Studenice - Dom na Boču (on road and mountain path)

Access to starting point:
A) From the direction Maribor we leave the highway in Slovenska Bistrica, where signs point us to Poljčane. In the center, we turn left in the direction of Studenice and after about three kilometers, we reach Studenice, where we continue right through a bridge over the river Dravinja into the main part of the settlement. In front of the monastery complex we safely park.
B) From the direction Ljubljana we leave the highway in Slovenske Konjice and is through Žiče, Loče and Zbelovo we get to the center of Poljčane. In the center, we turn right in the direction of Studenice and after about three kilometers, we reach Studenice, where we continue right through a bridge over the river Dravinja into the main part of the settlement. In front of the monastery complex we safely park.
C) From the direction of Ptuj, Kidričevo through Ptujska gora, Majšperk and Makole we get to Studenice, where we continue left through a bridge over the river Dravinja into the main part of the settlement. In front of the monastery complex we safely park.

Path description:
After a short sightseeing of the main part of Studenice, we continue left from the monastery complex by the presbytery. In the passage/underpass between the presbytery and winegrowers association St. Martin Studenice we continue upwards on a cart track by a rocky wall and nun cemetery. We soon reach the source(s) of the stream Topli potok, which are left from the path and on a narrow footbridge we cross the stream. We continue upwards, now on the old Roman road which through long centuries retained the original form of the path higher into Boč. When we get to a forest road we turn left, right leads the road towards the settlement Podboč or Zgornje Poljčane.
We follow the forest road and left by the path is a turn-off for hunting cottage LD Poljčane, and we continue straight. At the first larger crossroad/crossing we continue straight or left, right leads the path on the road towards Formila, tower on Boč... At the crossroad on the right there is orientation point, a smaller abandoned concrete forestry storage. We continue on the road, left by the path there is a smaller partly abandoned wooden structure below the road and a little further on the left a viewpoint from where the view opens up towards the lower lands and towards Pohorje...
Further, we soon reach the crossing and hiking path from Makole. It isn't marked with signposts and we continue sharply right upwards, now on a forest mountain path, which is well marked with blazes. Right by the path there will be soon an iron hunting observatory, further, the path flattens a little at the midway ridge below Kisovec. Right from the path there is another, this time a wooden hunting observatory and we soon go downwards on a few years ago cutted forest part. Further, we go right on a wider forest road and then we are almost at Formila.
We reached Formila and then follows a short extension to a crossing, left for partisan hospital, Gaveza, chapel Grilova kapela, Plešivec...and right for mountain hut Dom na Boču. The crossing is also the juncture with the path Štajerska - Zagorje or,,B,, - path Bratska pot.
After a short sightseeing of Formila we continue right in the direction of the mountain hut Dom na Boču. We follow a well-hardened forest road through the forest. Further from the left steeply downwards forest road joins from the direction of Rogaška Slatina and also direct mountain path from the hunting lodge Rogaška Slatina and Gaveza. Soon in few ten meters we reach new crossing and we continue right, straight is direction for Kostrivnica. We continue walking and we are again at the crossing, where we go left on a classic forest mountain path, which we follow through the forest. Soon on a grassy plain and before the building under construction right upwards and immediately left again on the forest road. We follow the forest road and on a saddle we reach the highest point of today's path...727 meters. Next follows a descent lightly downwards and again a short ascent by the former snack bar Drevenik, which is on the left from the path. Few more strides and we reach an asphalt road and important crossing. A lot of options to continue but today we go right and downwards by a small abandoned quarry right by the path. Left by the path, we soon reach the church of St. Miklavž on Boč and on the right there is the destination...mountain hut Dom na Boču.
The path from Studenice measures in distance around 9000 meters, 560 positive altitude meters and 130 negative altitude meters.

On the way: Studeniški grad (315m), Izvir Toplega (Studeniškega) potoka (295m), Formila na Boču (624m), Partizanska bolnica na Formili/Boču (630m)

Trip can be extended to: Planinska koča Velikonočnica , Dom na Boču , Boč