Čatež - Bajturn (Zaplaški hrib) (on north slope)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana - Novo mesto motorway, take exit Trebnje East and then continue driving towards Velika Loka. After the settlement of Zidani Most you will reach the settlement of Štefan pri Trebnjem, where you will take a sharp left in the direction of Zaplaza. After a few kilometres on a partly winding road, we reach Čateža, where the road to Zaplaz turns off to the left, and we descend a little further on the main road and then park in the large parking lot between the Čatež Cultural Centre and the fire station.
b) From Trebnje or Mokronog drive to Mirna and from there drive to Litija. Towards Litija, drive to a sharp right turn, and from there turn left towards Cirnik and Selska Gora. After Cirnik the road gradually starts to descend. When you reach the river Mirna, first cross the bridge and then turn left at the crossroads. After the crossroads, the road slowly starts to climb and then leads to Čatež, where you park in a large parking lot near the Cultural Centre Čatež.
c) Drive to Šmartno pri Litiji and from there continue to Gabrovka. After Moravče pri Gabrovki, after the transformer, turn slightly right towards the petrol station. Continue along the valley of the river Mirna. After the turnoff for Gornje Ravne, turn right and leave the Mirna River and start climbing towards Čatež. When you arrive in Čatež, park in the large parking lot between the fire station and the Čatež Cultural Centre.

Path description:
From the parking lot, near which is also the destination of the Levstik Trail from Litija to Čatež, first climb up to the parish church of St Michael in Čatež, and from there, after the church, continue to the right and at the Tončkov dom Inn, return to the main road, which you will reach at a marked crossroads. Continue up the main road, which leads past the bus station and the tourist map, and then, after 100 metres, turn right onto the steep road in the direction of Zaplaza. The road quickly bends to the left and leads to the edge of the forest, where there is a marked crossroads.
From the crossroads, continue right towards Zagrič (continue on the Zaplaz road), following cart track, which turns into a forest. The path continues through the forest without any major changes in elevation, then splits into two parts. At a less well-marked crossroads, the ascending path continues slightly to the left, leading to Zaplaz, and we continue on the lower path, which continues without any significant change in elevation. A little further on, we reach the marked crossroads "pri Panju", where a path branches off to the left to a chapel with healing water, and we continue straight on in the direction of Bajturna.
Continue through the forest, following the path along which there are a large number of forest trail signs. A few short climbs later, we join another cart track, which we follow to the right (if we had continued to the left we could have reached Zaplaz). After a few minutes of further walking, the forest path then leads us to a water tower, after which we turn quite a bit to the left and then climb to the top of Bayturn in a few minutes.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2016 (March).

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