Gradišče - Furlanovo zavetišče pri Abramu (easier variant)
Starting point: Gradišče (250 m)
Route name: easier variant
Walking time: 2 h 30 min
Difficulty: difficult marked way
Elevation gain: 650 m
Elevation difference along the route: 770 m
Map: Nanos 1:50.000
Recommended equipment (summer): helmet
Recommended equipment (winter): helmet, ice axe, crampons
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Access to starting point:
From Razdrto we drive on the highway towards Nova Gorica or vice versa and we go to the exit Vipava. We follow the road ahead, towards Vipava and Gradišče. In the village Gradišče we notice the first mountain signposts, which we follow to a larger parking lot above the village Gradišče.
Route description:
From the parking lot, we head onto the path towards Gradiška Tura and Abram. Initially a wide and easy path quickly brings us to the first junction, where we continue straight (right St. Miklavž). After a few more steps, the path brings us to a scree field, over which we ascend transversely to the bush-covered slopes. The path ahead ascends ever more steeply and soon brings us to the next junction, where we continue on the right, much easier but still partly demanding path. The path then immediately crosses a short but well-secured exposed ledge, behind which we climb to the panoramic Oltar. From Oltar we continue on the steep path, which in places is secured with a steel cable or pitons. The steepness then gradually eases and the path brings us to the spot where a climbing path joins from the left. We continue ahead on the path, which occasionally ascends quite steeply over some shorter rocky steps. A little below the summit, on a rock we notice an interesting verse, behind which after a few steps we reach the summit.
From Gradiška Tura we continue on the marked path in the direction of Jež. The path then enters the forest, where except for a few initial steps it descends. After a few minutes of gentle descent we reach a junction, where we continue straight towards Abram (left Vipava). The path ahead leads us across a pleasant meadow surrounded by sparse forest. Behind the meadow we step onto a road, where we continue right, again towards Abram. On the road we walk only a short time to the first crossroads, where we turn sharply left to the house we notice on the left side. Here we leave the poorer road and continue right uphill on the marked path, which after a few steps brings us to a cart track that we follow to the right. The further path, with some shorter ascents and descents, brings us to the next forest road, which we merely cross. A moderate ascent follows, first across a meadow, then through the forest to Furlanovo zavetišče pri Abramu.
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Discussion about the trip Gradišče - Furlanovo zavetišče pri Abramu (easier variant)
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| bojanv21. 08. 2008 |
Is the time of 2.5 hours meant one way?
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| Tadej21. 08. 2008 |
The time 2:30 is meant one way, namely in the ascent direction. For descent, usually one third less time is used than for ascent. Stops are not included in the time.
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| m.mojstrovc3. 08. 2009 |
even if the path were 10 hours long, know that the beeeeeest gnocchi around are waiting for you at Abram!!!!!!!
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| BT884. 08. 2009 |
REMOVE THE FIRST PICTURE BECAUSE THAT MEADOW IS NO MORE AS IT'S BEEN REPLACED BY CONCRETE SADLY .....
THE GNOCCHI ARE REALLY THE BEST IN THE WORLD
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| balirka26. 04. 2010 |
Not only gnocchi but everything else is excellent and in my opinion very cheap 
I'm interested if anyone has already gone to Abram from Pirnatova koča on Javornik
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| zztop26. 04. 2010 |
YESTERDAY WITH WIFE ON CLIMBING PATH TO VIPAVA SUMMIT THEN TO ABRAM AND OVER PLAZ TO GRADIŠČE. PATH WELL MARKED AND INTERESTING.
RECOMMEND. L.P.
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| zztop26. 04. 2010 |
P.S.
THE BEAR AT ABRAM BELONGS IN NATURE AND NOT IN A CAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Kriška27. 04. 2010 |
zztop, I completely agree and I'm very surprised how they can allow such animal torture for quite a long series of years. And I'm even more surprised that no one cares about it ... I haven't been going to Abram for a long time, for one single reason - I can't bear the sight of that misery and the callous people who cause it.
