Zagrad - Tolsti vrh above Celjska koča (eastern way)
Starting point: Zagrad (240 m)
| Lat/Lon: | 46,2117°N 15,2626°E |
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Name of path: eastern way
Time of walking: 1 h 45 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Altitude difference: 594 m
Altitude difference po putu: 700 m
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Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Maribor take the exit Celje and follow the road towards Laško. Shortly after Celje (before Laško), the road to Celjska Koča turns left (at the traffic lights) over a bridge. On the other side of the bridge over the Savinja River, continue to the right and follow the road for another 200m to the underpass under the railway line, after which you park in the parking lot near the fire brigade in Zagrad.
Path description:
From the parking lot at the fire station, we follow the marked footpath in the direction of Hotel Celjska koča, which after a short climb leads us to an asphalted road, which we then follow for some time. When the asphalt road makes a right turn (at the cross), leave it and continue straight ahead on a wide footpath that climbs along the edge of the meadow. In the upper part of the meadow, the path turns left and leads us to the road, which we follow to the right, but only to the point where the wide path to Hotel Celjska koča and Grmada (sharp left Grmada, steep path) branches upwards to the left. The path leads us higher up and leads us back to the road, where it leads us in a slight downhill past Trobiševa bukva. After a few minutes' walk along the road, a marked cart track branches off to the left uphill, which soon leads us to the crossroads of the route. Here we continue straight along the path, which soon leads us to the road, which we follow for a few minutes to Celjska huts.
From the hut, continue along the left-hand road in the direction of Svetina, which leads us after 15 minutes' walk to a crossroads where the path to Tolsti vrh branches off sharp right upwards. The path continues to climb through the forest and leads us in a few minutes above the quarry, which we bypass on the right. A little further on, the path from Svetina joins us from the left. There are only a few minutes of moderate ascent to the vegetated summit.
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