Spodnje Sleme - Obel kamen (Olševa)

Access to the starting point:
a) Drive to Luce, then continue on to the Logar Valley. In the village Solčava, before the bridge over the river Savinjek, leave the road towards the Logar valley and continue to the right in the direction of Podolševa and Črna na Koroškem. After a climb of about 5 km, you reach a crossroads where you turn right towards Črna na Koroškem. There is a few more mostly cross-country climbs and we arrive at the Spodnje Sleme pass, where we park.
b) Drive to Črna na Koroškem and then continue in the direction of Koprivna and Solčava. Continue along the valley of the Meži River for some time, then turn left towards Solčava and the Logarska dolina. Then climb up to the Spodnje Sleme pass, where you park.
c) Via Border crossing Pavličev Vrh, we drive into Slovenia and start descending towards Solčava. Shortly after the Majerhold Mountain Lodge, turn left towards the Podolševa and Solčava panoramic roads. On the panoramic road, pass the Church of the Holy Spirit, and a few kilometres further on, turn left in the direction of Črna na Koroškem. There is a few more mostly cross-country climbs and we arrive at the Spodnje Sleme pass, where we park.

Path description:
From the Spodnje Sleme pass, follow the marked trail towards Olševa, where you initially walk along a folded macadam road, which is soon joined by the trail from Koprivna (the trail past the Prodnik homestead). Continue along the left-hand side, passing Robnikov vrh (1392 m), which occasionally opens up a beautiful view towards Raduha.
At the unmarked Zgornje Sleme pass, we join a path on the right which leads past the Church of St James, and we follow the signs for Olševa. We pass a nearby pasture on the left, and above it we return to cart track, and from cart track we go left on a marked path which begins to climb steeply through the forest. There follows a longer, rather steep climb, on a path that climbs through the forest, and also leads past a water trough that dries up on dry days and past a natural cave. The trail flattens out when you reach the Lepi vrh ridge, but after a few minutes it starts climbing steeply again, this time towards the scenic Odeničný hřberje. When we reach the summit, we have a gently sloping path in front of us, which leads us along the Olševa ridge. At the Gladke peak, we are joined on the left by an abandoned path that starts at the homestead Zgornji Ošovnik in Podolševa, and after Visoko pečja there is some downhill to a marked crossroads, where we are joined on the right by a marked path from Zadnji travnik, or the Mountain Home on the Kumer farm.
Continue in the direction of Olševa, along the path, which again starts to climb, and during the ascent crosses some short, mainly wet slopes exposed to slipping. Higher up, the sparse forest ends and the increasingly scenic path leads us to the highest peak of Olševa within a few minutes of further walking.
From Govce we start descending along the scenic ridge, then the path from the ridge turns left downhill and quickly leads us to a marked crossroads. Continue right towards Obel kamen (straight down Potočka zijalka and Podolševa), where you first cross the slopes to the left and then start climbing steeply. The last part of the climb before reaching the ridge is technically more difficult and not guarded. Above the short, difficult part, you reach a scenic ridge, along and over which you continue until you reach Obel Kamen, which you can identify by the boundary stone XXII 1. From the top, you can continue to the cross about 10 minutes away, where there is also a registration box.
Spodnje Sleme - Zgornje Sleme 0:25, Zgornje Sleme - Lepi vrh 1:00, Lepi vrh - Odenični hriber 0:40, Odenični hriber - Visoka peč crossroads 0:25, Visoka peč crossroads - Govca 0:30, Govca - Obel kamen 0:30.
Description and figures refer to the situation in 2018 (July and August).

On the way: Zgornje Sleme (1310m), Lepi vrh (1619m), Odenični hriber (1863m), Gladki vrh (1850m), Visoka peč (1814m), Govca (Olševa) (1929m)

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