Celje - Pečovniška koča on Grmada (via Stari grad and Suhi potok)
Starting point: Celje (241 m)
Name of path: via Stari grad and Suhi potok
Time of walking: 2 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Altitude difference: 379 m
Altitude difference po putu: 560 m
Map: Posavsko hribovje Boč - Bohor 1:50.000
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Access to the starting point:
Celje, Slovenia's third largest city, is accessible from virtually all sides. Park somewhere between the train station and the bridge over the Savinja in the direction of Laško. The problem could be that the parking lots are mostly pay-per-use. . . when arriving by train, these problems of course disappear.
Path description:
Start at the bridge over the Savinja River at the sign with a panoramic view of the Celje Hills. The trail from the beginning to the Old Castle on Castle Hill is also the introductory part of the CPP-Celje Mountain Trail. In the first part you walk along the path between the Savinja and the railway line to the confluence of the Voglajna and the Savinja. Continue over the bridge and under the railway line to the right and continue along the Pelican Trail to the Old Castle.
From the castle, continue straight down the partially asphalted road, macadam and grass cart track to the settlement of Zvodno. In Zvodno, at the crossroads, continue straight ahead or slightly to the right in the direction of Suhi potok (inscription on a concrete ramp), on the left is the path to Hudičev graben. Follow the macadam surface or forest road for a few hundred metres. At the marked crossroads, continue left and slightly up the forest path or the bed of the Suhe potok.
Then turn slightly left again and follow the mountain forest path up by the quarry. The path is sloping and there is nothing to miss. It winds pleasantly along the stream bed higher up into the world of Grmada. Soon you reach a crossroads, continue right towards Pečovniška hut, while on the left there are signs for Tolsti vrh. The path narrows a little further on and crosses the slope of the forest upwards. We reach a grassy part and the trail's destination is already in sight above us. A little further to the left and at the end somewhere to the right up to the trailhead.
The total length of the trail from Celje is about 5 kilometres, 560 positive vertical metres and 180 negative vertical metres.
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