Spodnje Stranice (graves of hundred hostages) - Stolpnik (via hunting cottage Štepih)
Starting point: Spodnje Stranice (graves of hundred hostages) (413 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.349°N 15.34653°E 
Path name: via hunting cottage Štepih
Time of walking: 2 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 599 m
Altitude difference (by path): 610 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
A) Highway Ljubljana - Maribor we leave at exit Celje east, and then we follow the signs for Vojnik and forward Frankolovo and Slovenske Konjice. On the road, we drive to Spodnje Stranice, where we will on the left side of the road, at red hiking signposts notice a parking lot, where we park.
B) Highway Maribor - Ljubljana we leave at exit Slovenske Konjice, and then we follow the signs for Slovenske Konjice, and later Stranice and Vojnik. From the roundabout in Stranice we continue straight and we drive to Spodnje Stranice, where we will on the right side of the road, at red hiking signposts notice a parking lot, where we park.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on the path in the direction of Stolpnik and at first we continue by the main road in the direction of Celje. We will soon get to a smaller crossroad, where we go left on a side road, by which continue the blazes, and we continue past few houses. Before the smaller bridge an unmarked forest road branches off to the right, on which there is also possible to come to the hunting cottage Štepih, and we continue straight on a marked road which higher leads past ponds Stranice and past water filling station Rogla. Further at few smaller crossroads we continue straight, and behind the chapel we start ascending a little steeper. Higher, we reach an asphalt road, where we join the path from Stranice, and we continue straight and past the chapel we quickly get to Kersnik homestead, behind which we go right on a side road. On the other side of the homestead signs for Stolpnik point us to the left on a cart track, and from the cart track already after few steps we go right upwards on a marked footpath. Further, the blazes are more frequent, and we follow them during the ascent through the forest.
Higher, we step on the forest road and we follow it to the right towards the hunting cottage Štepih (straight on a footpath - Stolpnik via Grofov štant). We continue on the macadam road, on which in approximately 15 minutes of additional walking, we get to a crossroad, where we go left and then we quickly get to the already mentioned hunting cottage.
At the hunting cottage, we leave the road and we continue left on a marked footpath in the direction of Stolpnik. Next follows a relatively short ascent through the forest and then we cross the forest road. Also on the other side of the road, we are ascending through the forest, and higher we go through a shorter panoramic part, from which a nice view opens up on part of Karawanks and on Pohorje. The path after that part returns into the forest, through which we continue all to the few minutes distant peak, where stands 25 meters high lookout tower.
Spodnje Stranice - Čretvež 0:35, Čretvež - Hunting cottage 1:00, hunting cottage - Stolpnik 0:25.
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