Potok (Mostni graben) - Dom na Čreti (via Dom na Farbanci)

Access to the starting point:
a) First, drive to Mozirje (accessed from Šoštanj or the Ljubljana - Maribor motorway (exit Šentrupert), from where you continue from the main roundabout towards Gornji Grad and the Logar valley. A few kilometres further on, after the Petrol station, turn left in the direction of Nazarje. Continue through Nazarje, following the signs for Dobletina and Šmartno ob Dreti. Continue through Dobletina and Lačja vas, then after the bridge over the Drieta, turn left towards the village of Potok. At the end of the village the road turns into a forest and then continues along the Mostni graben stream. About 200 m further on, you reach a small parking lot, next to which there are mountain direction signs and a wooden bridge over which the described route begins.
b) Drive to the settlement Šmartno ob Dreti (to get here from Gornji Grad, Ljubno ob Savinji or Vransko via the Lipa Pass), then continue driving towards Nazarje. After Pusto Polje, turn right towards the village of Potok. At the end of the village the road turns into a forest and then continues along the Mostni graben stream. Some 200 m further on, you will reach a small parking lot, next to which there are mountain direction signs and a wooden bridge over which the route described above begins.

Path description:
We start the trail across a small bridge, at which we see the signs for Dom na Farbanci. Then climb through the forest, first following the cart track, and higher up on a well-maintained footpath that leads past the Light Well. Above the well, cross another cart track, and then the relatively steep path slopes down a little and becomes an undistinguished valley. From the valley, soon turn slightly to the right, then first join the cart track, and a few steps higher still, a dirt road, which quickly leads to the Dom mountaineers na Farbanca (The House of the Mountaineers on Farbanca).
From Dom na Farbanci, continue left off the left-hand road, where the path takes you past a wooden hut into the forest. Through the forest, first climb along the mountain path, then reach the wide cart track, which continues the relatively steep climb. At a higher level, cart track turns sharp left, and at a higher level it turns slightly to the right, where it also lays down and splits into two parts. Continue along the slight left-hand one, which is also marked. The fairly flat path leads past a small pothole, then quickly reaches a forest road, which is then climbed to the nearby marked crossroads Borovnjak, where the path to Tolsti vrh branches off to the right, and we continue along the left road in the direction of Čreta.
Walk through the forest for a few minutes, and when you come out of the forest, turn left at the crossroads in the direction of Čreta.
There is a short climb up to the church of St Katarina, and then we walk through the yard of a nearby house to the next crossroads, where another path from the settlement Kokarje joins us from the left.
From this crossroads, turn right in the direction Dom na Čreti (first left along the Kokarje road, straight ahead along cart track to the Church of St. Mother of God) and continue along cart track, which descends through the forest. When the forest ends, continue to the right and pass the chapel to reach the mountain lodge.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2016 (January).

On the way: Dom na Farbanci (702m), Sv. Katarina (Dobrovlje) (915m)

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