Prelaz Vrhe - Joški vrh

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Maribor we go to the exit Dramlje and follow the road ahead in the direction of Šentjur, Rogaška Slatina and Rogatec. In Rogatec signs for Donačka gora point us to the left on a little narrower road which we then follow towards the settlement Žetale. On a smaller mountain pass, right at the spot, where municipality Rogatec ends, we will on the right side notice a little larger parking lot, where we park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we at first walk to the mountain pass, where we continue on the left ascending road in the direction of Donačka gora. After a short ascent, only few meters after the house with thatched roof, signs for Donačka gora point us to the right on a gently sloping cart track which after few steps goes into a short lane of a forest.
The cart track quickly comes out of the forest and then continues on a panoramic meadow. Higher, the path brings us to lonely homestead, past which leads the marked path. Only a little above the mentioned farm, we join a little wider cart track which we follow to the right (left - Sveti Jurij and church of St. Donat). Cart track, which is further ascending diagonally, mostly through the forest brings us to the next crossing, where the path towards Žetale branches off to the right.
Here we continue straight in the direction of the mountain hut Rudijev dom (left - Donačka gora) and we diagonally descend. During the diagonal descent we cross also the path Kupčinji Vrh - Donačka gora, and then we get to a crossing, where we reach a little wider cart track.
We continue slightly left (sharply right - Kupčinji Vrh and Žetale) in the direction of the mountain hut Rudijev dom and we cross the northern slopes of Donačka gora. When after some time, only a little after the hunting observatory we get to a smaller indistinct saddle, we go from the marked path to the right on an unmarked path, on which in two minutes of additional walking, we reach Joški vrh.