Smrekovec

Smrekovec (1570 m) lies at the point where the ridge of Golte (the Mozirje mountains) meets at a right angle the ridge of the range that extends in a westerly direction across Krnes, Kamen, and Travnik towards Raduha above Solčava. The boundary between the Šoštanj and Gornji Grad judicial districts runs along Smrekovec. Smrekovec is most beautifully seen from the Saleska Valley, from where it has the shape of a cone.

Roughly halfway between it and Šoštanj, on a separate sharp hill, lies Sv. Križ above Bele Vode (1044 m) with its famous place of pilgrimage and a splendid view over the Saleska Valley.

Smrekovec is most easily and most closely accessible from Šoštanj, from where a marked path leads through the Šentflorjan gorge to Mostnar, then to the right past Grebenšek along the ditch between Sv. Križ and Bele Vode to the Honjec saddle, onward towards Lukat, from where you head left across the stream upwards, past the Spodnji and Zgornji Berložnik farms, and from here along a gentle path you reach the hut in 45 minutes. The whole route from Šoštanj is walked in about four hours. Whoever has time visits Sv. Križ or Bele Vode along the way.

A very beautiful and no longer marked path also leads to Smrekovec to the left of Mostnar across Lepa Njiva, where after 15 minutes of walking, at the first farm, you turn off the cart track to the right uphill past the landowners Krpuh, Pergovnik, Punčuh, and others, and along an almost level path you arrive at the Leskovšek sawmill in the Libija ditch, then turn left into the romantic gorge of the source of the Ljubija, which in places resembles Vintgar, then after half an hour's walk turn right towards Leskovšek, from where the path leads straight up through the forest towards the hut on Smrekovec.

You are also welcome at the Dom na Smrekovcu lodge. See the offer HERE.

Source: gore-ljudje.si