Mežica - Koča na Pikovem (old path)
Starting point: Mežica (495 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.5164°N 14.8514°E 
Path name: old path
Time of walking: 2 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 497 m
Altitude difference (by path): 530 m
Map: Koroška 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From Črna na Koroškem or from Ravne na Koroškem, or through the border crossing Holmec or Mežica, we drive to Mežica, where signs for cemetery Mirje point us towards the west on a local road. We drive also past the old cemetery, and then we park on a marked parking lot.
Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the asphalt road upwards, when the road turns left, we leave it and we continue straight on a cart track in the direction of Pikovo. We continue on a cart track which is ascending on the route of a former ski track, and today by the path, we notice field for disc golf Mežica. At first when we look back we also see Mežica and surrounding hills, and then the path by which there almost aren't any blazes, passes into a small valley between 729 meters high hill on the left (on maps unnamed peak), and Štalekarjev vrh on the right. When the valley turns towards the west, from ski track marked cart track branches off to the left, on which we continue. Cart track quickly turns even a little more to the left and then it ascends diagonally on a ridge, where we continue right in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na Pikovem. For some time path follows the ridge and then it gradually passes slightly left on slopes, on which we are mostly diagonally ascending. Higher on the left bottom side we bypass homestead Jesenik, where the path leads us past the ruins of old house. A little further, we reach the macadam road which few steps we follow to the left (straight a normal marked path towards Koča na Pikovem), and then we go slightly right, on at first a worse footpath, by which we notice older blazes. The path quickly passes into the forest and then it ascends diagonally towards the left. A little further, we reach a small steep valley, through which we steeply ascend, and during the ascent, we notice numerous traces of motocross bikes. Higher, the path flattens and we join the normal path.
We again continue in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na Pikovem and through the forest, we ascend to a wooden cross, by which there is a quite old bench.
We continue straight (left Pikov vrh) and we gradually start descending. On the part when we step out of the forest, another path branches off to the left on Pikov vrh, and we continue straight to the near homestead Pik, after which the nearby surrounding got its name. Next follows few minutes of walking on the road, from which at first a view opens up a little in the direction of Peca, and then through the forest we reach the church of St. Helena, behind which there is a mountain hut Koča na Pikovem.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (May).
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