Cerovec pod Bočem - Formila na Boču

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Maribor highway, take the Dravlje exit, then follow the signs for Šentjur and further to Rogaška Slatina. When we approach Rogaška Slatina, do not drive towards the settlement, but continue in the direction of Rogatec. A little further, we arrive at the settlement Cerovec pod Bočem, where we park beyond the intersection, where the road branches off to the left towards Sveti Florijan.
B) From the Maribor - Ljubljana highway, take the Slovenska Bistrica south exit, then follow the signs for Rogaška Slatina. When we approach Rogaška Slatina, do not drive towards the settlement, but continue in the direction of Rogatec. A little further, we arrive at the settlement Cerovec pod Bočem, where we park beyond the intersection, where the road branches off to the left towards Sveti Florijan.

Path description:
From the parking lot on the pedestrian crossing we carefully cross the main road, then we head to the road towards Sveti Florijan, soon along the path we notice red mountain signposts for Grilova kapela and Boč. At first we walk on the sidewalk, after a few minutes the path turns east and splits a little further on. Before the chapel we continue on the left road, along which the blazes continue. We continue between some houses of the settlement Cerovec pod Bočem, where we follow the blazes, higher the asphalt path leads us into the gorge of Tržiški potok. For some time we continue along the mentioned gorge, then the road turns sharply left and gradually moves away from the stream.
A little higher, the signs for Grilova kapela and Boč direct us left onto a side road (straight to ranch Stojnšek), along which we continue ascending.
Higher we go left again, then past Grilov vodnjak we arrive out of the forest, where on the left, at the edge of the forest we notice Grilova kapela.
Here we go right in the direction of Boč and Ložno and return to the forest. We then ascend the slopes of Grilov vrh (612 m), higher we reach a larger clearing on the northern side of the mentioned peak.
Here from the southern part of the clearing a view opens up reaching to the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, we go right, where on the right side we bypass an older wooden cottage. Only a short ascent on the cart track follows and we reach the forest road, where the marked path splits.
We continue straight in the direction of Boč (right Rudijev dom and Ložno), where we steeply ascend the marked path. The path ahead first leads us through a belt of bushes, from which some views open up, then the path enters the forest through which it still ascends quite steeply. Higher the path and the slope level out, we follow the marked path to a marked junction, from which we continue straight to the nearby road (right Donačka gora).
When we reach the road we go left, left also at the nearby intersection (right Makole). Some descent on the macadam road follows, when we leave the forest past a shrine we arrive at an intersection, from which we go straight (left leads the road into the valley towards Rogaška Slatina) and on the left side bypass the Gavez homestead, on the right the nearby hunting lodge Rogaška Slatina.
Behind the lodge we descend to another road and follow it right. When the road begins to ascend we leave it and continue right downhill (straight Boč) and begin descending through the forest on the marked cart track. Lower we reach another road and follow it left, continuing an easy descent along it. After a few minutes we will notice on the right signs for the partisan hospital, which direct us from the road 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 - Grilova kapela 0:45, Grilova kapela - partisan hospital 1:15, partisan hospital - Formila 0:05.
Description and pictures (except the penultimate) refer to the condition in January 2023.

On the way: Gril's chapel on Boč (534m), Partisan hospital on Formila/Boč (630m)