Zvodno - Bavč (via Suhi potok)

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Maribor, we go to the exit Celje - center and we continue driving in the direction Laško and Zidani Most. The road ahead leads through the center of Celje, and then it brings us to a roundabout with a fountain. Here we continue "straight" (direction Laško and Zidani Most) and we follow the road to the next traffic light crossroad, where we continue left, we drive over the river Savinja and then at the crossroad behind the bridge we continue right. Further, we get to the underpass under the railway track and only few meters ahead to the fire station in Zagrad. We continue straight and we follow the road through the village, and higher it brings us to a smaller crossroad, where we notice signs for Suhi potok - right, Hudičev graben - straight. At the crossroad, we park near the bus stop.

Path description:
In Zvodno, at the crossroad at the bus stop in accordance with the signposts we continue right in the direction of the cottage Pečovniška koča on Grmada (and stream Suhi potok - once there was visible caption on a concrete retaining wall), straight on an asphalt path goes towards Hudičev graben, from where we can also ascend on Bavč. We follow the macadam grounding or forest road few hundred meters. At the marked crossing we continue left and a little upwards on a forest path or riverbed of the stream Suhi potok. Further once again a little to the left (to the right we come into an abandoned quarry) and we follow hiking forest path upwards, where on the left side we bypass the quarry. The path is well hardened and marked. It is pleasantly winding along the riverbed of the stream Suhi potok higher into the area between Bavč on the left side and Grmada on the right side. We soon reach the crossing, we continue left by Bavč (right path goes to the cottage Pečovniška koča on Grmada). We join the macadam road which is coming from the right. We continue on the road upwards and after some time we come to a crossing, where we turn sharply left in the direction from where it is coming the path from Hudičev graben towards the cottage Pečovniška koča. Few 100 meters more and we come to a bigger crossing at the hunting observatory. We continue left on the ridge of Bavč (little less left downwards a marked path goes into Hudičev graben, and straight goes unmarked path towards Srebotnik). We continue towards the north on the ridge of Bavč and on an unmarked path we soon get to our destination.

On the way: Pečovniška koča na Grmadi (620m)

Trip can be extended to: Hotel Celjska koča , Srebotnik , Grmada above Celje ( 5 min) , Tolsti vrh above Celjska koča