Kokarje (ŠRC Laze) - Vrhe (via Dom na Farbanci)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Mozirje (to here from Šoštanj or highway Ljubljana - Maribor (exit Šentrupert)), from where from the main roundabout we continue driving towards Gornji Grad and Logarska dolina. A few kilometers ahead, after the Petrol gas station, we turn left in the direction of Nazarje. Further, we drive through Nazarje, where we follow the signs for settlements Dobletina and Šmartno ob Dreti. Soon after Dobletina and still before Lačja vas, we turn left in the direction of Kokarje. Further, we cross the bridge over the river Dreta, and then we quickly arrive in Kokarje, where at the marked intersection we continue slightly right in the direction of the sports field Laze, to which we arrive after a few hundred meters of additional driving. We park on the parking lot by ŠRC Laze.
B) We drive to the settlement Šmartno ob Dreti (to here from Gornji Grad, Ljubno ob Savinji or Vransko over the mountain pass Lipa), and then we continue driving towards Nazarje. After Lačja vas we turn right in the direction of Kokarje. Further, we cross the bridge over the river Dreta, and then we quickly arrive in Kokarje, where at the marked intersection we continue slightly right in the direction of the sports field Laze, to which we arrive after a few hundred meters of additional driving. We park on the parking lot by ŠRC Laze.

Path description:
Near the starting point, there is a marked junction, from where we head onto the lower road in the direction of the mountain hut Dom na Farbanci (slightly left Čreta over Tajna). The path first leads along the sports field, where at the unmarked intersection we continue straight or slightly left. On the other side of ŠRC Laze the road changes into a cart track, which then enters the forest. To the wide cart track at some junctions we follow in the direction of the blazes, then at the place where the cart track turns right and crosses a torrent, we continue left onto a steep path. The path quickly levels out, then at the junctions we follow the blazes again. A little further the ascent ends and a descent follows to the nearby asphalt road, which we follow to the right; past two houses we quickly reach the mountain direction signs, where we continue left over a small wooden bridge onto the footpath in the direction of the mountain hut Dom na Farbanci. An ascent through the forest follows, where we first ascend along the cart track, higher along a nicely maintained footpath that leads us past Lahki studenec spring. Above the spring we cross another cart track, then the relatively steep path levels out somewhat and enters an indistinct little valley. From the little valley we soon turn somewhat to the right, then we first join the cart track, a few steps higher also the macadam road, along which we quickly reach the Dom planincev na Farbanci.
From Dom na Farbanci we continue left from the left road, where the path past a wooden hut leads us into the forest. Through the forest we first ascend along a mountain path, then we reach a wide cart track along which we continue a relatively steep ascent. Higher the cart track turns sharply left, even higher somewhat to the right, where it also levels out and splits into two parts. We continue along the slightly left one, along which there are also blazes. Further a fairly level path leads us past a smaller chasm, then we quickly reach the forest road, along which we then ascend still to the nearby marked junction Borovnjak, where the path to Tolsti vrh branches off to the right, and we continue along the left road in the direction of Čreta.
A few more minutes of walking through the forest follow, then when we emerge from the forest, at the junction we continue left in the direction of Čreta.
A short ascent to the chapel of St. Katarina follows, then through the yard of the nearby house we walk to the next junction, where another path from the settlement Kokarje joins us from the left.
We continue slightly right in the direction of Čreta (right Dom na Čreti) and continue the ascent along the cart track that leads us into the forest. When the path levels out, it leads us still past a chapel and the NOB memorial, and we are already at the church of St. Mary, from which a beautiful view opens up.
From the church we continue straight, cross the pasture fence and the path leads us into the forest. In the forest the path splits into two parts, we choose the right one and after a few dozen steps of further walking we step onto the indistinct summit.

On the way: Potok (Mostni graben) (395m), Dom planincev Farbanca (702m), Sv. Katarina (Dobrovlje) (915m), Sveta Mati Božja na Čreti (944m)