Topol - Polhograjska Grmada (via Robež)

Access to starting point:
A) From Ljubljana, Kranj or Vodice we drive to Medvode, from there we continue driving towards Sora. At the crossroad at the beginning of Sora, immediately behind the small bridge we turn left in the direction of Katarina and village Trnovec. Further, we drive through the valley of Ločnica towards Katarina (Topol). Higher, the road rises above the mentioned valley and brings us to the beginning of the village Topol, where we park on a large parking lot by the primary school.
B) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, from there we continue driving towards Sora. At the end of Sora we turn right in the direction of Katarina and village Trnovec. Further, we drive through the valley of Ločnica towards Katarina (Topol). Higher, the road rises above the mentioned valley and brings us to the beginning of the village Topol, where we park on a large parking lot by the primary school.
C) We leave Primorska highway at exit Brezovica, then we continue driving in the direction of Dobrova and Polhov Gradec. Further, we drive through the valley of Gradaščica, and we follow the main road towards Polhov Gradec to a smaller crossroad, where a road towards villages Osredek, Topol (Katarina) and Belo branches off to the right (turn-off from the main road is located a little before the beginning of the village Hrastenice). When we arrive in village Topol, first a road towards village Belo branches off sharply to the left, a little further signs for Medvode direct us slightly to the left, onto the road which gradually starts to descend. Before the road starts to descend more steeply towards the valley of Ločnica, we arrive at the primary school, where we park on a large parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot at the primary school we ascend on the asphalt road to the inn Dobnikar, from there we continue on the asphalt road that runs along some sort of ridge. At the sign end of zone 30, we leave the asphalt and continue right on a macadam road which starts gently descending and passes into the forest. Further the increasingly worse road gradually changes into a cart track, which crosses slopes mostly towards the west. Later we cross a larger number of torrents, the cart track turns more to the right, so we cross slopes in the direction north to northwest. A little further we notice a wooden sign for farm Robež, which directs us left onto another cart track, along which we gently ascend to the place where we step out of the forest among pastures of the nearby farm. When we step out of the forest we ascend for a short time longer, then behind the cross we start descending towards farm Robež, which we quickly reach.
Before the farm signs for Grmada and Tošč direct us left onto a cart track which continues past the fruit and meat dryer. Behind the farm the cart track enters the forest and starts moderately ascending. For some time we ascend along the cart track, which mostly runs through the forest, only higher it leads us across a shorter panoramic slope, from which a view towards Grmada and Tošč opens up. The cart track soon returns to the forest, changes into a wide path, which joins the marked path leading from Katarina towards Grmada.
The path continues on and along the ridge of Lipje, which first leads us past the NOB memorial plaque, a little further also past a nice vantage point, then mostly continues through the forest with some shorter ascents and descents. Such a path continues all the way to a marked junction approximately 15 minutes below the summit of Grmada.
We continue straight along the marked path in the direction of Grmada (left Setnica, right tourist farm Gonte). Further the path in moderate ascent crosses slopes slightly to the left, then starts steeply ascending the summit and in snow slippery-dangerous slope of Grmada. The steepness then eases and the path brings us to the panoramic summit ridge of Grmada, from which we have only a few steps to the top.

On the way: Turistična kmetija Robež (609m)

Trip can be extended to: Tošč