Dvor - Polhograjska Grmada
Starting point: Dvor (345 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.0659°N 14.3479°E
Time of walking: 1 h 45 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 553 m
Altitude difference (by path): 580 m
Map: Ljubljana - okolica 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Dobrova at Ljubljana, and then we continue driving in the direction of Polhov Gradec. Only a little after the village Belica we will come in the village Dvor, which is the starting point for our tour. Large parking lot at the beginning of the village (looking from the direction Ljubljana) is intended for guests of the nearby snack bar (by arrangement with employees in snack bar, it is possible to leave car also on the mentioned parking lot). Few spots for parking are also at the end of the settlement.
Path description:
From the parking lot (at snack bar) we continue on the main road towards Polhov Gradec, and then we will few 10 meters before an old gothic church of St. Peter, by the road notice a trough with water and next to it mountain signposts for Grmada, which point us to the right on a narrower, but still asphalt road. After a short ascent, the road turns a little towards the left, and right on this spot we look for a footpath which from the road goes sharp to the right (turn-off isn't marked). When we step into the forest, the footpath turns to the left and is further ascending diagonally. After few minutes, we come on a cart track, where we step on a marked path which leads from the previously mentioned church (to here we can also come past the church).
We continue the ascent on a cart track which higher changes into a steep footpath. The path ahead is ascending on a relatively steep ridge, which we higher avoid a little to the left. When we leave the ridge path flattens, and further it leads through a panoramic meadow, by the edge of which we notice a hunting observatory. The path ahead brings us on a gently sloping cart track which only a little further from the left joins the path from Polhov Gradec (path over Ravnek). We continue on a cart track, and it quickly brings us to the hunting cottage, near of which is marked crossing.
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.
Trip can be extended to: Tošč
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