Hayrack (Laška vas - Pečovje) - Pečovniška koča on Grmada (via chapel at Mary and Bavč)

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 drive past the area of old part of iron works in Štore, we leave the main road towards Svetina and we turn to the right on turn-off towards Pečovje. 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 starting point of the path is at the new hayrack. A larger part of our path to Pečovniška koča on Grmada is marked and equipped with signposts to various peaks of Celje hills. Only a smaller part of our path will run on an unmarked footpath, we will get help from attached map and detailed description.
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 second crossroad we continue sharply to the left and a little uphill. An asphalt road at the sports field in the settlement Pečovje soon flattens again. Here is located the starting point of the path Barbarina pot, so the first half of our trip we just follow its signposts. After three terraced houses, we turn to the 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. Then from the right joins the path from Celje, where we continue to the left on the forest road along holiday cottages and then once again to the left on a little narrower forest path higher partly also a cart track. The path is again a little steeper ascending and we get help also from few cables, more in the function of a fence than a grip. We soon reach the crossing. Straight upwards signs CPP (Celje mountain trail) pointing towards Srebotnik, but we continue left at first slightly downwards past the chapel with the image of Mary carved into a wall of Srebotnik, and then we go slightly upwards on a wide forest path, partly cart track. We soon reach another crossing, where we continue to the right on a hardened forest road slightly upwards and we stop following the signposts for path Barbarina pot. We follow the forest road few hundred meters to another crossing on the saddle below the southern access on Srebotnik.
To the left we can ascend on Tolsti vrh, to the right we can ascend on Srebotnik, but we continue on the forest road slightly to the left downwards on CPP, which in this part connects Srebotnik with Tolsti vrh. We follow the forest road few hundred meters to the first crossing or to the stream Hudičev potok, where the path CPP branches off to the left upwards towards Tolsti vrh. We continue to the right across the stream, where the forest road passes into an unmarked forest path. We continue on a diverse path about a kilometer through the forest, until we get to a bigger crossing of paths on the saddle on the southern side of Bavč, where from the right joins the marked path from Hudičev graben towards Grmada. The path here widens into a cart track, on which we continue past Bavč. A little further there is another crossing, where from the right joins the path via Suhi potok. We continue straight in the direction of the mountain hut Pečovniška koča on a wide macadam road, past the turn-off for Tolsti vrh, all the way to the farm Čater. Here signs for Grmada point us to the right on the path which ascends between the residential house and business building. We continue on a gentle cart track which crosses a lane of a forest and only a little further brings us to the mountain hut Pečovniška koča.

On the way: Veliki Bojanski vrh (627m), Bavč (692m), Srebotnik (700m), Chapel at Mary's below Srebotnik (500m), Grmada above Celje (718m), Tolsti vrh above Celjska koča (834m), Hotel Celjska koča (652m)

Trip can be extended to: Almin dom na Svetini