Hayrack (Laška vas - Pečovje) - Almin dom na Svetini (via Mirt)
Starting point: Hayrack (Laška vas - Pečovje) (316 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.21104°N 15.30886°E
Path name: via Mirt
Time of walking: 1 h 20 min
Difficulty: easy marked way, easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 456 m
Altitude difference (by path): 456 m
Map: Celjska kotlina, 1:50000
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 the mountain hut Almin dom or Dom na Svetini is marked and equipped with signposts of the path Barbarina pot or Svetina. And a smaller part of our path will in the main part run on an unmarked footpath.
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 located a starting point of the path Barbarina pot, so the first part 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 at the crossing we continue to the left on the path which leads via Bojanski graben and we leave the path Barbarina pot, which leads straight steeply uphill. We follow the marked path in the narrow gorge of the stream Bojanski potok, but only to the first crossing, where the marked path branches off to the left steeply uphill, and we continue along the stream Bojanski potok straight. We soon get to the abandoned homestead Mirtova domačija, where we cross the stream, we leave the gorge and we continue on a narrow footpath steeply uphill. Soon the footpath turns into a cart track which past larger number of crossings we follow upwards, and at the end, we join the marked path Barbarina pot, which is coming from the right past Marija, somehow parallel with the path along the stream Bojanski potok.
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. We soon reach another crossing, where we continue to the left towards Almin dom, and to the right the path branches off towards Tolsti vrh. Soon the path brings us on the ridge, past the turn-off right downwards towards Svetina, where we continue straight to the mountain hut Almin dom, or Dom na Svetini, which offers a breathtaking view 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.
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