Hayrack (Laška vas - Pečovje) - Vrunčev dom na Svetini (via chapel at Mary)

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. The entire path is marked, it is managed by PD Železar Štore, and larger part of our is marked also with signposts of the path Barbarina pot or Svetina. 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 soon flattens again at the sports field in the settlement Pečovje. Here is the starting point of the path Barbarina pot. 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/Teharje/Zvodno, where we continue to the left on the forest road by holiday cottages and then once again to the left on a little narrower forest path, higher also partly a logging trail. 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. At the next crossing, we cross the forest road and we continue on the ridge in accordance with blazes and signposts of the path Barbarina pot and towards Svetina. Higher, we reach another crossing, where to the left we continue towards Almin dom, and to the right the path branches off towards Tolsti vrh. The path brings us on the ridge, where there is a turn-off right downwards towards Svetina, and we continue straight to the mountain hut Almin dom, or Dom na Svetini. Here a breathtaking view opens up on the south side on beautiful village Svetina and surrounding hills. Just above the hut there is the peak with name Ramanca (781 meters), and from the nearby there is a nice view also towards the north. To the mountain hut Vrunčev dom we have only ten more minutes of additional walking on the ridge towards the east.

On the way: Chapel at Mary's below Srebotnik (500m), Srebotnik (700m), Veliki Bojanski vrh (627m), Almin dom na Svetini (772m)