Rebrca / Rechberg - Eisenkappler Hutte (via Rokov vrh and Počula)

Access to the starting point:
a) Take the Border crossing Ljubelj road into Austria, then turn right at Podljubelj / Unterloibl in the direction of the Hofer store. When you arrive in Borovlje / Ferlach, turn left at the junction a little after the railway line (there is a Eurospar shop to the right of the junction), and at the next junction, after a few 100 metres, turn right in the direction of Železna Kaple / Bad Eisenkappel. Towards Železna Kapla, drive to Jeriše / Jerischach, and after Jerischach, turn right at the crossroads towards Podkraj / Unterort (left Goritschach). At the small crossroads in the middle of Podkraj, continue left, and then start climbing up to a small pass, at which there is a crossroads and a chapel. Continue straight on here for a short distance and you will arrive in the village of Rebrca / Rechberg, where you will park in a parking lot next to a grassy football pitch.
b) Cross the Border crossing Jezerski vrh into Austria, then after Železna Kaplo turn slightly left onto the road towards Rebrca / Rechberg. Follow the road quickly up to the village and turn left at the crossroads in the middle of the village. Park in the parking lot next to the football field.
c) Drive into Podjuna, then follow the signs for Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. After Miklavčevo / Miklauzhof, leave the road towards Železna Kapla and turn right towards Klagenfurt / Klagenfurt and Borovlje / Ferlach. Continue along the main road towards Borovlje, but we don't follow it for long, as the signs for Podkraj / Unterort direct us left onto a slightly narrower road. At a small crossroads in the middle of Podkraj, continue left and then start climbing up to a small pass with a crossroads and a chapel. Continue straight ahead for a short distance and you will arrive in the village of Rebrca / Rechberg, where you will park in a parking lot next to a grassy football pitch.

Path description:
At the starting point, the signs for Rokov vrh direct you to a side road, which leads quickly up to the church and cemetery in Rebrca. Go around both on the left and then, after the shed, continue on the footpath, which mostly continues through the forest. After a few minutes of mostly moderate ascent, the path splits, and we take the upper right path (straight Setzhube). There are a few minutes of steep ascent, and the path flattens out when we reach cart track, after which we continue to the crossroads without any major changes in altitude.
From the crossroads go right, initially slightly downhill, and then follow cart track, which crosses the slopes to the right. When the cart track ends, continue along the steeper mountain path again, which is joined just below the summit by the path past the Bukovnik homestead.
Go right here and in a few steps you will reach the panoramic Rokov vrh.
From the top, return to the last crossroads, then continue straight ahead to the nearby forest road. From the road, bear right for a short distance and then continue parallel to the road for a short distance. A little further on, return to the road, then from the crossroads continue straight on to a minor road, then turn slightly right onto a footpath which continues along the ridge. At first walk parallel to the road, then start to descend steeply. At a lower level, you reach a small pass where the path changes to the left side of a steep slope nearby. Cross the steep slope and then reach a minor road, which you follow to a marked crossroads by an old chapel, where the path past Bukovnik joins.
Continue slightly right (Setzhube on the left, Bukovnik on the right) in the direction of the old markers for Hochobir and the Old Mountain. The trail, which has been relatively easy to follow so far, becomes quite overgrown and difficult to follow in parts. The trail is at first still sloping and leads past an abandoned mine, but then it starts to climb and crosses the forest road several times. During the ascent, we are partly helped by mostly old, partly faded markings, but otherwise orientation is quite difficult due to the overgrowth in several parts. Higher along the road we see a yellow mountain sign pointing back towards the village of Rebrca. It is here that the route of the marked trail is slightly changed compared to most Slovenian maps (a newer version of the trail is drawn on Bergfex. si). Continue straight on, as the marked path used to go (slightly to the right is the newer path that bypasses Stockhube) and also from the nearby crossroads go straight on, where you will reach Stockhuba with beautiful views of Hochobir and the surrounding mountains. After an older cottage, the path leads past a cross, then on along the overgrown cart track, where traces of markings are visible (the markings are now obliterated). A little further on, we reach a wider dirt road, where the old marked trail continues slightly to the right, and we continue slightly to the left and start descending along the road. As we descend the road, the path leads us past another entrance to the former lead mine at Obirje, and then around a left turn we join the marked path through Kunetov graben / Kunetgraben.
Continue slightly to the right and start climbing again. Follow the road up to a small pass, then continue right into the forest on the marked footpath towards Obirje. Continue up the overgrown cart track, and higher up through a longer lane of raspberry bushes. When the raspberry bushes end, the path leads first into the woods, and a few metres higher on to a dirt road, which you follow briefly to the right, then climb parallel to the road. The path, which is no longer overgrown, then leads us to the edge of mountain pasture Zgornja Šefnarca, where we walk along the pasture fence, and then reach the next road. Cross the road and follow cart track in the direction Eisenkappler Hutte / Eisenkappler Hütte. Cart track climbs crosswise to the saddle Počula / Potschulasattel, where there is a marked crossroads and a few steps to the right a larger chapel.
Continue along the marked path towards Obirje, first crossing a forest road, and higher up, as you emerge from the forest, a pasture fence. The path loses a bit after the pasture, but the direction of ascent remains roughly the same, and there are some markings along the way, so there are no major problems with orientation in this part of the trail. Here the path also lies down, and when the path enters the forest, cart track appears, following which you descend to the forest road near Kapelška hut. Cross the road and walk a few 10 steps further down to the mountain hut. The description and figures refer to the situation in 2017 (August and September).

On the way: Rokov vrh / Rochusberg (880m), Setzhube (805m), Počula (1461m)

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