Spodnje Stranice (graves of hundred hostages) - Stolpnik (via Grofov štant)

Access to starting point:
A) Highway Ljubljana - Maribor we leave at exit Celje east, and then we follow the signs for Vojnik and forward Frankolovo and Slovenske Konjice. On the road, we drive to Spodnje Stranice, where we will on the left side of the road, at red hiking signposts notice a parking lot, where we park.
B) Highway Maribor - Ljubljana we leave at exit Slovenske Konjice, and then we follow the signs for Slovenske Konjice, and later Stranice and Vojnik. From the roundabout in Stranice we continue straight and we drive to Spodnje Stranice, where we will on the right side of the road, at red hiking signposts notice a parking lot, where we park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on the path in the direction of Stolpnik and at first we continue by the main road in the direction of Celje. We will soon get to a smaller crossroad, where we go left on a side road, by which continue the blazes, and we continue past few houses. Before the smaller bridge an unmarked forest road branches off to the right, on which there is also possible to come to the hunting cottage Štepih, and we continue straight on a marked road which higher leads past ponds Stranice and past water filling station Rogla. Further at few smaller crossroads we continue straight, and behind the chapel we start ascending a little steeper. Higher, we reach an asphalt road, where we join the path from Stranice, and we continue straight and past the chapel we quickly get to Kersnik homestead, behind which we go right on a side road. On the other side of the homestead signs for Stolpnik point us to the left on a cart track, and from the cart track already after few steps we go right upwards on a marked footpath. Further, the blazes are more frequent, and we follow them during the ascent through the forest. Higher, we reach the forest road which we only cross (right - hunting cottage Štepih and Stolpnik past the mentioned hunting cottage) and we continue the ascent on a gradually less steep path. And soon the footpath starts turning more and more to the left, where it is becoming also more overgrown and poorly marked. By the path which for quite some time crosses occasionally overgrown slopes, we notice some signs for XIV division trail. The mentioned path then joins the road which we follow to the left, and we walk there to the nearby crossroad (Grofof štant) by which there is a marked crossing.
We continue sharply right in the direction of Stolpnik (left - Slovenske Konjice, straight - Vojnik and Dramlje) to which separates us approximately half an hour of walking. The path ahead starts ascending steeper, and then for a short time entirely flattens. A gentle descent follows and then few minutes of a moderate ascent and the path which mostly runs through a dense forest quickly brings us to the summit, on which there is 25 meters high lookout tower.

On the way: Čretvež (534m), Hunting cottage Štepih (825m)