Veliko Tinje - Veliki vrh (on Pohorje)

Access to the starting point:
Drive to the centre of Slovenska Bistrica, where you turn off at the traffic lights in the direction of the health centre and continue along Partizanska cesta. Then drive through the town, continuing straight on, on the outskirts of the town, and at the industrial zone turn onto the road towards Tinje, Sveti Trem kralji and Black Lake. The asphalt road is slightly narrower and begins to climb, initially leading past the Hunting Hut of the Gams pizzeria, then higher up through the Visole settlement, and a few kilometres higher up to Zgornje Tinje, where you turn left and park on the outskirts of the settlement at the Home of the Homeowners and the Tinje Fire House.

Path description:
From the starting point, walk to the church, where the first markings appear, and we climb the stairs to the church, which we pass on the left. After the church, cross the access road and continue along the hedge, then cross the meadow back to the tarmac road, which ascends to an unmarked crossroads. From the crossroads, continue along the upper right-hand road, and you will see a waymark on the right. A little further on you reach a few more houses, where you go right to cart track, which rises crosswise above the road. Follow the signs through the forest at the crossroads, and a few minutes higher up, leave the forest and continue climbing along the path that continues along the edge of the forest. Higher up, the path turns right and returns to the forest, through which you climb to an asphalt road, which you reach at a small crossroads.
Continue left up (straight up a side road to reach St Urho's Church, right down to return to Veliko Tinje.
Climb up the asphalt road for a few minutes, then opposite the Repnik homestead (the homestead is located in the small hamlet of Rep), by the memorial, continue into the woods, through which you first climb, then the trail flattens out and mostly in a gentle ascent crosses the slopes to the left, where you get quite close to the road. A little further on, we leave the forest and continue to the right, initially along the edge of the forest, and at a small pass, an unmarked path joins us from the right, leading past the Church of St Urho.
Go slightly to the left here, crossing the lane of the forest, and leave the forest at the hunting observation post. The path ahead takes us along the gently sloping cart track, which leads us through the forest to Planina pod Šumikom, where we cross the asphalt road leading to St. Three Kings.
Cross the main road and continue along the side road, which leads past the chapel to the Škrinjar homestead, which is bypassed on the underside, and before the next homestead, Mlakar, the signs direct us right into the forest. A slightly steeper climb through the forest follows, where we follow the markings, and when the path is laid, we are joined on the right by a marked path past Močnik.
Continue straight ahead, followed by a few minutes of gentle to moderate climbing, and then you will reach the Hotel Jakec, above which is the Church of St. Three Kings.
From the Church of the Three Kings, continue in the direction of the Black Lake and the Urška Trail, where you will quickly reach the edge of the nearby ski slope of the RTC Jakec - Trije kralji ski resort. The way forward initially takes you along the edge of the forest, just a few metres away from the ski slope, and higher up you cross the ski slope to the right (during ski slope opening hours, you cross the ski slope above the ski lift). On the other side of the ski slope, the path goes slightly to the right and leads under the reservoir.
A little beyond the lake, we reach the connecting ski slope, which we continue to climb (during ski slope opening hours, we walk along the leftmost edge of the ski slope), and when we reach the second ski slope a few minutes higher up, where the marked path to the Black Lake crosses the ski slope, we continue along the left edge, where there are also signs for the Urška Trail. A few minutes of steeper climbing follows and, with increasingly beautiful views, we reach a bench on the Big Peak, from where we have a beautiful view of Pohorje and the valley.
From here you can continue another 10 m into the forest, where the highest point of the peak is located.
Veliko Tinje - Sveti Trije kralji 2:00, Sveti Trije kralji - Veliki vrh 0:30.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in January 2022.

On the way: Sveti Trije kralji (1181m)

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