Gornje Retje - Grmada on Mala gora

Access to starting point:
From Ljubljana, we drive towards Kočevje or vice versa. Only about a kilometer after (from the direction of Kočevje before) Velike Lašče we will get to a crossroad, where we turn left towards the village Gornje Retje (from the direction of Kočevje right). The road then through a narrow overpass above the railway track brings us to a crossroad, where we continue right. The road after a short ascent quickly brings us to Gornje Retje, where a trail blaze points us left upwards on a steep road. We follow the steep asphalt road approximately 100 meters to the spot, where we notice a yellow mountain signpost with the caption Grmada, which points us on a bad macadam road, by which we then park (we can also park below the village near the recycling containers, but the way we don't hinder a possible garbage pickup).

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue in the direction of Grmada on an increasingly bad road which higher changes into a cart track. The cart track higher passes out of the forest on a wide meadows, through which the path continues without large changes in altitude. The path then goes into a short lane of a forest, where it slightly descends, crosses the macadam road and on the other side ascends towards a smaller hamlet. A little before the hamlet, the path turns right and then it is ascending gently on the upper side of the next of meadow. A pleasant path soon crosses another short lane of a forest, after which it passes on unvegetated slopes, from which a view opens up towards Grmada. In a gentle ascent we walk over a grassy slope, and then the path again disappears into the forest, where we in a gentle descent cross the next forest road. After that, the path again comes out of the forest and continues on a wide, partly rocky cart track which at the hunting observatory turns quite to the right. Blazes then point us to the left on a little steeper grassy slope, on which we ascend to the periphery of the forest, where from the left side, the path from Kamen vrh joins.
We continue on a marked path which goes even a little more to the left in the forest and in a moderate steepness we follow it to the top of Grmada.
Because of the numerous crossings and occasionally quite rare blazes, the orientation on the path is difficult.