Podgora - Grmada on Mala gora
Starting point: Podgora (438 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.828°N 14.7014°E
Time of walking: 1 h 20 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 449 m
Altitude difference (by path): 455 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Novo Mesto we go to the exit Grosuplje (from Ljubljana direction possible also to the exit Cikava), and 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), and then we continue driving towards Videm. In Videm we join the road from Rašica, and we follow it left (towards the south) and we drive there to the turn-off of the road towards the village Podgora, which is situated by the edge of Dobro Polje. To the mentioned village we come after few 100 meters of additional driving, and our path starts near the church. We park at the beginning of the village on an appropriate place by the road, the way we don't hinder the locals.
B) From the road Ljubljana - Kočevje at settlement Rašica we turn left (from the direction Kočevje right) in the direction of Ponikve, Predstruge and Videm. When we get to Predstruge we reach valley Dobrepoljska dolina, and we are driving there through Videm to the turn-off of the road towards Podgora. To the mentioned village we come after few 100 meters of additional driving, and our path starts near the church. We park at the beginning of the village on an appropriate place by the road, the way we don't hinder the locals.
Path description:
From the spot, where we've parked, we at first walk to the church, and from there we continue on at first a wide cart track which passes into the forest. Few minutes we are ascending on a cart track, and then the arrow on a tree points left on an old and steeper cart track. During the ascent, we carefully follow the blazes, and the path higher returns on a wider cart track. A little further, we cross a macadam road, and only a few meters higher we reach another road which we follow to the left (on this spot we leave the marked path which leads on Kamni vrh).
We continue on the macadam road which is gently to moderately ascending towards the left, and higher for some time turns sharply right and it brings us to a crossroad.
From the crossroad, we continue on the left road (the right road leads towards Kamen vrh), which is still diagonally ascending through the forest. Higher, the path for some time leads on a panoramic slope, from where a beautiful view opens up towards Dobrepolje and Suha krajini. Further, the road returns into the forest, and we walk there to the smaller left turn, where we reach another marked path which leads towards the top of Grmada.
On the mentioned spot, we leave the road and we continue on a marked or parallel better beaten unmarked path. Both paths after few minutes of the ascent join and bring us to the mountain hut on Grmada above Ortnek, from which a beautiful view opens up.
Peak of Grmada is situated few 10 strides further.
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