Bad Eisenkappel - Topitza (via Ojstra)
Starting point: Bad Eisenkappel (550 m)
Path name: via Ojstra
Time of walking: 3 h 45 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 1099 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1460 m
Map: Koroška 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
Over the border crossing Jezersko we come in Železna Kapla. We can park next to garbage dump opposite the store BILLA - when we leave old part of the town, the road is slightly turning to the left. And immediately after the end of the turn there is a smaller T crossroad (right is cemetery, straight and left we see gas station Agip), where we turn left on a narrow street and after 200 meters we turn right on a sand space, where there are recycling containers.
Path description:
On a narrow road we return on the main and we cross it on the pedestrian crossing. We continue left few steps and then right on the road uphill. First steepness brings us above the cemetery. There it flattens and past apartment complex we come to the next crossroad. We again walk a steep road to the left. At the turn higher we can cut the road on a grassy path "Berghof Brunner".
Then again on asphalt to a turn, where at the crossing signpost points us on the upper macadam road. We walk on the road zig-zags and then a little higher we go in the forest. The path to the ridge is in parts steep but it soon gets more gentle. We get closer to a macadam road (on which we were walking at the beginning) to its end. A little further, we cross a clearing. And in the forest, we pass one more, whereupon we are again on the road. We choose the bottom one and we are in front a large clearing with a cottage and hunting observatory. We go past both on the other end and there we continue towards the top of the ridge to the left. We came on a saddle Prevernikovo sedlo.
The path leads us right on a cart track and then on the path on the left side of the ridge. We slowly ascend on a ridge, whereupon we again start steeply ascending. On the end of this ascent we are on the summit of Ojstra.
From the top of Ojstra we follow the sign Wögelhof, Bad Eisenkappel, the path 671. We descend on the steepness in the arms of the forest. Lower, we come on a series of cart tracks and connecting paths, which are slowly gaining the altitude. Here somewhere on the signposts name Topitza, 641 starts showing up. Because of the woodcutting in some parts there are nice views on surrounding hills.
From the path, we come on a longer clearing, which ends with the cottage on the ridge shoulder. We continue a little further on a flat into the forest and past a signpost we ascend to the summit of Topica.
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