Hayrack (Laška vas - Pečovje) - Pečovniška koča on Grmada (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 starting point of the trail is at the new trestle. Most of our route to Pečovniška koča on Grmada is marked and marked to various peaks in the Celje hills. Only a small part of our route will be on an unmarked trail, a map and detailed description will be provided to help you.
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 second crossroads, continue sharp left and slightly uphill. The asphalt road soon flattens out again at the playground in Pečovje. Here is the starting point of the Barbara's Way, so for the first half of our trip we follow its signposts. After three terraced houses, turn left onto the forest road, which turns into a forest path 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. Then the path from Celje joins from the right, where we continue left along a 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 a few ropes to help, more as a fence than as a handhold. Soon we reach a crossroads. Straight up, the CPP (Celjska planinska pot) signs direct us to Srebotnik, and we continue left, first slightly downhill past the chapel with the image of Mary carved into the wall of Srebotnik, and then slightly uphill along a wide forest path, partly logging trail. Soon reach a new crossroads, where continue right on the paved forest road slightly uphill and stop following the signposts for Barbara's path. Follow the Gozdnik road for a few hundred metres to another crossroads at the saddle below the southern access to Srebotnik.
To the left you can climb Tolsti vrh, to the right you can climb Srebotnik, but 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 road for a few hundred metres to the first crossroads of the trail, or Hudičevski brook, where the CPP trail up to Tolstý vrh branches off to the left. Continue right across the stream where the forest road becomes an unmarked forest path. Continue on the undulating path for about a kilometre through the forest until you reach a major fork in the path at a saddle on the south side of Bavč, where the marked path from Hudičův grabno towards Grmada joins from the right. Here the path widens into cart track, which continues past Bavč. A little further on, there is a new crossroads where the path through the Suhi potok joins us from the right. Continue straight ahead towards Pečovniška hut along the wide macadam road, past the Tolsti vrh turnoff, all the way to the Čater farm. Here, the signs for Grmada direct us to the right onto a path that climbs between a dwelling house and an outbuilding. Continue along the gently sloping cart track, which crosses the lane of the forest and leads us only a little further to the Pečovniška hut.

On the way: Veliki Bojanski vrh (627m), Bavč (692m), Srebotnik (700m), Chapel at Mary's below Srebotnik (500m), Grmada above Celje (718m), Tolsti vrh above Celjska koča (834m), Hotel Celjska koča (652m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Almin dom na Svetini

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