Hayrack (Laška vas - Pečovje) - Srebotnik (northern approach)

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 turnoff to Pečovje or Laska vas. Continue along the narrow asphalt road for about 1 km and you will arrive at our trestle. 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 trail starts at the new goat house. Most of our route to Srebotnik is marked and marked to various peaks in the Celje hills. Only a small part of our route will be on an unmarked but easily traceable road-track. The first part of the trail leads towards the Chapel of the Virgin Mary below Srebotnik.
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 first crossroads, continue straight ahead, and a few steps further on, at the next crossroads, turn sharp left and slightly uphill. The asphalt road soon flattens out again at the playground in Pečovje. As this is the starting point of the Barbara's Trail, you can initially follow its signs along our route. After three terraced houses, turn left onto the forest road, which turns into a forest track 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. Soon the road from Celje joins from the right. Continue left up the forest road, initially at weekends. Before the forest, a marked trail to Marija branches off to the left, and today we continue straight ahead on an unmarked road into the forest. The road initially runs somewhat parallel to the trail to Maria, then turns sharp right before the east ridge of Srebotnik and runs westwards along the entire northern slope of Srebotnik, where it slowly turns into a track leading to the west ridge of Srebotnik.
On the scenic western ridge, you reach a crossroads where you can see the Old Castle. If you had continued straight down the marked path, you would have arrived at Devil's Graben. Today, we will continue on the marked trail to the left, steeply uphill in an easterly direction. After an initially steep slope, the path becomes a bit steeper after a while, and then we come to a new crossroads, where the path from the southern approach to Srebotnik joins us from the right. The latter path is also part of the Celjska mountain trail. Continue straight up the ridge. There are only about 200 metres to the top, and in the last part of the path the steepness increases again, and the path is protected below the top by a rope. At the top, we are greeted by a beautiful view of practically all sides of the sky, a Slovenian flag, a registration book, a bench and a stamp. A few steps to the south-west, it is also possible to approach the exposed part of the viewing cliff.

On the way: Veliki Bojanski vrh (627m), Chapel at Mary's below Srebotnik (500m), Bavč (692m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Mali Bojanski vrh, Pečovniška koča na Grmadi ( 25 min), Celjska koča ( 30 min), Grmada nad Celjem ( 45 min), Almin dom na Svetini ( 5 min), Vrunčev dom na Svetini, Tolsti vrh nad Celjsko kočo ( 20 min)

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