Snack Bar Zelena dolina - Formila na Boču

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 we leave it and we continue right downwards (straight - Boč) and on a marked cart track we start descending through the forest. Lower, we reach another road and we follow it to the left, and we continue there with an easy descent. And after few minutes on the right we will notice signs for partisan hospital, which from the road point us to the right to the spot, where used to be a partisan hospital.
From the former partisan hospital we return on the road, and there we continue to the few minutes distant meadow Formila.
The starting point - Partisan hospital 2:25, Partisan hospital - Formila 0:05.
Description and pictures (except the penultimate) refer to conditions in January 2023 and March 2024.

On the way: Plešivec (pri Boču) (822m), Partisan hospital on Formila/Boč (630m)