Snack Bar Zelena dolina - Boč (senčna pot)

Access to starting point:
From the road Rogatec - Majšperk, on the southern side of the settlement Stoperce, we turn left towards the snack bar Zelena dolina (from the direction of Majšperk, we turn right). Next follows a light to moderate ascent along the stream Beneščica, and we arrive at the parking lot by the snack bar Zelena dolina.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road ahead, and by the path, we are accompanied by blazes, which higher up direct us left from the road onto a footpath that initially steeply ascends through the forest. A few minutes ahead, we return to the asphalt road, but after a few steps, we leave it and, in the middle of a right turn, continue straight on a marked cart track that ascends diagonally below the route of a high-voltage power line. A little further, the cart track widens into a road, and we follow it to the left, where we cross the slopes towards the left.
During the crossing, we pass by a holiday cottage, then continue through the forest, where the path also leads us past the NOB monument. When the crossing ends, behind a homestead, we reach a marked junction, where we turn right towards Boč (left Ložno and Donačka gora).
Next follows an ascent on the asphalt road, from which a nice view of the surrounding hills occasionally opens up, and higher up, the road flattens and leads us past a chapel to the hamlet Ravnocerje.
Here, we go behind the homestead on the right, turning right onto a marked cart track, which we follow to ascend to a marked junction, where we join the path from Cerovec pod Bočem.
The path ahead ascends diagonally along a cart track and quickly brings us to the ridge west of Ravnocerje. Here, the path turns slightly to the left (sharply right to the peak Ravnocerje, 3 minutes) and leads us past a stream, which we see below the path. For a short time, we continue along the forested ridge, then the path turns right and moves onto a slope, where at several junctions we follow the blazes. Higher up, we leave the cart track to the left onto a marked footpath (the cart track soon joins a forest road), and along the path, we notice a sign indicating the Boč forest reserve. The path continues on the left, sunny side, bypassing the highest point of Plešivec, located on an indistinct summit, and then we gradually begin to descend. Lower down, we reach a marked junction where we join the path from Cerovec pod Bočem, and we continue to a nearby road.
When we reach the road, we go left, and we go left also at the nearby crossroad (right - Makole). Next follows some descent on a macadam road, and when we leave the forest, past a religious symbol we get to a crossroad, at which we go straight (to the left leads the road into a valley in the direction of Rogaška Slatina) and on the left side we bypass homestead Gavez, and on the right the nearby hunting lodge Rogaška Slatina.
Behind the lodge we descend to another road and we follow it to the right. When the road starts ascending, the marked path branches off to the right, which leads towards Formila and Makole, and we continue on the asphalt road which starts ascending. After a short ascent the road splits, and we continue on a slightly left road which starts descending (slightly right road leads to a private house). Next follows a descent on the macadam road which a little lower brings us to a crossroad, where we go right downwards in the direction of Boč. Further we are still descending, and at the next crossroad, where we join the path from Makole we go left. And only a little ahead we go right. From the last crossroad we walk on the road only a short time, and then we go left on a marked path, which on a cart track ascends to the spot, where used to be a forestry cottage, and now there is a new cottage (condition May 2022).
Here we again step on the road which we follow to the left (across the road leads an unmarked path on Boč, or we can join also the road which leads towards Boč). Further, we walk on the road which crosses slopes of Boč towards the left, and there we are at first still gently ascending, and later we also descend a little.
Few 10 strides before we reach the asphalt road, we go from the road right on a marked path Senčna pot which leads towards Boč (if we continue on the road or parallel mountain path we would in 5 minutes get to Dom na Boču).
The path ahead leads us on a cart track, or on some parts parallel with it, and higher we leave the cart track and we continue the ascent on increasingly steep mountain path. For some time we are ascending on a well-beaten marked path, and higher the marked path turns right and avoids the footpath which is used by majority of mountaineers and we diagonally ascend towards the right, where after few minutes we reach the southeastern ridge of Boč, where from the right joins a worse unmarked footpath which leads on the mentioned ridge (the beginning of the mentioned path is at the before mentioned forestry cottage).
Here the marked path turns left, and we continue on a forested ridge. A little further from the left joins also the already mentioned better beaten path, and we continue straight and we quickly get to a lookout tower on Boč.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in May 2022, January 2023 and March 2024.

On the way: Plešivec (pri Boču) (822m)