Podpeč - Grmada on Mala gora

Access to the starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana - Novo Mesto motorway, take the Grosuplje exit (from the Ljubljana direction, you can also take the Cikava exit), and then continue driving towards the centre of Grosuplje. From Grosuplje, drive towards Veliko Mlačevo, Mala and Velika Račna and Vidmo. From Veliko Mlačevo, turn right (straight ahead to Lobček and Luce), then continue towards Vidmo. At Vidmo, the road from Rašice joins, and we follow it to the left (south) to the road turnoff to the village of Podpeč. In Podpeč, turn right and go through the village for another 100 m, then turn sharp left after one of the residential houses towards the nearby St Martin's Church, next to which you park in a gravel parking area.
b) From the Ljubljana - Kočevje road at Rašica turn left (from Kočevje turn right) towards Ponikev, Predstruge and Vidmo. When you reach Predstruge, you will reach the Dobrepolje valley, and we will follow it through Videm to the road turnoff to the village of Podpeč. In Podpeč, turn right and drive through the village for another 100 m, then take a sharp left after one of the residential houses towards the nearby St Martin's Church, where you park in a gravel parking area.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we focus on a relatively steep macadam road, which we walk only a few steps, as the markings then lead us left into the forest (along the way we will notice the markings "KV" which indicates Kamen vrh). Climb moderately through the forest on a well-marked path for a while, then reach the forest road, which you follow to the left (straight up the footpath to Kamen vrh).
Continue along the relatively sloping macadam road, which splits into two parts after about 10 minutes of further walking. Take the right-hand road, which a few metres further on crosses the marked path Podgora - Kamen vrh.
Continue along the macadam road, which climbs gently to moderately to the left, and at a higher altitude turns sharp right and leads to a crossroads.
From the crossroads, continue along the left-hand road (the right-hand road leads to Kamen vrh), which continues to climb transversely through the forest. Higher up, the path leads you across a view slope, from where you have a beautiful view towards Dobrepolje and the Dry Landscape. The road then returns to the forest, and we follow it to a small left turn, where we reach another marked path leading to the top of Grmada.
At this point, leave the road and continue the ascent along the marked or parallel better-maintained unmarked path. After a few minutes of ascent, the two paths merge and lead us to the Grmada hut above Ortnek, from which we have a beautiful view.
The top of Grmada is a few 10 steps further.

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Koča pri Sveti Ani na Mali gori (2 h 35 min), Stene svete Ane (2 h 20 min)

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