Dobrič (Vedet) - Gora Oljka (by road)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the motorway Ljubljana - Maribor take the exit Šentrupert and then continue in the direction of Mozirje and Logarska dolina. In Letuš, just after the bridge over the Savinja River, leave the main road and turn right in the direction of Velenje and Šmartno ob Paki. After the bridge over the river Páka, you will reach the next one, where you will turn slightly right onto a narrower road in the direction of Polzela. Towards Polzela, drive to the railway line, then immediately after it, turn left. The slightly narrower road gradually enters the valley of the Hudego potok, where it begins to climb steeply. When the road leaves the gorge at a higher altitude, it lays down and leads to two successive crossroads where the road to Dobrič branches off to the right (the branch is not marked, but at the second branch, you can see markings on the nearby residential houses).
b) First drive to Velenje and from there continue towards Šoštanj. Through Velenje, take the Partizanska cesta, but only as far as the roundabout near the Hofer store. From the roundabout, take the third exit (if there was no roundabout, you would turn left) and continue along Pokopališka cesta, which leads to Podkraj Cemetery. Just a few metres before the sign marking the beginning of Podgorje, leave the main road and turn left (the exit is not marked, there is only a sign on the electricity pole that says "Daewoo motor") along a slightly narrower road that leads to the scattered settlement of Veliki Vrh. The road continues to lead us past individual houses, and we follow it to the homestead Vedet, where we see markings and a road branch to the left, leading to Dobrič and Gora Oljka.

Path description:
After a few 10 steps, the two roads merge into one, which leads us to a place where we see a sign along the way saying that we are welcome in Dobrich. The road soon turns off to the right onto the marked path to the nearby Brezovec 617 m (only the signs for Martin's and Andraško's path are visible), and we continue along the road towards Gora Oljka (the path past Rogeljšek). The road continues through the forest for a few minutes, and then leads us to the upper edge of the nearby hayfield, where we have a beautiful view of Paški Kozjak and part of Pohorje. At the homestead, the road becomes asphalt, and after it, a marked footpath branches off to the right to Gora Oljka (the right fork is no longer at the end of the asphalt, or at the part where the path is lined with cobblestones, but a few 10 m further on).
Continue along the road, which returns to the forest and continues to climb the slopes of Mount Olive. After a few minutes, we join a wider macadam road leading to the summit, and we follow it to the right. Just a minute further on, we join the marked path from Polzela, which soon leaves the road. We continue along the road, following it to a chapel and a large parking lot. At the parking lot we return to the waymarked path, which continues along the road, after which we reach the Mountain Home at Gora Oljka within a minute's walk and, after a short climb up the stairs, the Church of the Holy Cross, from which we have a beautiful view of Posavsko hribovje, Kamnik Savinja Alps, the surrounding area and beyond.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2014 (August).

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