Spodnje Pirniče - Grmada (Kovačeva steza)

Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Ljubljana - Šmartno, and then we continue driving towards Tacen. In Tacen just before the road over a bridge crosses the river Sava we continue slightly right in the direction of Pirniče. Only a little after that, when Ljubljana ends, we get to the inn Kovač in Vikrče and only few meters ahead to a crossroad, where the road towards Medvode and center of the settlement Spodnje Pirniče branches off to the left. Here we continue straight and after few 10 meters of additional driving, we get to a smaller crossroad, where narrower asphalt road towards the house number Spodnje Pirniče 48 branches off to the right. At the mentioned crossroad starts our path, but because there aren't any appropriate parking spots, we have to park somewhere else (most appropriate place is by the church in Spodnje Pirniče or on a payable parking lot at club Lipa).
B) From Šentvid we drive to Tacen, there immediately after the bridge through the river Sava left towards Pirniče. Only a little after that, when Ljubljana ends, we get to the inn Kovač in Vikrče and only few meters ahead to a crossroad, where the road towards Medvode and center of the settlement Spodnje Pirniče branches off to the left. Here we continue straight and after few 10 meters of additional driving, we get to a smaller crossroad, where narrower asphalt road towards the house number Spodnje Pirniče 48 branches off to the right. At the mentioned crossroad starts our path, but because there aren't any appropriate parking spots, we have to park somewhere else (most appropriate place is by the church in Spodnje Pirniče or on a payable parking lot at club Lipa).
C) From Medvode we drive to Zgornje and forward in Spodnje Pirniče, and at the crossroad before the beginning of Vikrče we turn towards club Lipa. After only few 10 meters of additional driving, we get to a smaller crossroad, where narrower asphalt road towards the house number Spodnje Pirniče 48 branches off to the right. At the mentioned crossroad starts our path, but because there aren't any appropriate parking spots, we have to park somewhere else (most appropriate place is by the church in Spodnje Pirniče or on a payable parking lot at club Lipa).

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the mentioned street, after that behind the last house on the right side we turn right on the road which few meters ahead loses an asphalt covering and it brings us to an unmarked crossing at the water storage.
The water storage we bypass on the right side (left learning path) and for a short time, we continue on an overgrown cart track. From the cart track soon a footpath on which we continue branches off to the left, and few steps higher it joins the marked path from Vikrče. Higher, the path flattens and turns a little to the left and then back right, where gradually passes into a smaller erosion ditch. Next follows a short steeper ascent, and then we step on a cart track, where we continue right (left Šmarna gora).
We continue on the path Pot Svobode, and it from a cart track changes into diagonal footpath. For some time we cross occasionally steeper slopes of Grmada, and then we join already mentioned path Westrova pot.
When we reach the mentioned path we continue left, and with a forest covered ridge path, which a little higher from the right joins also the path Mazijeva steza, we follow all the way to the top of Grmada, which we reach without any bigger problems.

Trip can be extended to: Šmarna gora