Starting point: Log (375 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.53435°N 15.5436°E
Time of walking: 2 h 40 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 711 m
Altitude difference (by path): 785 m
Map: Pohorje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From the road Maribor - Ruše, in the settlement Bistrica ob Dravi we turn left (from the direction Ruše right) towards Log. Further, we drive through Log, and at the end of the settlement, at the crossroad of multiple roads, we park on an appropriate place by the bus stop.
We park the way we don't hinder the traffic and bus.
Path description:
From the starting point, we go on a slightly right road, by which there are trail blazes (left - road towards Pečke, right - part of the settlement Log). We are for a short time ascending on the road, and then before few houses we continue left into the forest, where we at first steeply ascend. Next follows a walk on a smaller ridge and then we step on the road, on which we continue few 10 strides, and then we go left into the forest, where the path continues. A little further, we once again cross the road, and then we start ascending steeper on an increasingly steep forested ridge. Higher, the path becomes very steep and on few minutes long section, mainly in wet it is also dangerous for slipping. Above the steepest part, the path gradually flattens and a little further brings us to a meadow, by the edge of which we continue. Follows few minutes of a moderate ascent and we get to the mountain hut Dom na Pečkah.
From the mountain hut Dom na Pečkah through a shorter panoramic part we ascend to the edge of the forest, where the path splits. We continue on the slightly left path in the direction of Mariborska koča and a lookout tower (slightly right path leads towards Ruška koča na Arehu), which passes into the forest. Through the forest, we are moderately to occasionally steeply ascending, and during the ascent, we cross few forest roads. Higher, we cross also few connecting ski tracks, and at all crossings we follow the signs for Mariborska koča (meanwhile twice the path towards the lookout tower branches off).
Higher, we reach the ridge and a macadam road and a crossing of multiple paths, or roads.
We continue straight, on the road in the direction of Mariborska koča (sharply left - lookout tower and hotel Bellevue, left road leads towards the fenced area with a radar tower, and to the right leads a marked path towards Ruška koča na Arehu) and on the road we start descending diagonally. A little lower we join also the path from Ruška koča, and a little ahead, when the road becomes asphalted we go from the road right downwards on a marked path, on which we quickly descend to Mariborska koča.
Log - Pečke 1:00, Pečke - Mariborska koča - 1:40.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in March, May and November 2022.
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