Gradišče - Grmada (Nanos) (via Sveti Miklavž)

Access to the starting point:
From Razdrto take the expressway to Nova Gorica or vice versa and take the Vipava exit. Once off the motorway, you will reach the old road, which you follow in the direction of Vipava. Before you reach Vipava, a road branches off to the right and leads towards the village of Gradišče (the branch is marked). Continue up through the village, following the signs for Camping Tura and Gradiška Tura. As we climb above the village, we reach the bivouac and a large parking area where we park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, follow the marked footpath in the direction of Gradiška Tura, Abram and St Nicholas. After a short climb, the path turns right, lays down and leads to a marked crossroads. From the crossroads, continue straight ahead (left Gradiška Tura and Furlanovo zavetišče pri Abramu) and continue in the direction of St. Nicholas (on the St. Nicholas signs). Continue climbing steeply south to southeast, and the trail leads past a few walls to nearby climbing areas. At all crossroads continue straight ahead and continue to cross the slopes of Gradiška Tura and later Podraška Tura. There is a short descent, and then we climb up to the Church of St Nicholas, next to which there is a registration box with a registration book.
From the church, continue along a minor road which begins to descend slightly. After a short descent, the road cart track branches off slightly to the right, leading further towards Podnanos, and we continue straight on along the road, which leads us past a small spring (the small spring is 20 metres from the path). The road ascends and descends moderately a few times, and then leads to a marked crossroads where the path to Abram (the path over Konja) branches off to the left, the path to Podnanos branches off to the right, and we continue straight on. A little further on, another path from Podnanos joins us from the right, and we follow the worse road all the way to where it joins the asphalt road leading to Nanos. The road is reached just at a distinct serpentine, and we start climbing up it, taking in the increasingly beautiful views. We continue along the road until the next bend, and then signs direct us to the right onto a footpath, which climbs a little steeper. Higher up, the well-marked path returns to the road, leaving it again after a few minutes and crossing it again at a slightly higher level. The way ahead leads past a large chapel, which is visible from a distance. A little above the chapel, we arrive at a marked crossroads, where we continue right up towards Vojkova hut, past Strmec (on the left the Vojkovo hunting lodge, on the right down Lozice).
The way ahead becomes quite steep and much less beaten, but not particularly difficult in terms of orientation. Higher up, the path leads us out of the forest and completely lays down after the turning point. Here we continue straight along a barely visible path, which in 2 minutes of further walking connects to the well-trodden and marked path Hunting Lodge Vojkovo - Vojkova koča na Nanosu (Vojkova Lodge on Nanosu). When you reach the trail, follow it to the right (left hunting lodge 10 minutes), and it leads you on across grassy slopes that are occasionally covered with scrub and individual pines. The path, which is easy and hardly climbing at all, then joins the road for a short distance, but leaves it after a few steps. The path then leaves the road a little to the right and begins to climb moderately over the increasingly scenic slopes of Nanos. Here, an unmarked path joins from the right, branching off to the right at a slightly lower level. The path ahead becomes a little steeper and, after a few minutes of further walking, leads us to the church of St Hieronymus, visible from afar.
From the church, continue slightly to the right along the path, which is joined just a little higher up on the right by the path from Razdrteg. Continue in the direction of Vojkova huts along the path, which leads us only a few steps further to a less visible crossroads, where the unmarked path to Grmada branches off to the left.
We focus on the above-mentioned unmarked and slightly less visible path, which is slightly more ascending and soon leads us to a forest road, which we just cross. Continue the ascent along a relatively steep path, which climbs over an increasingly scenic grassy slope. Higher up, the path bends slightly to the right, where it gradually becomes an undistinguished ridge, which is then followed by a few minutes of further walking to the top of Grmada.

On the way: Sveti Miklavž above Vipava (438m), Sveti Hieronim (1020m)

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