Hayrack (Laška vas - Pečovje) - Grmada above Celje (via chapel at Mary and Bavč)

Access to the starting point:
The "Laška vas - Pečovje" chapel is an ideal starting point for hiking tours in the nearby hills. For many years, the trestle was a feature of the Bojanski brook gorge between Pečovje and Laška vas, which is also the route of the asphalt road. As the goat house owned by a farmer had fallen into disrepair a few years ago, the municipality of Štore rebuilt it for its visibility with the help of European funds in order to preserve the vernacular architecture. Next to the trestle there is a large parking lot where we can park our little steel horse. The starting point can be reached by car from Celje and Štorje, where you can follow the signs for Svetina. Once you have passed the area of the old part of the ironworks in Štore, leave the main road to Svetina and turn right at the turn-off towards Pečovje. Continue along the narrow asphalt road for about 1 km and you will arrive at our hut. You can also reach the starting point on foot, as the path from the Štore railway station to the hut is fully marked.

Path description:
The trail starts at the new goat house. Most of our route to Grmada is marked and marked to the various peaks of the Celje hills. Only a small part of our route will follow an unmarked path, which is clearly visible in the attached picture. At the crossroads by the trestle, follow the signpost to Svetina over Marija and continue along the asphalt road towards Pečovje. After about 200 metres, at the first crossroads, continue straight ahead, and a few steps further on, at the next crossroads, turn sharp left and slightly uphill. The asphalt road soon flattens out again at the playground in Pečovje. As this is the starting point of the Barbara's Trail, you can initially follow its signs along our route. After three terraced houses, turn left onto the forest road, which turns into a forest track at the last farmhouse. Soon, a path branches off to the left, leading through Bojanski graben, while we continue straight up through the dense forest. Soon the path from Celje joins from the right. Continue left along the forest road at weekends and then left again along a slightly narrower forest path partly also logging trail higher up. The path climbs again a little steeper and there are also a few steel cables on the left, more as a fence than as a handhold. A crossroads is soon reached. Straight up are the CPP (Celjska planinska pot) markers on Srebotnik, but today we continue left slightly downhill by the chapel with the image of Mary carved into the wall of Srebotnika. We continue upwards and along a wide forest path, partly logging trail, we soon reach a crossroads. Here continue right on a well-worn forest road slightly uphill. Follow the Gozdnik road for a few hundred metres to another crossroads below the southern access to Srebotnik. Left uphill you can reach Tolsti vrh, right uphill you can reach Srebotnik, and we continue on the forest road slightly to the left down the CPP, which in this part connects Srebotnik with Tolsti vrh. Follow the Gozdnik trail for another 100 metres to the first crossroads of the trail and the Hudičevski brook, where the CPP to Tolstý vrh branches off to the left uphill. Here we continue across the stream, where the forest trail turns into an unmarked path. Follow the path along the rugged trail for about a kilometre through the forest until you reach a major fork in the trail at a saddle on the south side of Bavč, where the marked and marked trail from Hudičův grabno towards Grmada joins from the right. Continue along the wide cart track, bypassing the little-known Bavč. The path leads us a little further on to a new crossroads, where the path through the Suhi potok joins from the right. Continue in the direction of Pečovniška hut along a wide macadam road to a secluded farm. Here, the signs for Grmada direct us to the right on a path that climbs between a dwelling house and outbuildings. The ascent continues along the gently sloping cart track, which crosses the lane of the forest and leads us only a little further to the Pečovniška hut. From the hut we continue along a wide path which climbs, first gently and then more steeply, towards the top of Grmada along the vegetated eastern ridge of Grmada, from which we occasionally get some views of the valley. After a few minutes, the pleasant path leads to the top, where there is a registration book, a stamp, a large cross visible from afar, a wishing bell and a fantastic view over Celje and the surrounding hills.

On the way: Pečovniška koča on Grmada (620m), Bavč (692m), Srebotnik (700m), Kapelica pri Mariji pod Srebotnikom (500m), Hotel Celjska koča (652m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Tolsti vrh nad Celjsko kočo

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