Dom na Osankarici - Koča na Šumiku (via pohorski bataljon)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana - Maribor motorway, take the Slovenske Konjice exit and follow the road to the above-mentioned place. At Slovenske Konjice turn right towards Oplotnica, which is a few kilometres away on a winding road. At Oplotnica, where you join the road from Slovenska Bistrica, turn left towards Osankarica. Continue along the Oplotnica stream for a while, then reach a crossroads where the road splits into two. Here you can continue left in the direction of Osankarica, or right in the direction of the village of Kebelj. If you continue on the left road, it soon turns into a macadam road, and higher up it leads to a slightly larger crossroads, where you continue to the right in the direction of Osankarica (left Rogla). From the crossroads, there are a few more serpentines and the macadam road leads to a parking lot under Dom na Osankarici (from the fork in the road, it is about 9 km to the starting point). If you continue on the right road, you can reach Dom na Osankarici by a slightly longer, but still asphalted, road. All junctions are well marked.
b) From the motorway Maribor - Ljubljana, take the exit Slovenska Bistrica - South, then continue to Oplotnica. At Oplotnica, where you see signs for Osankarica, continue straight ahead, then climb for a while along the Oplotnica stream, where after a short climb you reach a point where the road splits into two parts. Here you can continue left towards Osankarica, or right towards the village of Kebelj. If you continue on the left road, it soon turns into a macadam road, and higher up it leads to a slightly larger crossroads, where you continue to the right in the direction of Osankarica (left Rogla). From the crossroads, there are a few more serpentines and the macadam road leads to a parking lot under Dom na Osankarici (from the fork in the road, it is about 9 km to the starting point). If you continue on the right road, you can reach Dom na Osankarici by a slightly longer, but still asphalted, road. All junctions are well marked.
c) Drive to Ruše (to get here from Maribor or Selnica ob Dravi) and then continue to Smolnik and higher up to Šumik. At the junction where the road to Koča na Šumiku turns right, continue straight ahead. There is a sharp left turn near which is the trailhead for the Šumik waterfall, and we arrive just a little further on at the next crossroads, where we continue to the right in the direction of Osankarica. A few kilometres of macadam road follow and you reach a parking area under the Dom na Osankarici.

Path description:
From the parking lot, walk first to the house on Osankarica, where you will see signs for the Pohorje Battalion camp. Take this path, which after a moderate ascent through the forest leads to the Pohorje Battalion camp after about half an hour's walk. Continue along the path, which begins to descend and soon leads to a fork in the path, where you continue to the right in the direction of Šumik. After a further short descent, the path leads us to a forest road, which we follow to the left. After about 15 minutes of gentle ascent along the road, the signs direct us to the right on a footpath which soon leads us out of the forest to a larger clearing where we see the Obrolovo forestry cottage.
After the cottage, the path goes back into the forest, where it mostly descends slightly on a sometimes poorly visible path, but as the markings are frequent enough, there are no major problems with orientation. The path, however, leads us after a while to a worse road, which descends to a crossroads, where we continue to the right. Follow this road, which has a few more small crossroads, to the hut at Šumik.

On the way: Taborišče pohorskega bataljona (1210m), Gozdarska koča Obrolovo (1220m)

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