Podgora - Stene svete Ane (via Grmada)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Novo Mesto we take the exit Grosuplje (from the Ljubljana direction also possible the exit Cikava), then we continue driving towards the center of Grosuplje. From Grosuplje we continue driving in the direction of Veliko Mlačevo, Mala and Velika Račna and Videm. From Veliko Mlačevo we continue right (straight Lobček and Luče), then we continue driving towards Videm. In Videm we join the road from Rašica, we follow it left (towards the south) and drive along it to the turn-off of the road towards the village Podgora, which is situated by the edge of the Dobrepolje field. To the mentioned village we come after a few 100 meters of additional driving, our path starts near the church. We park at the beginning of the village in an appropriate place by the road, so that we do not hinder the work of the locals.
B) From the road Ljubljana - Kočevje at the settlement Rašica we turn left (from the Kočevje direction right) in the direction of Ponikve, Predstrug and Videm. When we arrive in Predstrug we reach the Dobrepoljska valley, we drive along it through Videm to the turn-off of the road towards Podgora. To the mentioned village we come after a few 100 meters of additional driving, our path starts near the church. We park at the beginning of the village in an appropriate place by the road, so that we do not hinder the work of the locals.

Path description:
From the place where we have parked we first walk to the church, from there we continue along an initially wide cart track, which passes into the forest. For a few minutes we ascend along the cart track, then an arrow on a tree directs us left onto an old and steeper track. During the ascent we carefully follow the blazes, the path higher returns to a wider cart track. A little further we cross a macadam road, only a few meters higher we reach another road, which we follow to the left (at this spot we leave the marked path which leads to Kamni vrh).
We continue the path along the macadam road, which gently to moderately ascends towards the left, higher it temporarily turns sharply right and brings us to a crossroads.
From the crossroads we continue along the left road (the right road leads towards Kamen vrh), which continues to ascend diagonally through the forest. Higher the path temporarily leads across a panoramic slope, from where a beautiful view opens towards Dobrepolje and Suha krajina. In the continuation the road returns into the forest, we walk along it to a smaller left bend, where we reach another marked path which leads towards the top of Grmada.
At the mentioned spot we leave the road and continue the ascent along the marked or parallel better-trodden unmarked path. Both paths join after a few minutes of ascent and bring us to the Koča na Grmadi hut above Ortnek, from which a beautiful view opens.
The top of Grmada is located a few 10 steps further.
By the hut we notice signs for sv. Ana, which direct us onto a macadam road that begins to descend towards the smaller village Vrh pri Poljanah. Still before we reach the houses in the village, the road becomes asphalt, then behind the houses we reach a smaller crossroads by a larger built chapel.
We continue straight along the asphalt road (along the left road, or lower mountain path, we can reach Podgora or Podpeč), from which soon a marked footpath branches off to the right towards Ortnek, we again continue straight along the descending road, which also leads towards the village Ortnek. With views of the surrounding hills, with good visibility also on Snežnik, we quickly reach a right bend, where we continue straight onto the marked cart track in the direction of sv. Ane. The cart track or somewhat further the footpath gradually passes into the forest and crosses the slopes of Vrbovec. After a few minutes we reach another cart track, along which we continue in the direction of sv. Ane, along it we walk for a short time, as the marked path soon turns slightly right from it (this section is not well marked). There follows a few more minutes of walking through the forest, then we descend along yet another cart track to a macadam road, which we follow to the left (right Velike Poljane and Ortnek).
From the place where we step onto the road we continue the diagonal ascent through the forest for quite some time, then we reach a somewhat larger crossroads, where we continue straight in the direction of Sv. Ane (along the road sharply left we can reach Kompolje or Rapljevo). There follows a few minutes of gentle to moderate ascent, then after an indistinct saddle between the peaks Tisovec (931 m) and Špičnik (926 m) the path begins to descend. There follows a few-minute descent, then the signs for Sv. Ano direct us left onto a somewhat worse road, which begins to ascend more steeply (the wider road which we leave leads towards Ribnica). Along the ascending road we walk a few minutes, then the blazes lead us somewhat more to the right onto a marked footpath, which continues through the forest. When the path after a few minutes flattens completely, we reach a cart track and follow it to the left, where we walk along the edge of a smaller valley, where wild garlic grows in spring time.
Somewhere in the middle of the valley, a relatively well-marked path turns right and passes onto the slopes of the peak Sten Sv. Ane. For a few minutes we ascend relatively steeply to the right, then the signs for Sv. Ano from the cart track direct us sharply left onto an even somewhat steeper footpath. There follows a relatively steep ascent, then after a few minutes the path flattens and brings us in a few further steps to the place where a short path branches off to the left, leading to the nearby viewpoint.
From the viewpoint we return to the mentioned junction, from there we continue in the direction of Sv. Ane. There follows a short traverse, then from the left the path from the settlement Struge joins us, a few steps further the path to the top Sten Sv. Ane branches off to the right (straight Koča pri sv. Ani na Mali gori).
From the junction there follows one more minute of walking and we reach the top, on which there is a geodetic tower.
Podgora - Grmada 1:20, Grmada - Stene sv. Ane 2:20.

On the way: Grmada na Mali gori (887m)

Trip can be extended to: Koča pri Sveti Ani on Mala gora ( 15 min)