče pri Vipavi joins from the left, but we continue right and quickly walk to the asphalt road leading to Nanos. We reach it right at a pronounced hairpin bend, along which we begin to ascend with increasingly beautiful views. We continue on the road to the next bend, then the markings direct us right onto a footpath on which we ascend somewhat more steeply. The well-marked path returns to the road higher up and leaves it again after a few minutes, then crosses it once more a little higher. The path then leads us past a large chapel visible from afar. A little above the chapel we reach a marked junction where we continue right uphill towards Vojkova koča past Strmec (left Vojkovo hunting lodge, right down to Lozice).
The path ahead becomes quite steep and much less trodden, but is not particularly demanding orientation-wise. Higher up it leads us out of the forest and after a break completely levels out. Here we continue straight on a barely visible path, which after two minutes of walking joins the well-trodden and marked path Lovska koča Vojkovo–Vojkova koča on Nanos.
When we reach the mentioned path we follow it right (left to the hunting lodge ten minutes), which then leads us across grassy slopes occasionally overgrown with shrubs and individual pines. The easy and barely ascending path then joins the road for a short time but leaves it after a few steps. The path moves a little more to the right of the road and begins to ascend moderately across the increasingly scenic slopes of Nanos. Here an unmarked path joins from the right, which branched off to the right a little lower. The path ahead becomes slightly steeper and after a few minutes of walking takes us to the church of St. Hieronim.
From the church we continue slightly right on the path, which a little higher is joined from the right by a gentle path from Razdrto. We continue towards Vojkova koča on the path that after a few steps takes us to a less noticeable junction where an unmarked path to Grmada branches off to the left.
We take the mentioned, initially less visible path that ascends more steeply and soon takes us to a forest road which we merely cross. We continue the ascent on a relatively steep path that climbs across an increasingly scenic grassy slope. Higher up the path levels out somewhat, turns right and gradually transitions to an indistinct ridge, along which after a few more minutes of walking we reach the summit of Grmada.

Podnanos - sv. Hieronim 3:15, sv. Hieronim - Grmada 0:30.

Along the route: Sveti Hieronim (na Nanosu) (1020m), Razpotje za sv. Hieronimom (1057m)

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