Rebrca / Rechberg - Eisenkappler Hutte (via Bukovnik and over Počula)

Access to starting point:
A) Over the border crossing Ljubelj we drive to Austria, and then in the settlement Podljubelj / Unterloibl we turn right in the direction of store Hofer. When we get to Borovlje / Ferlach, at the crossroad a little behind the railway track we turn left (right from the crossroad there is store Eurospar), and at the next crossroad after few 100 meters right in the direction of Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. Towards Železna Kapla we drive to the settlement Jeriše / Jerischach, and after the settlement at the crossroad we turn right in the direction of the settlement Podkraj / Unterort (left Goriče Goritschach). At the smaller crossroad in the middle of Podkraj we continue left and then we start ascending to a smaller saddle, by which there are a crossroad and chapel. We park on an appropriate place behind the chapel.
B) Over the border crossing Jezerski vrh we drive to Austria, and after Železna Kapla we continue slightly left on the road in the direction of village Rebrca / Rechberg. On the road, we then quickly ascend into the mentioned village, at the crossroad in the middle of the village we continue left. The road on which we continue leads us towards the settlement Podkraj / Unterort, and then still before the road starts descending towards the mentioned settlement, we get to the chapel, in front of which we park on an appropriate place by the road.
C) We drive into Podjuna, and then we follow the signs for Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. After the settlement Miklavčevo / Miklauzhof, we leave the road towards Železna Kapla and we continue right in the direction towards Celovec / Klagenfurt and Borovlje / Ferlach. Further, we drive on the main road towards Borovlje, and there we don't drive long, because signs for Podkraj / Unterort point us to the left on a little narrower road. At the smaller crossroad in the middle of Podkraj we continue left and then we start ascending to a smaller saddle, by which there are a crossroad and chapel. We park on an appropriate place behind the chapel.

Path description:
From the crossroad at the chapel, we go on the road in the direction of the settlement Suha / Zauchen, or house numbers 16,17,18, 50, 54, 63 and 69, and by the crossroad there are also signs for Obir. The road at first leads through the forest and then it brings us out of the forest, and we follow the road practically to its end at homestead Bukovnik / Bukownik. Behind the last house, we continue over a grazing fence, and then the cart track brings us into the forest. Through the forest, we are ascending on a cart track (cart track has higher few poorly marked shortcuts), and we walk there to the saddle between Rokov vrh / Rochus Berg on the left and Stara gora / Altberg on the right.
From the saddle, where there is an older chapel we continue right (left Rokov vrh, straight Setzhube) in the direction of Obir and Stara gora (signs for the mentioned mountains are very old).
And until now still relatively easy to follow path further becomes quite overgrown and on parts hard to follow. The path is at first still gentle and leads us past the abandoned mine, and then it starts ascending and several times crosses a forest road. During the ascent, we get some help from mostly old, partly already faded blazes, otherwise the orientation because of the overgrowth in several parts is quite difficult. Higher by the road we notice yellow mountain signpost, which is pointing back towards the village Rebrca. Just on this part the course of a marked path is changed a little regarding the most of Slovenian maps.
We continue straight, as once run the marked path (slightly right - new path, which bypasses Stockhube) and also from the nearby crossroad we go straight, where with nice views on Ojstrc and surrounding mountains we get to Stockhube. After an older cottage the path leads also past a cross, and then we continue on an overgrown cart track, where there are visible traces of the blazes (blazes are today blurred). A little further, we reach a wider macadam road, where the old marked path went slightly right, and we continue slightly left and on the road we start descending. During the descent on the road the path leads us past another entrance into the former lead mine on Obir, and then after the left turn we join the marked path through Kunetov graben / Kunetgraben.
We continue slightly right and we again start ascending. We ascend on the road to a smaller saddle, and then we continue right into the forest on a marked footpath in the direction of Obir. Further, we are ascending on an overgrown cart track, and higher through a longer lane of raspberry bushes. When the raspberry bushes end, the path at first brings us into the forest, and few meters higher also on a macadam road which really short time we follow to the right, and then we are ascending parallel with the road. Further not overgrown path then brings us by the edge of the mountain pasture Zgornja Šefnarca, where we walk by the grazing fence, and then we reach the next road. The road we only cross and we continue on a cart track in the direction of Kapelška koča / Eisenkappler Hütte. Cart track ascends diagonally to the saddle Počula / Potschulasattel, where there is a marked crossing and few steps to the right also a larger chapel.
We continue on a marked path in the direction of Obir, where we at first cross the forest road, higher, when we step out of the forest also a grazing fence. Through the pasture the footpath vanishes a little, but direction of ascent stays approximately the same, and by the path, there are also some blazes, so that with orientation on this part there aren't any bigger problems. Here the path also flattens, and when the path passes into the forest, the cart track appears, on which we descend to a forest road near the mountain hut Kapelška koča. We cross the road and in few 10 strides of additional walking, we descend to the mountain hut.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2017 (August).

On the way: Setzhube (805m), Stockhube (1185m), Počula (1461m)