Polhov Gradec - Polhograjska Grmada (via Ravnek)
Starting point: Polhov Gradec (365 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.065°N 14.3167°E 
Path name: via Ravnek
Time of walking: 1 h 30 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 533 m
Altitude difference (by path): 550 m
Map: Ljubljana - okolica 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From Dobrova, Horjul, Gorenja vas or Črni Vrh we drive to Polhov Gradec, more precisely to a crossroad next to the main bus station in Polhov Gradec. We park on an appropriate place near the station, best on a parking lot by the bridge over the river Božna.
Path description:
From the starting point short time we continue by the main road in the direction of Ljubljana, after that behind the inn Gostilna pri Pratkarju we notice mountain signposts for Grmada, Belica, Katarina and Tošč, which point us to the left, on the path which continues by the brick fence. After a short ascent, we step on an asphalt road and we follow it to the right, but we walk there only few steps, because then blazes lead left, on at first still quite wide path. The path, from which a nice view opens up on Polhov Gradec and St. Lovrenc, then passes into the forest and is for some time mostly ascending diagonally. Higher, we stride across a riverbed of ditch Frjetov graben, and then in few steps we ascend to a meadow, where the path leads by a wooden fence. The path through a meadow quickly brings us to a macadam road which we follow to the right, and there in a minute or two of additional walking, we get to the mountain hut Planinski dom na Ravneku.
For a short time, we still continue on the road, after that marked path few times crosses it. Higher, we return on the road, and it brings us to a hamlet Ravnek, where behind the last house we get to a smaller crossroad, where we continue slightly right (slightly left St. Uršula).
Only few 10 strides ahead the road again splits, and this time we continue slightly left (slightly right unmarked path on Kucelj).
The path which meanwhile from the road passed into a pleasant footpath higher brings us to the next crossing, where from the right side joins the path from the village Dvor. We continue left on the wide path, which after few minutes of additional walking brings us to the hunting cottage, where the path splits into two parts.
From the hunting cottage, we continue slightly right in the direction of Grmada (slightly left Grmada over Mala Grmada), so that we bypass the hunting cottage on its right side. The path ahead in a gentle ascent crosses slopes towards the right, and then it brings us to panoramic and quite scenic part, where we cross few gullies. After few minutes steepness of slopes decreases and we are for some time gently ascending towards the right. When after few minutes we reach one of the side-ridges of Grmada, we join the marked path from Belica, where we continue left in the direction of Grmada (straight Katarina and Gonte). Next follows a relatively steep ascent, after that from the left joins the path over Mala Grmada, and few steps higher from the right joins also the path from Topol and Gonte.
At both crossings we continue on the ascending path, on which in a minute of additional walking, we get to panoramic peak of Grmada.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2015 (March).
Trip can be extended to: Tošč
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