Brzika - Formila na Boču

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Rogaška Slatina, then continue driving towards Rogatec. In Rogatec, at the roundabout, we turn "left" towards Ptuj, then drive on the main road to the Brzika pass, where we notice red hiking signposts next to which we park in an appropriate place.
B) We drive to Majšperk, then follow the signs for Stoperce and Rogatec. After Stoperce, the road starts to ascend more steeply, and we follow it to the Brzika pass, where we notice red hiking signposts next to which we park in an appropriate place.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue a few dozen steps along the asphalt road towards Stoperce, then turn left onto a side road with signs for Ložno. There follows some ascent through the forest, then the road flattens and leads us through the yard of a homestead. Behind the homestead, we descend along a marked cart track, which lower down enters the forest; at the forest entrance, we leave it and continue slightly left onto a footpath along which we ascend again. There follows a short descent where we cross the route of a high-pressure gas pipeline, then we ascend more steeply for a few minutes. Higher up, we bypass an unnamed 499-meter-high peak on the left, as shown on maps, after which there follows some moderate descent, then ascent to the next unnamed peak. From there also follows some descent, lower down we reach a cart track along which we continue to the tourist farm Ložno, where we continue right towards Boč (left to the Church of Our Lady of Loreto at Ložno, 5 minutes).
There follows a few minutes of moderate ascent, then the path enters the forest, where along the cart track it crosses the slopes to the left. A little further, we approach some houses, and along the fence we reach a road down which in a few minutes we descend to the asphalt road, which we follow to the right. There follows some walking along the asphalt road where we pass under the route of the high-voltage power line, then from the right joins the path from Okrepčevalnica Zelena dolina.
There follows ascent along the asphalt road, from which occasionally a nice view opens onto the surrounding hills, higher up the road flattens and takes us past a chapel to the hamlet of Ravnocerje.
Here we go behind the homestead on the right, right onto the marked cart track along which we ascend to a marked junction where we join the path from Cerovec pod Bočem.
The path ahead ascends transversely along the cart track and quickly brings us to the ridge west of Ravnocerje. Here the path turns slightly left (sharply right to Ravnocerje peak, 3 minutes) and leads us past water that we see below the path. For a short time we continue along the forested ridge, then the path turns right and transitions to the slope, where at several junctions we follow the blazes. Higher up from the cart track we go left onto the marked footpath (the cart track a little further joins the forest road), beside which we notice a sign with the inscription forest reserve Boč. The path ahead along the left, sunny side bypasses the highest point of Plešivca, which is located on an indistinct peak, then we gradually begin to descend. Lower down we reach a marked junction where we join the path from Cerovec pod Bočem, and we continue to the nearby road.
When we reach the road we go left, and left also at the nearby junction (right Makole). There follows some descent along the macadam road, and when we leave the forest past a religious symbol we arrive at a junction from which we go straight ahead (left leads the road into the valley towards Rogaška Slatina) and bypass homestead Gavez on the left side, and on the right the nearby hunting lodge Rogaška Slatina.
Behind the lodge we descend to another road and follow it to the right. When the road begins to ascend we leave it and continue right downwards (straight Boč) and along the marked cart track we begin to descend through the forest. Lower down we reach another road and follow it to the left, along which we continue with an easy descent. After a few minutes, on the right we will notice signs for the partisan hospital, which direct us from the road to the right to the place where the partisan hospital once stood.
From the former partisan hospital we return to the road, along which we continue to the meadow Formila a few minutes away.
Starting point - partisan hospital 2:55, Partisan hospital - Formila 0:05.
Description and pictures (except the penultimate) refer to the conditions in January 2023 and March 2024.

On the way: Partisan hospital on Formila/Boč (630m)