Ruta - Lobnikov vrh (circular path)

Access to the starting point:
a) By car from Maribor in the direction of Dravograd. Approximately 20 km from Maribor, cross the river Drava in the direction of Lovrenec na Pohorju. After 200 metres turn left, over a stone bridge, across the Radoljna stream. Continue on the asphalt road through the village to the Ruta railway station, where you park.
b) First drive to Dravograd, then continue to Maribor. A few kilometres after Ožbalt, leave the main road and turn right towards Lovrenec na Pohorju. Turn left just after the bridge over the Drava River and park near the Ruta railway station.
c) The starting point can also be reached by train from Maribor or Dravograd.

Path description:
A pleasant circular walking trail above the Drava River, following the old hunting trails, which takes you through Štiblerjev vrh to Lobnikov vrh. It is most beautiful in early spring and late autumn, when views of the Drava Valley open up.
The trail starts at the Ruta railway station, where you follow the railway line for about 200 metres in the direction of Fala. At the ruins (quarry), you start climbing uphill on an old hunting track to the right. At a height of about 400 m, the gently sloping path crosses the western slopes below Štibler's Peak. After about half an hour's walk, the path is seemingly blocked by a thirty-metre high granite wall. Continue slightly downhill, right next to the wall, and then the path climbs gently up to the Predla ridge again. Our path soon joins the slightly wider path leading from Fala. Turn right along it. Now we just more or less follow the ridge, which slopes down a little higher up. The path then leads us along Štiblerjev vrh (648 m, GPS N46 34 237' E015 26. 882' stone cairn at the top), to a small saddle (view towards Rušy) just in front of Lobnik's Peak. At the fork in the track, follow the narrower path to the right. After a few metres, turn left to reach the highest point of the trail. On the vegetated summit there is only a salt house for game.
Descent:
From Lobnikov vrh continue along the path in a south-westerly direction. The trail follows the ridge in a gentle descent. In a few minutes we reach a small saddle from which we continue straight into a denser spruce forest. Soon, a track crosses the path from the left, leading over the ridge to the other side of the slope. We descend to the left along the above-mentioned cart track. Soon we emerge from the forest onto the southern grassy slopes of Lobnik Peak. Cross the meadows below the power lines and keep slightly to the right of cart track. The path leads us across the south-western forest slopes back to the valley of the Radoljna river and we are soon at the starting point.

On the way: Štiblerjev vrh (648m)

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