Bistriški jarek (Glasbeni dom) - Huhnerkogel/Košenjak (via Bivak Piramida)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Dravograd, and then we continue driving towards Maribor. After the road sign 8.0 km we need to pay attention, because we will a little behind the bus stop and a pedestrian crossing, turn left in a settlement Gortina (turn off from the main road isn't marked). Immediately, when we leave the main road we get to the settlement Gortina, and then we drive in the direction of Muta, we turn left at the marked crossroad, where we notice signs for Bistriški jarek. The road then quickly brings us in Bistriški jarek, through which we are gently ascending. We park by the former POŠ Branik, today Glasbeni dom, that is the caption on the building, otherwise the building is used for various activities.
B) First, we drive to Maribor, and then we follow the signs for Dravograd. When we already cross the river Mučka Bistrica, a little after the store Tuš we drive right in the direction of the settlement Muta 1. The path ahead brings us in Muta, where on a crossroads we follow priority road, from a little bigger crossroad we go left, so that we are further driving towards Gortina. A little after the settlement Muta ends, from marked crossroad we drive right in the direction of Bistriški jarek. The road then quickly brings us in Bistriški jarek, through which we are gently ascending. We park by the former POŠ Branik, today Glasbeni dom, that is the caption on the building, otherwise the building is used for various activities.

Path description:
From the marked parking lot, we continue on the asphalt road which behind the sports field quickly brings us to a marked crossing by the ecological chapel.
We continue left towards Pernice (right Sedelnik waterfall and St. Jernej), from the road we go immediately a little more left on a cart track. On the cart track, we ascend to the near farm, where we go behind the house left on a marked cart track. Cart track is at first ascending diagonally towards the left and then turns right, and after the turn we leave it and we continue slightly right on a marked footpath which starts steeply ascending through the forest. Higher, we also cross an older cart track, after a further shorter ascent we join a little wider cart track, on which we also come out of the forest. The path ahead leads us past the hunting observatory, and then we cross a wider macadam road and we continue on the road which leads to the near homestead Abram. Above the homestead, we again continue on a cart track, and the path brings us to nicely settled chapel, above which the path for some time becomes a little steeper. The path ahead leads us by the route of a power line, and higher we once again cross a wider road. Further, the path leads us also past the homestead Hribernik, above which the path gradually passes into the forest. Next follows few minutes of ascent through the forest and then we get to pastures below the church of St. Simon and Judah Tadej, where the footpath for some time vanishes. We continue with increasingly beautiful views to the church, where we go left and past NOB monument we walk to the former mountain hut Planinsko zavetišče pri Knezu, where there is an inscription box.
After the former mountain hut we get to a crossroad and a crossing, and we continue on a macadam road in the direction of Ojstrica (right path on Košenjak past St Urban). The road on which we continue, on the right side bypasses the mountain hut Dom krajanov Pernice and sports field, further leads us through the forest and past separate farms, from which on grassy slopes a nice view opens up. At the crossings, we continue straight in the direction of Ojstrica or Pot orjaških lip (path of colossal lime trees), after a time the path leads us also past a chapel and NOB monument.
On first crossroad after the farm Lunčko, to which we get to after approximately 15 minutes of walking from the mentioned farm (farm Lunčko is located next to the chapel and NOB monument), forest road towards St Urban and farm Bogatec branches off to the right, from here we continue on a wider macadam road which leads towards Ojstrica. Next follows crossing of the Potoški graben, and then before the farm Lonhtar we continue right on a marked path towards Košenjak.
The path ahead leads us on a wider newer cart track, on which we are quite steep ascending, and then we go left on a marked path, and which higher returns on a wider cart track. Next follow few crossings, where we follow the blazes, and then through a little thinner forest we reach the hunting cottage Bivak Piramida.
Above the cottage we continue right and we walk on a gently sloping path, which crosses gentle slopes. During the crossing the path leads us past the stone Volčji kamen, which was carved by a stonemason, who was victim of a wolf attack, therefore the millstone was not completed. A little further, we get to a marked crossing, where we join the path which leads past Sveti Urban, and we continue left towards Košenjak. Further, we are for quite some time ascending on and by the national border, and when the forest gets even thinner from the left joins the path which leads past Dom na Košenjaku.
We continue straight and after a minute of additional walking, we get to the top of Košenjak.
Bistriški jarek - Pernice 1:45, Pernice - Bivak Piramida 2:20, Bivak Piramida - Košenjak 0:40.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (November).

On the way: Sv. Simon in Juda Tadej (Pernice) (1059m), Bivak Piramida (1395m)