Grgar - Vodice (via Ranjeke)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Nova Gorica, and then we continue driving towards Tolmin and Kobarid. Main road towards Tolmin we follow only to Solkan, where at the traffic light crossroad we continue right in the direction of Sveta Gora and Grgar. An ascending road further leads past the quarry Solkan, after that a little higher turns sharply to the right and it brings us to the inn Skalnica, behind which we first get to a crossroad, where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further also to a crossroad, where the road towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice branches off to the left (straight Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we get to Grgar, where at the crossroad by NOB monument we continue straight to the nearby sports field by the primary school, by which we park on a large parking lot.
B) From Tolmin or Most na Soči we drive on the main road towards Nova Gorica, after that only a little before Nova Gorica, more precisely at the traffic light crossroad in Solkan we turn left in the direction of Sveta Gora and Grgar. An ascending road further leads past the quarry Solkan, after that a little higher turns sharply to the right and it brings us to the inn Skalnica, behind which we first get to a crossroad, where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further also to a crossroad, where the road towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice branches off to the left (straight Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we get to Grgar, where at the crossroad by NOB monument we continue straight to the nearby sports field by the primary school, by which we park on a large parking lot.
C) From Goriška Brda we drive to Solkan, where at the first crossroad after new Solkan bridge we continue straight in the direction of Sveta Gora. An ascending road further leads past the quarry Solkan, after that a little higher turns sharply to the right and it brings us to the inn Skalnica, behind which we first get to a crossroad, where a steep road towards Sveta Gora branches off to the left, and only a little further also to a crossroad, where the road towards Grgar, Čepovan and Banjšice branches off to the left (straight Trnovo and Lokve). After a short descent, we get to Grgar, where at the crossroad by NOB monument we continue straight to the nearby sports field by the primary school, by which we park on a large parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return to NOB monument, and from there we continue on the left road (looking from the direction of access to the starting point, if we came from the direction Nova Gorica), which from the right soon joins "shortcut" (from the parking lot we don't have to go to monument, because to here leads shorter road which starts a little before the parking lot and continues towards the west). A short time we walk on a sidewalk, and then at the spot, where the main road turns right we continue straight on a narrower asphalt road. Good 50 meters we walk on the mentioned road, and then signs for Sveta Gora point us to the left on other road, where we at first bypass "last" house, after that the road continues through a meadow. On the asphalt we walk to signs of gas line number 443, from where we continue on the left road in the direction of Sveta Gora. Only few steps ahead from the macadam road marked path on Sveta Gora over Križce branches off to the left, and we continue straight in the direction of Sveta Gora "Po sredi" (road which we leave continues to the near house - possible is also to continue on the road to lonely house).
The path ahead leads us over smaller meadow, and then it brings us to wooden footbridge through stream Slatnik, where again splits.
We continue slightly right (left over the footbridge Sveta Gora) on the path which continues along the stream Slatna. A little further, we join the cart track (cart track which continues from the above the mentioned lonely house), and then we quickly get to wooden mountain signposts.
From the crossing, we continue right in the direction of the path via Ranjeke (left Sveta Gora), and it continues on the right side (left bank) of the nearby stream. Stream Slatna, by which we walk in its riverbed carved a small gorge, several rapids and some pools. A little higher we cross the stream and then we ascend a little steeper to the nearby cart track. When we step on the cart track, we follow it to the right (badly marked), and we walk there to a wider macadam road. When we step on the road, we start ascending there (straight natural pool Gospodnjek, right Grgar on the road) towards the saddle Preški vrh, which after good 15 minutes of additional walking, we also reach.
On the saddle is a crossing of multiple paths, and we continue right on a worse ascending road in the direction of Vodice, which only few 10 strides ahead we leave because blazes lead left on a marked footpath. The path ahead returns into a low forest and then continues in a moderate ascent. Further, the path leads us past several trenches and few caverns from the time of the first world war, and then it for some time ascends a little steeper. Steepness very quickly decreases and a relatively gently sloping path brings us out of the forest on an overgrown meadow, from which we already see the peak of Vodice, on which there is a mausoleum of general Gonzaga and which we reach after few 10 strides of additional walking.

On the way: Preški vrh (503m)

Trip can be extended to: Sveta Gora