Hayrack (Laška vas - Pečovje) - Bavč (via chapel at Mary)

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 hut. 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 Bavč is marked and marked to the various peaks of the Celje hills. Only a small part of our route will follow an unmarked path, which is clearly visible in the attached picture.
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 path from Celje joins from the right. Continue left along the forest road at weekends and then left again along a slightly narrower forest path partly also logging trail higher up. The path climbs again a little steeper and there are also a few steel cables on the left, more as a fence than a handrail. A crossroads is soon reached. Straight up are the CPP (Celjska planinska pot) markers on Srebotnik, but today we continue left slightly downhill by the chapel with the image of Mary carved into the wall of Srebotnika. We continue upwards and along a wide forest path, partly logging trail, we soon reach a crossroads. Here continue right on a well-worn forest road slightly uphill. Follow the Gozdnik road for a few hundred metres to another crossroads below the southern access to Srebotnik.
Left uphill to reach Tolsti vrh, right uphill to reach Srebotnik, and we continue on the forest road slightly left downhill on the CPP, which in this part connects Srebotnik with Tolsti vrh. Follow the Gozdnik trail for another 100 metres to the first crossroads of the trail and the Hudičevski brook, where the CPP to Tolstý vrh branches off to the left uphill. Here we continue across the stream, where the forest path becomes an unmarked path. Follow the path along the rugged trail for about a kilometre through the forest until you reach a major fork in the trail at a saddle on the south side of Bavč, where a marked and marked trail from Hudičův grápno joins from the right in the direction of Grmada straight ahead. At this crossroads, we turn right today onto the unmarked path along the Bavč ridge (a marked path to Hudičev graben leads a little further down to the right). Continue north along the ridge and soon arrive on the unmarked path to the top of Bavč.

On the way: Srebotnik (700m), Chapel at Mary's below Srebotnik (500m), Pečovniška koča on Grmada (620m), Hotel Celjska koča (652m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Grmada nad Celjem ( 15 min), Tolsti vrh nad Celjsko kočo

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