Rebrca / Rechberg - Eisenkappler Hutte (via Rokov vrh and 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. Here we continue straight and only a little further we get to the settlement Rebrca / Rechberg, where we park on a parking lot by the football field.
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. We park on a parking lot by the football field.
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. Here we continue straight and only a little further we get to the settlement Rebrca / Rechberg, where we park on a parking lot by the football field.

Path description:
At the starting point signs for Rokov vrh / Rochusberg point us on the side road, on which we quickly ascend to the church and cemetery in Rebrca. We both bypass on the left side, and after the shed we continue on a footpath which mostly continues through the forest. After few minutes mostly of a moderate ascent, the path splits and we choose the upper right path (straight Setzhube). Next follows few minutes of a steep ascent and the path flattens, when we reach the cart track, and there without large changes in altitude we continue to a crossing.
From the crossing, we go right, at first slightly downwards, and then we walk on a cart track which crosses slopes towards the right. When the cart track ends, we continue on again steeper mountain path, which a little below the summit joins also the path past the homestead Bukovnik.
Here we go right and in few steps we reach panoramic Rokov vrh.
From the top, we return to the last crossing, and then we continue straight to the near forest road. From the road, we soon go right, after that for a short time, we continue parallel with the road. A little further, we return on the road, after that from the crossroad we continue straight on a worse road, and from there we then go slightly right on a footpath which continues on a ridge. We at first walk parallel with the road, and then we start steeply descending. Lower, we reach a small saddle, where the path passes on the left side of the nearby steep slope. Next follows traversing of a steep slope, and then we reach a worse road which we follow to a marked crossing by an old chapel, where the path past Bukovnik joins.
We continue slightly right (left Setzhube, right Bukovnik) in the direction of old signs for Ojstrc and Stara gora. 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 and September).

On the way: Rokov vrh / Rochusberg (880m), Setzhube (805m), Počula (1461m)