Podnanos - Vojkova koča na Nanosu (Pod zatrepom)

Access to starting point:
From the Vipava motorway, we take the Vipava exit. After leaving the motorway, 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 car park in front of these buildings.

Route description:
Near the information board about Nanos we notice the first signs 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 junction where the signs for Nanos point 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 after it 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 junction. 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 a junction where we continue right in the direction of "running" and emergency access to the motorway across Rebrnice. We continue along the asphalt road, which after a few dozen metres brings us to the next junction. Here we again continue right in the direction of "hiking and running" (left leads to the nearby houses). A little further on a path branches off to the right along the running route, but we continue on the asphalt road that climbs above the motorway. On the other side of the motorway, which we cross at the edge of the tunnel entrance, the asphalt ends, the road turns left and takes us to a small junction 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 along the road leads to St. Nicholas) and at first walk along a somewhat more overgrown cart track. We soon leave it, as the markings direct us left onto the slope, over which we ascend along a somewhat overgrown path. This soon levels out and brings us to a cart track along which we continue the ascent. Higher up the path leads us to a wider cart track, which we follow right for only a few steps, then the markings direct us left onto a somewhat steeper path again. We then ascend for a few minutes along 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 brings 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 that leads to Nanos. We reach it right at a pronounced hairpin bend, along which we begin to ascend with increasingly beautiful views. We continue along the road to the next bend, then the markings direct us right onto a footpath along which we ascend somewhat more steeply. The well-marked path higher up returns to the road and leaves it again after a few minutes, and a little higher crosses it once more. 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 upwards 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 along 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 to the 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 again after a few steps. The path moves slightly 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 down. The path ahead becomes slightly steeper and after a few minutes of walking brings us to the church of St. Hieronymus.
From the church we continue slightly right along the path, which a little higher is joined from the right by a gentle path from Razdrto. We continue towards Vojkova koča along the path that a few steps further brings us to a less noticeable junction where an unmarked path to Grmada branches off to the left. We continue slightly right along the marked path that for quite some time ascends parallel to the road. The path moves a little more to the right away from the road and leads onto the scenic north-western edge of Nanos. Here the so-called Janezova pot joins almost imperceptibly from the right, but we continue straight along the wide path that leads us towards the transmitters on Nanos. Just before the transmitters the path turns left, descends into a belt of forest and then leads us past the monument to Janko Premrl - Vojko to Vojkova koča on Nanos.

Podnanos - St. Hieronymus 3:15, St. Hieronymus - Vojkova koča 0:35.

Along the route: Sveti Hieronim (na Nanosu) (1020m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Suhi vrh (Nanos)

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