Leše - Uršlja gora (Plešivec) (via Koča na Naravskih ledinah)

Access to the starting point:
From Mežica, Border crossing Holmec or Ravenna na Koroškem, drive to Prevalje, from where you continue to the village of Leše. When you arrive in Leše, take a sharp left in the direction of Uršlja gora, then park in the parking lot near the branch primary school.

Path description:
From the starting point, continue in the direction of Uršlja gora, Naravskih ledin and KPP (Koroška planinska pot) and initially walk along the asphalt road, which leads us past a few houses. From the asphalt road, soon turn right onto the macadam road in the direction of Uršlja gora and Pačnik and Streha. At the last house, turn left onto cart track, which begins to climb over a meadow. At a higher altitude, you reach another dirt road, which you follow to the left, passing individual farmhouses, and at the crossroads, follow the signs for KPP or Nature's Ledine.
At the Pečnik farm, continue straight on, and at the next farm, Ravnjak, go slightly right on the marked cart track. Cart track first crosses a meadow with a view, but when it turns into a forest, it starts to descend crosswise and soon reaches a macadam road, which you follow upwards. The road soon turns left, crossing the Barbarski graben stream, where the H₂O ranch can be seen on the left, and a few steps further on, the marked trail branches off to the right. Continue on the signed cart track, which returns to the road higher up and makes a left serpentine. After the serpentine, the path leads us over a steep and scenic slope from which we have a beautiful view towards Huhnerkogel and Golica. The road then leads us past the Vranske peči climbing centre and the trail branch to the Suška bajta bivouac, and then, shortly after crossing the torrent, we leave it and continue on the marked trail. Then climb through the forest, crossing the smaller cart track, and when you reach cart track for the second time, follow it to the left. The slope here flattens out and after crossing a pasture fence we enter a pasture where the track disappears and we continue along the left edge of the forest. After the hunting observation post, the path turns slightly left and climbs to Obretanovo, where there are several buildings, including the Obretanovo Scout House of the Carinthian Steelworkers.
Continue along the road, which leads to a marked crossroads after the barrier, and we take the second path to the right, to a path that ascends and does not descend, and alongside it we see the sign Godec. The way ahead leads us without major ascents and descents, but quickly leads us to a road where the path forks, and the crossroads is not particularly marked. Continue right along the forest road (straight on the ascending cart track farm Godec and Uršlja gora over Kozji hrbet), from which the signs for the Nature Ledine soon direct you left up onto the footpath, where you then follow the signs. When walking on the cart track, which crosses the slopes, before it ends, you must continue down to the right and then cross the slopes on the mountain path. There is a short crossing of steeper slopes, and then descend the log steps back to the forest road (you can also walk on the forest road up to this point). The road, from which we get a temporary view, is soon left again and we continue left on the path, which "cuts" a slightly longer bend in the road over a small hill.
Just before we return to the road, which we continue to cross, we are joined on the left by the marked path from Raven na Koroškem. On the other side of the road, we continue through the forest for a short distance, and then the path leads us along the lower part of the meadow, where we join the path from Žerjav.
From the crossroads, continue along the right-hand edge of the meadow, and after 5 minutes of moderate ascent, walk to the Cottage on the Naravski Lediny.
At the cottage, step onto the road, walk a few steps, and then the signs for Uršlja gora lead you right onto a meadow, over which you climb moderately. At the top edge of the meadow, cross the road leading from Naravski Lediny to Križan and the top of Uršlja gora and start climbing through the forest on the footpath. After a few minutes of cross-climbing, the path flattens out and gets quite close to the road. At the point where we get fully close to the road there are usually a few parked cars in good weather, but we continue to the left along cart track, which leads us just a little further out of the woods to a slightly larger meadow. Across the meadow, follow the waymarked path, which takes us higher into the forest, where we continue our ascent along a wide path. From the path, which climbs transversely, we get a transient view towards Pec, and then a relatively new or freshly graded logging trail (May 2014) joins us from the left. Following the relatively wide logging trail, we climb up to a nearby holiday home, where a waymarked path over Kozji hrbet joins us from the left. Continue straight up the wide and well-trodden path, which opens up some more views a little higher up, and then the path gradually lays down and leads us into a less-consolidated forest. At the part where the forest thins out, we come to a small crossroads where we take the left, slightly steeper path leading to the top of Uršlja gora (the right path bypasses the top and leads directly to the Church of St Ursula and the Home on Uršlji Gora). There is a short climb through sparse woods, and then the forest finally ends and, with beautiful views, we quickly reach the cross at the top of Plešivec or Uršlje Gora.
From the top, you can walk another 5 minutes to the nearby Church of St Ursula and the mountain home.
Leše - Koča na Naravskih ledinah 2:40, Koča na Naravskih ledinah - Uršlja gora 1:45.

On the way: Kot pri Prevaljah (688m), Taborniški dom roda koroških jeklarjev Obretanovo (1040m), Koča na Naravskih ledinah (1072m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Dom na Uršlji gori

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