Leše - Koča na Naravskih ledinah (via Kot pri Prevaljah)
Starting point: Leše (537 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.5304°N 14.9034°E
Path name: via Kot pri Prevaljah
Time of walking: 2 h 40 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 535 m
Altitude difference (by path): 615 m
Map: Koroška 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From Mežica, border crossing Holmec or Ravne na Koroškem we drive on Prevalje, from there we continue driving towards the settlement Leše. When we get to Leše we continue sharply left in the direction of Uršlja gora, and then we park on a parking lot near primary school.
Path description:
From the starting point, we continue in the direction of Uršlja gora, Naravske ledine and KPP (path Koroška planinska pot) and at first, we walk on an asphalt road which leads us past few houses. From the asphalt road, we soon go right on a macadam road in the direction of Uršlja gora and Pačnik and Streh. At the last house, we go left on a cart track which starts ascending through a panoramic meadow. Higher, we reach the other macadam road which we follow to the left, and there we walk past individual homesteads, at the crossroads we follow the signs for KPP or Naravske ledine.
At the farm Pečnik we continue straight, and at the next farm Ravnjak, we go slightly right on a marked cart track. Cart track at first crosses a panoramic meadow, and when passes into the forest, it starts diagonally descending and soon reaches a macadam road which we follow upwards. The road soon turns left, where crosses the stream Barbarski graben, where on the left we notice ranč H₂O, and few steps ahead on the right turn-off of a marked path. We continue on a marked cart track which higher returns on the road and makes the left hairpin turn. After hairpin turn path leads through steep and panoramic slopes, from which a nice view opens up towards Košenjak and Golica. The road then leads us also past the climbing area Vranske peči and turn-off of the path to bivouac Suška bajta, and then soon after the crossing of torrent we leave it and we continue on a marked path. Next follows an ascent through the forest, where we cross a smaller cart track, and when we for second time reach the cart track, we follow it to the left. Slope here flattens and after the crossing of a grazing fence we pass on a pasture, where the footpath starts vanishing, and we continue by the left edge of the forest. After the hunting observatory path turns slightly left and it ascends to Obretanovo, where there are situated some buildings, among other things also cottage Taborniški dom roda koroških jeklarjev Obretanovo.
We continue on the road which behind the gate brings us to a marked crossing, and we continue the second path right, on the path which is ascending and not descending, and next to it we notice a caption Godec. The path ahead leads us without large ascents and descents, and it quickly brings us to the road, where the path splits, and the crossing isn't specifically marked.
We continue right on the forest road (straight on an ascending cart track farm Godec and Uršlja gora over Kozji hrbet), from which signs for Naravske ledine soon point us to the left upwards on a footpath, where we then follow the blazes. When we walk on a cart track which crosses slopes, still before its end we have to continue right downwards and on the mountain path we then cross the slopes. Next follows a short crossing of even steeper slopes, and then on stairs made of logs we descend back on the forest road (to here we can walk also on the forest road). The road, from which for some time a view opens up a little, we soon leave again and we continue left on the path which over a smaller hill "cuts" a little longer road turn.
Right before we return on the road which we further only cross, from the left joins also a marked path from Ravne na Koroškem. On the other side of the road, we short time continue through the forest, then the path leads us by the lower part of a meadow, where we join the path from Žerjav.
From the crossing, we still continue by the right edge of a meadow, and then after 5 minutes of a moderate ascent we walk to Koča na Naravskih ledinah.
On the way: Kot pri Prevaljah (688m), Taborniški dom roda koroških jeklarjev Obretanovo (1040m)
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