Bistriški jarek (border crossing Muta) - Bivak Piramida

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Dravograd, and then we continue driving towards Maribor. After the road sign 8.0 km we need to pay attention, because we will a little behind the bus stop and a pedestrian crossing, turn left in a settlement Gortina (turn off from the main road isn't marked). Immediately, when we leave the main road we get to the settlement Gortina, and then we drive in the direction of Muta, we turn left at the marked crossroad, where we notice signs for Bistriški jarek. The road then quickly brings us in Bistriški jarek, through which we are gently ascending. Soon after the road sign 6 km we come to a smaller crossroad, where before the bridge we park on an appropriate place.
B) First, we drive to Maribor, and then we follow the signs for Dravograd. When we already cross the river Mučka Bistrica, a little after the store Tuš we drive right in the direction of the settlement Muta 1. The path ahead brings us in Muta, where on a crossroads we follow priority road, from a little bigger crossroad we go left, so that we are further driving towards Gortina. A little after the settlement Muta ends, from marked crossroad we drive right in the direction of Bistriški jarek. The road then quickly brings us in Bistriški jarek, through which we are gently ascending. Soon after the road sign 6 km we come to a smaller crossroad, where before the bridge we park on an appropriate place.

Path description:
From the starting point by the bridge we cross the river Mučka Bistrica, and then right behind the bridge we continue left, where at first we walk by the river. Before the abandoned Lipnik mill path turns right and starts ascending on a cart track. Higher, we reach pastures of the nearby farm and a well-marked cart track brings us to the farm Lipnik, which we bypass on the right side. Behind the house, we step on a macadam road which we follow to the right, at the nearby crossroad we go sharply left towards Pernice. The path ahead leads us on a wider macadam road, where we also go past separate farms and at the crossroads, we follow the blazes. With nice views then we reach the marked crossing, where signs for Pernice point us slightly right on a cart track which ascends diagonally and higher turns right. After the crossing of a meadow path for some time runs by the edge of the forest, after that, when already turns left, passes into the forest. We continue through the forest, higher twice in a row we cross a road, after a shorter diagonal ascent to the right we also cross a well.
Before the homestead Porčnik path turns left and then it ascends to a little poorly marked crossing on Razpotnik, where we continue on the left cart track. Cart track returns into the forest and it brings us to the sign for altitude 1000 meters.
Cart track here flattens and at the church of St Simon and Judah Tadej brings us to an asphalt road, on which past NOB monument we continue to the inscription box, which is located at the former mountain hut Planinsko zavetišče pri Knezu on Pernice.
After the former mountain hut we get to a crossroad and a crossing, and we continue on a macadam road in the direction of Ojstrica (right path on Košenjak past St Urban). The road on which we continue, on the right side bypasses the mountain hut Dom krajanov Pernice and sports field, further leads us through the forest and past separate farms, from which on grassy slopes a nice view opens up. At the crossings, we continue straight in the direction of Ojstrica or Pot orjaških lip (path of colossal lime trees), after a time the path leads us also past a chapel and NOB monument.
On first crossroad after the farm Lunčko, to which we get to after approximately 15 minutes of walking from the mentioned farm (farm Lunčko is located next to the chapel and NOB monument), forest road towards St Urban and farm Bogatec branches off to the right, from here we continue on a wider macadam road which leads towards Ojstrica. Next follows crossing of the Potoški graben, and then before the farm Lonhtar we continue right on a marked path towards Košenjak.
The path ahead leads us on a wider newer cart track, on which we are quite steep ascending, and then we go left on a marked path, and which higher returns on a wider cart track. Next follow few crossings, where we follow the blazes, and then through a little thinner forest we reach the hunting cottage Bivak Piramida.
Bistriški jarek - Pernice 1:50, Pernice - Bivak Piramida 2:20. Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (November).

On the way: Sv. Simon in Juda Tadej (Pernice) (1059m)

Trip can be extended to: Huhnerkogel/Košenjak ( 40 min)