Laško - Malič (on eastern ridge of Malič)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Maribor we take the exit Celje - center, then continue driving towards Laško and Zidani Most. When we arrive in Laško, at the traffic light opposite the gas station we turn right in the direction of Spodnja and Zgornja Rečica and Huda Jama. We park on one of the parking lots near the fire station Laško.
B) From Zasavje or Posavje we drive to Zidani Most or Rimske Toplice, then continue driving towards Celje. When we arrive in Laško, the signs for Spodnja and Zgornja Rečica and Huda Jama direct us left. Here we continue left and then park on one of the parking lots near the fire station Laško.

Path description:
At the fire station Laško we notice a marked path that leads from the railway station Laško towards the Dom na Šmohorju, managed by PD Laško. The first half of our trip follows this marked path, then continues on an unmarked but partly marked trail.
From the above-described starting point, where parking is possible in front of the apartment blocks, the path first leads past the fire station Laško slightly uphill, then after some 10 m we arrive at a small chapel, next to which we notice mountain signposts for Šmohor, Malič, Mrzlica and Kal. Here we continue along the ascending road, then the blazes direct us to the stairs between the residential houses. The path continues across a meadow, then past a cross into a strip of forest. Soon we step onto a macadam road, along which with nice views of Malič and the rest of Posavsko hribovje, past the chapel, we ascend to the asphalt road. We follow the mentioned road in the direction of Malič, further past the branch-off to the farm Primož. In a smaller hamlet higher up the asphalt ends. We continue along the marked macadam forest road, which gradually turns into a cart track. This soon takes us out of the forest to the next farm. Following the signpost for Šmohor we continue through the farm along the cart track, which climbs between pasture fences, then enters the forest and forks into two parts. Along the lower left cart track the marked path to Šmohor continues, while we leave the markings and proceed along the right cart track, which a few dozen meters higher joins a macadam road, which we follow to the right. The road then leads past two farms all the way to the junction before the homestead Zamalič (or Malšek), where an unmarked but signposted path from Tremerje joins us from the right. To here approximately 1 hour of walking.
We follow the signpost for "VRH" and "hvala ker hodite po stezi", and bypass the homestead. At the top of the clearing on the edge of the forest we are greeted by beautiful views of the surrounding hills, a pleasant little house for gnomes and a bench. We enter the forest again, where a varied path along hairpin turns mainly in a north-northeast direction brings us to the eastern ridge of Malič. Here we turn sharply left westward onto the ridge, where the gradient and difficulty of the path increase slightly. Ascending the ridge we notice old markings from the 1970s, while to the left towards Laško initially shy views open up. At 802 meters altitude a wonderful panoramic point with a table and bench surprises us. The view extends eastward over the entire surrounding hills above the Savinja. We continue along the ridge, where the gradient begins to ease. A few more minutes and we are at the summit of Malič, which unfortunately is not panoramic, but a fairly large telecommunications tower awaits us. To here from the starting point approximately 4.9 km.
The summit stamp is located in Planinski dom Šmohor.