Globasnitz - Petzen (Kordeschkopf) (Peca (Kordeževa glava))

Access to the starting point:
a) Cross Border crossing Jezerski vrh into Austria, then after about 6 km after Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel turn right towards Velikowiec / Völkermarkt. Follow the main road towards Velikowiec for 2 km, then turn right again, this time towards Pliberk / Bleiburg. Continue along the valley of the Podjuna River, and then the signs for Globasnitz / Globasnitz direct you to the right onto a local road, which takes you 2 km further into the centre of the village, where you park in a large parking lot. From Border crossing Jezerski vrh to the starting point is approximately 33 km.
b) From Dravograd or Slovenj Gradec, drive to Ravne na Koroškem, then continue in the direction of Border crossing Holmec. Once in Austria, first drive towards Pliberk / Bleiburg, then follow the signs for Globasnica / Globasnitz. After about 13 km from Border crossing Holmec, we arrive in Globasnitz, where we park in a large parking lot near the local church.

Path description:
From the large parking lot in Globasnica, continue towards the end of the village, where you will soon join the "main" road, which leads almost imperceptibly up towards the neighbouring village. When you reach Podroje / Podrain, continue for a short distance along the road leading to Podpeca / Koprein Petzen, and then signs with the words "Wandersteg-Petzen" and "Wackendorfer Alm" direct you left onto a narrower road, which quickly leads you to the "last" house in the village.
Leave the road at the house and continue the ascent on the grassy cart track, which quickly turns into lane of a forest. After a gentle climb through the forest, you reach a belt of scrub and ferns, through which you climb on a normally well-mown path. A little higher up, it joins a dirt road, follow it to the right and follow it to a slight left turn, in the middle of which a marked footpath branches off to the right towards Wackendorfer Alm / Wackendorfer Alm. After a short climb, cross a fainter forest road, then the path enters a dense forest through which it begins to climb steeply. A long and relatively steep trail follows, most of the time leading through the dense forest, only occasionally opening up some views towards the neighbouring Topitza, Junska Gora and Obir. Higher up, we touch a mountain road, which we immediately leave and continue our ascent to the sharp right on a footpath that continues to climb through the forest. Next, cross a short lookout slope, which opens up to a beautiful view of Golica and the Podjuna valley. The path then returns to the forest and then joins the road already mentioned above. Continue along the road for about 50 to 100 m, and then pass a ramp that prevents further travel to reach Wackendorfer Alm.
You can also reach Veska mountain pasture by the mountain road from Podgora / Untrebergen (toll €6, July 2011). This shortens the journey by about 3 hours.
From mountain pasture, follow the initially less visible path, which continues between the chapel and the hut. The path climbs moderately at first, then transitions and crosses the slope to the left. The path then widens and climbs to a nearby dirt road, which is followed to the right. Walk along the road for a short distance and then signs point you slightly right onto a footpath that climbs parallel to the road. The waymarked path returns to the track just where it ends. Continue along the right side of the water trough and for a short time continue along the bottom of the undistinguished valley, then the path turns left and climbs crosswise up a grassy slope where the path becomes transiently lost. Once on the grassy slope, continue right and begin a steep climb. Higher up, the track flattens out and leads into the dwarf pines zone. The trail continues past a small wooden "shelter" and then starts to climb slightly steeper towards the top of the Wackendorfer Spitze / Wackendorfer spitze, which is reached after a few minutes of further walking.
From Wackendorfer Spitze we continue along a ridge with a view, after which, with a few short descents and ascents, we reach a marked crossroads, where the path from Podpeca / Koprein Petzen joins from the right.
Continue straight ahead and, with fine views of the eastern Karawanks and Kamnik Savinja Alps, reach the top of Feistritzer Spitze in just over 10 minutes.
From Bistriška Špica, continue along the marked trail, which starts descending along the ridge (direction southeast). After a short descent, the trail passes between dwarf pines, which gradually starts climbing towards one of the peaks in the Peka mountain range (unnamed on the maps). From the summit, the trail descends a little and leads to a place where you reach the state border. The ascent continues along and along the border ridge, following a path which leads us in a moderate ascent over a pleasant grassy slope to Končnikov vrh.
From Končnikov vrh, continue along the marked trail, which begins to descend towards Knips saddle. After a few minutes of descending, the path from the Peca ski resort joins us from the left, and we continue slightly right along the path, which quickly leads us to the information boards at Knipsov saddle.
From the saddle, continue straight on in the direction of Peca and the home at Peca (to the right, the Topela valley) along a path that first ascends gently and then descends to the saddle between Velika glava and Kordeževa glava (Kordeževa glava). From this saddle, the trail starts to climb crosswise towards the highest peak of Peć, which is reached after about 15 minutes of further walking.

On the way: Wackendorfer Alm (1568m), Wackendorfer Spitze (2074m), Feistritzer Spitze (2113m), Končnikov vrh (2109m), Knipsovo sedlo (2012m)

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