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

Access to starting point:
Hayrack "Laška vas - Pečovje" is an ideal starting point for mountaineering tours on the nearby hills. Hayrack was for a long time a characteristic of the gorge of the stream Bojanski potok between Pečovje and Laška vas, through which runs also an asphalted road. Few years back the hayrack owned by the farmer miserably decayed, but the municipality Štore because of the recognisability made a new one with the help of European funds with a purpose to preserve vernacular architecture. Next to the hayrack there is a large parking lot, where we can park our vehicle. So to the starting point, we can get with a car from Celje and Štore, where we follow signposts for Svetina. When we already get past the area of the old part of iron works in Štore, we leave the main road to Svetina and at the turn-off we turn right towards Pečovje or Laška vas. We continue on a narrow asphalt road for approx 1 km and we are already at the hayrack. Or we can get to the starting point also on foot, because the path from the railway station Štore to the hayrack is marked.

Path description:
The beginning of the path is at the new hayrack. A larger part our path to Bavč is marked and equipped with signposts for various peaks of Celje hills. Only a smaller part of our path will run on an unmarked footpath which is on attached picture clearly visible.
At the crossroad at the hayrack in accordance with the signposts on Svetina via Marija we go on the asphalt road ahead in the direction of Pečovje. After approx 200 meters at the first crossroad we continue straight, and few steps ahead at the next crossroad we turn sharply left and a little uphill. An asphalt road at the sports field in the settlement Pečovje soon flattens again. Because of the starting point of the path Barbarina pot, we can at first follow the signs of this path. After three terraced houses, we turn left on the forest road which at the last homestead passes into a forest path. Soon the path branches off to the left, which leads through Bojanski graben, while we continue straight upwards through a dense forest. Soon from the right joins the path from Celje. We continue left on the forest road by holiday cottages and then once again left higher on a little narrower forest forest path partly also a cart track. The path is again a little steeper ascending and on the left side there are also some steel cables, more in the function of a fence than grip. We soon reach the crossing. Straight upwards there are signs CPP (Celje mountain trail) on Srebotnik, but today we continue left slightly downwards by the chapel with the image of Mary carved into the wall of Srebotnik. We continue upwards and on a wide forest path, partly a cart track, we soon reach the crossing. Here we continue right on a hardened forest road slightly upwards. We follow the forest road few hundred meters to another crossing below the south access on Srebotnik.
Left uphill we can come on Tolsti vrh, right uphill we can come on Srebotnik, and we continue further on the forest road slightly to the left downwards on CPP, which in this part connects Srebotnik with Tolsti vrh. We follow the forest path for few more 100 meters to the first crossing of paths and stream Hudičev potok, where left uphill CPP branches off towards Tolsti vrh. Here we continue across the stream, where the forest path passes on an unmarked footpath. We follow the footpath on a diverse path about a kilometer through the forest, until we get to a bigger crossing on the saddle on the south side of Bavč, where from the right joins the marked path from Hudičev graben in the direction towards Grmada straight.
At this crossing we today turn to the right on an unmarked path on the ridge of Bavč (and also a little more right downwards leads a marked path into Hudičev graben). We continue towards the north on the ridge and on an unmarked path we soon get 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)

Trip can be extended to: Grmada above Celje ( 15 min) , Tolsti vrh above Celjska koča