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| viharnik27. 04. 2010 |
This bear doesn't have it so bad as it seems at first glance. He's been in there since he was small and has no ambitions to escape. He moves around a bit, the cage isn't that small either. Inside he has a rocky double-walled shelter to retreat from bora wind and snow. He has plenty of food, and company from visitors so he's never bored. Of course in winter and spring he has quite a lot of peace because there are no tourists up there then. He's quite tame, calm, doesn't roar, so I think he feels pretty good there.
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| Lj27. 04. 2010 |
Kriška, I have to agree with you. I'm no longer tempted to go to Abram to see the apathetic sad bear. For me it's animal torture no matter how I try to explain it otherwise
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| katjuša227. 04. 2010 |
I join Kriška.
A few years ago when I was there for the first time and they had a goat shed next to the cage. The bear literally tore them apart with his eyes. The goats were on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Of course at Abram everything is connected to commerce, as it earns the most from overly loud Italians who are loud not only in the building but also around the garden. The bear is just an attraction for them and their children.
But since I go to the mountains for beauty and peace I usually head to Nanos from the Vipava side where there are beautiful flowering meadows, a magnificent view towards the Valley, it always blows but it's peaceful.
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| igorf28. 04. 2010 |
They "adopted" the bear when he was still small, because he was orphaned - if they hadn't, he wouldn't have survived.
If they sent him today "from the so-called torture chamber to freedom-nature", he wouldn't survive either.
Let everyone make their own judgments.
But I don't think it's nice to publicly condemn something without knowing the background. Since I know the Jež family well, I also don't think it's nice to criticize their good will and effort in this way.
If some volunteer steps forward to take the bear to nature and ensure his survival, then ... (I couldn't do it).
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| Kriška28. 04. 2010 |
Igorf, I believe they "adopted" him as a cub and that now he wouldn't know how to survive in nature. Nevertheless, I haven't changed my opinion and still think that living in a cage is torture for a bear. Actually, it seems to me that it's even an illegal intervention to take a wild animal from nature and make a living exhibit out of it. Cases of found wild animal cubs can be resolved completely legally by leaving it to the competent services (if you don't know, there is also a temporary shelter for wild animals in Slovenia).
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| serajko28. 04. 2010 |
kriška
No offense. kriška, I'm wondering if they have rooms with ***** in this shelter
lp
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| majdicst28. 04. 2010 |
Isn't this forum meant for path comments? I suggest to the administrator to move bear discussions to the general forum so we can read something about the path here not about whether the bear should be in a cage or not. 
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| igorf28. 04. 2010 |
Majdicst, I think you're right.
Suggestion for continuing the path to make a nice loop back to the starting point:
From Abram continue straight ahead towards dvorišča-past the beehive through the meadow that gently descends, at the edge of the meadow cross the pasture fence and along the path, in the same direction slightly to the left reach the road, cross it to the left and after a few steps to the right along the path a bit further reach the house, past it continue slightly to the left across meadows to the next road, in the same direction cross it continue along the cart track/path to Konja (small chapel) (Note: when in the forest we reach the highest point and descend gently towards Konja after about 10 meters the path forks: not straight along the wider track but along the path that forks left), descend to the valley to the next road which takes us right to the church of Sv. Miklavž and further to the starting point (all together about 5 hours of moderate walking). Description (albeit in the opposite direction) is here: http://www.hribi.net/izlet/gradisce_furlanovo_zavetisce_pri_abramu_cez_konja/26/840/1532
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| BT8829. 04. 2010 |
The first bear Mitko passed away; he was found in the village Vrhpolje near Vipava still very small. Given the situation and the decision of the hunting society Mitko went to Abram. This is the second bear and I think it was a stolen bear cub from the den come on guys please.
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| aina26. 08. 2010 |
What exactly is written on the rock:
let it be NAJ or is it part of MAJ drawn?
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| BT8827. 08. 2010 |
On which rock?
