Bistriški jarek (Glasbeni dom) - Huhnerkogel/Košenjak (via Bivak Piramida)

Access to the starting point:
a) Drive to Dravograd, then continue to Maribor. After the 8. 0 km road marker, pay attention, because a little after the bus stop and the pedestrian crossing, you will turn left into the Gortina settlement (the exit from the main road is not marked). As soon as you leave the main road you will arrive in Gortina, and we then drive in the direction of Muta, turning left at the marked crossroads, where you will see the signs for Bistriški trench. The road then leads quickly into the Bistriški trench, through which you climb steeply. Park at the former POŠ Branik, now the Music Centre, which is the sign on the building, but otherwise the building is used for various activities.

b) First drive to Maribor, then follow the signs for Dravograd. Once you have crossed Mučka Bistrica, turn right a little after the Tuš store in the direction of Muta 1. The road leads to Muta, where you follow the priority road at the crossroads, and from a slightly larger crossroads you turn left, so that you continue towards Gortina. A little after the Muta settlement ends, turn right at the marked crossroads towards Bistriški trench. The road then quickly leads into the Bistriški trench, through which you climb steeply. Park at the former POŠ Branik, now the Music Centre, which is the sign on the building, but otherwise the building is used for various activities.

Path description:
From the marked parking lot, continue along the asphalt road, which quickly leads to a marked crossroads by the ecological chapel behind the sports ground.

Continue left towards Pernice (Sedelnik waterfall and St Jernej on the right), and immediately go slightly further left from the road to cart track. Follow cart track up to a nearby farm, where go left behind a house onto the marked cart track. Cart track first climbs cross-country to the left, then turns right, and after a bend, leave it and continue slightly right on a waymarked footpath which begins to climb steeply through the woods. At a higher level, cross the older cart track, and after a further short climb, join the slightly wider cart track, which is also the route out of the woods. The way ahead leads past a hunting observation post, then cross a wider macadam road and continue along the road leading to the nearby Abram homestead. Above the homestead, we again follow the cart track, and the path leads us to a beautifully decorated chapel, above which the path becomes slightly steeper. The way ahead leads us along the route of the power lines, and higher up we cross the wider road once more. The path continues past the Hribernik homestead, above which the path gradually turns into woodland. There is a few minutes' climb through the woods, and then we arrive at the pastures below the Church of St Simon and St Jude Thaddeus, where the path loses its way. Continue along the increasingly beautiful views to the church, where you go left and walk past the NOB memorial to the former mountain shelter at Knez, where there is a registration box.

After the former shelter, we reach a crossroads and a crossroads, and we continue along the macadam road in the direction of Ojstrica (right path to Huhnerkogel past St Urbana). The road we follow passes the Pernice Home and the sports ground on the right, and then leads us through the woods and past individual farms, which offer a beautiful view on the grassy hillsides. At the crossroads, we continue straight on towards Ojstrica or the Trail of the Giant Lime Trees, and after a while the trail leads us past the chapel and the National Liberation Monument.

At the first crossroads after the Lunčko farm, which is reached after about 15 minutes' walk from the farm (the Lunčko farm is located by the chapel and the NOB memorial), a forest road branches off to the right towards St. Urban and the Bogatec farm, and from here we continue along a wider macadam road leading towards Ojstrica. Then we cross the Potoški graben, and before the Lonhtar farm we continue to the right on the marked path towards Huhnerkogel.

The way forward leads us along the wider newer logging trail, which climbs quite steeply, then go left on the marked path, which returns to the wider logging trail higher up. There are a few more forks, where you follow the markings, and then through a slightly more sparse forest you reach the hunting lodge Bivak Piramida.
Above the hut, continue to the right and follow the gently sloping path which crosses the gently sloping slopes. While crossing the path, it leads past the Wolf Stone, which the stonecutter was hewing for a millstone, but was attacked by a wolf during the work, so the millstone was not finished. A little further on, we arrive at a marked crossroads where we join up with the trail that leads past St. Urban, and we continue to the left towards Huhnerkogel. We continue to climb along and along the state border for some time, and when the forest thins out further, we are joined on the left by a path that leads past the Doma na Košenjaku (Home on Košenjak).
Continue straight ahead and after a minute of further walking you will reach the top of Košenjak.
Bistriški jarek - Pernice 1:45, Pernice - Bivak Piramida 2:20, Bivak Piramida - Košenjak 0:40.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2018 (November).

On the way: Sv. Simon in Juda Tadej (Pernice) (1059m), Bivak Piramida (1395m)

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