Prešnica - Grmada at Slavnik

Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Koper we go to the exit Kozina, and then we drive on the old road towards Koper. When on the road we get below the viaduct of highway, we turn left in the direction of the settlement Prešnica. In Prešnica we notice the first blazes, and through the village we follow the blazes. At the smaller crossroad in the village we go right in the direction of marked parking lot (straight marked path on Slavnik), to which we have a little less than 500 meters of driving on a narrower asphalt road.
B) From highway Koper - Ljubljana we go to the exit Kastelec, and then we drive on the old road in the direction of Kozina. The road then leads us past the settlement Petrinje, and approximately 2 km after the settlement from the crossroad below the viaduct of highway we continue right in the direction of the settlement Prešnica. In Prešnica we notice the first blazes, and through the village we follow the blazes. At the smaller crossroad in the village we go right in the direction of marked parking lot (straight marked path on Slavnik), to which we have a little less than 500 meters of driving on a narrower asphalt road.

Path description:
By the parking lot we notice signs for Slavnik, which point us through the underpass under the railway track, and a little after the underpass we continue left in the direction of the mountain path on Slavnik. Next follow few crossings, where we follow the signs for Slavnik, and a little higher from the left joins the path which leads from the center of the village Prešnica.
We go right and we continue the ascent on the path which is then for quite some time ascending diagonally towards the right. Higher, the path leads past interesting vantage point, from which a nice view opens up, which reaches all the way to the sea. Few minutes ahead from the viewpoint the path which was most of the time steadily moderately ascending flattens and crosses the macadam road (left Hrpelje, right Slavnik and Podgorje).
Next follows an easy ascent, and then we cross another road, a little after the crossing from the left joins also a marked path from Hrpelje.
We continue in the direction of Slavnik, on the path which after the sign, which marks natural monument Slavnik, starts ascending a little more. The path quickly flattens and right before we reach the macadam road, an unmarked path branches off to the right, on which in few minutes we ascend to the summit of Grmada, where there stands a fire protection observatory.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (April).