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| mojca96426. 04. 2011 |
I'm interested in the shortest car route to Abram, thank you
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| Biser gora26. 04. 2011 |
From the nearby forest ranger's hut, barely 100 meters
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| mojca96426. 04. 2011 |
Yes, but how do I get to that hut? I know up to Razdrto, not further, because I'm from Gorenjska and I don't know these areas very well.
I'll be very happy for any information,
best regards
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| Kokta15. 01. 2012 |
Great njoki
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| arturo31. 10. 2017 |
If anyone thinks of going on a hike to Abram today on the holiday to eat and drink something. DON'T. It says they work on holidays, but not Slovenian ones. The holiday has to be ITALIAN!
Then they work.
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| zlatica31. 10. 2017 |
Those at Abram are quite arrogant. They really upset me last year when they didn't let me and my colleague sit at a long empty table just for a coffee, because they were waiting for "Italian" guests. So of course they won't see me anymore! They don't need me anyway! And I don't need them  
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| BT8831. 10. 2017 |
Yes, tradition has gone to the dogs. Currently Abram is a golden goose for the Jež family and there hikers have almost nothing to look for.
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| arturo6. 11. 2017 |
Really sad. Europe fixed everything for him, now only the easy ones are important. Hikers go further or even better, don't come here at all
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| mirank6. 11. 2017 |
Well, I don't know if it's really as bad as some write. I stopped there not long ago when crossing Nanos. It was midweek and consequently there was no one except me and three guests from central Slovenia. Yes, lately it's more like a tavern, but all those accessible by car are like that....
Otherwise, the attitude and service are quite fine, prices a bit less Certainly Europe and the state didn't give him everything, they had to grab it themselves and initially make quite a few sacrifices.
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| BT886. 11. 2017 |
Come on Sunday at 12:15 well if it snows heavily then you can eat comfortably even then.
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| mirank7. 11. 2017 |
On Sunday it's usually a Rio Mare party, or if that doesn't work out, family lunch at home. Otherwise, all agritourisms (which this location also is) with reasonably decent offerings are booked up-reservations.
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| BT887. 11. 2017 |
We're talking about empty tables you're not allowed to sit at even though they've been unoccupied for a long time during our visit.
I don't know what Rio Mare they have here since they don't offer it at Abram's
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| mirank7. 11. 2017 |
If you didn't understand, on Sundays usually in the mountains. At that time I don't stop at various inns and don't comment on their policies. And yes, I rarely enter mountain huts for anything other than beer or coffee, some not even for that, yet they still operate
If I'm already going to that area, I still prefer to stop there rather than at Vojkova koča. I described only my very short stop there mid-week on a morning tour.
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| zlatica7. 11. 2017 |
And don't forget that we're not talking about a regular tourist farm, because the shelter at Abram is listed among the mountain stations of the Alpine Association of Slovenia, as it's one of the transversal points and should thus have consideration for hikers, especially an attitude towards them when they arrive tired at the destination, not refusing them even a coffee break despite empty (but of course reserved) seats. If it's accidentally empty, as mirank writes, that's then a different story, which fits nicely with the Slovenian saying that in need even the devil eats flies. T PZS should also consider whether it's okay to give its transversal points to those catering facilities that look discriminatorily at hikers.
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| BT887. 11. 2017 |
Miran all good. I didn't mean anything bad. But I know the situation more personally as I'm a local. And I've eaten at Abram 100 times. Personally I have nothing against them, plus the generation has changed and with that many things have also changed a bit which have arrived.
I haven't eaten or slept in our huts above 2000m, so judgment on food in our mountain huts is out.
But last time I treated myself to breakfast in a hut above 3500m: a slice of bread and a bit of jam 20eur.
Enjoy the first snow.
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| balon1. 02. 2024 10:19:06 |
Hello,
I'm wondering if a dog can also enter the hut, home, shelter...
Thank you for the answer.
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| mirank1. 02. 2024 16:06:11 |
You won't miss anything if you call the Abram tourist farm...
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