Prelaz Vrhe - Rudijev dom na Donački gori

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.
During the crossing we go past the hunting observatory, and behind it on the left side we bypass indistinct Joški vrh. The cart track few minutes ahead brings us to a macadam road which we follow slightly upwards.
Still before the mountain hut the normal path on Donačka gora branches off to the left, and from the right joins also a marked path from Stoperce, and after the crossing in few 10 strides we get to the mountain hut Rudijev dom.