Pod Peco / Koprein-Petzen - Govca (Olševa) (via Kumer)

Access to starting point:
A) Over the border crossing Jezerski vrh or Pavličev vrh we drive to Bela / Bad Vellach, and from there we continue driving towards Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. At the beginning of Železna Kapla we notice signs for Lepena / Leppen, which point us to the right. Further, we drive on a little narrower asphalt road which leads us at first by the bottom of the valley, and then at the hamlet Koprivna / Koprein - Sonnseite it starts ascending steeper. Higher, we get to a hamlet Pod Peco / Koprein - Petzen, where there is the starting point of the path on Topica / Topitza and inn Riepl. Here we continue straight on at first still asphalt road which further leads past the church of all religions. A little above the church asphalt ends, and the road starts descending. After a short descent, we get to a smaller crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Peca and St. Ana (ahead on the main road Globasnica / Globasnitz). From the crossroad, we drive only for a short time, and then we get to a gate near of which we park on an appropriate place.
B) From Dravograd or Slovenj Gradec we drive to Ravne na Koroškem, and then we continue driving in the direction of border crossing Holmec. When we drive into Austria we at first drive towards Pliberk / Bleiburg, and then we follow the signs for Globasnica / Globasnitz. After approximately 13 km from the border crossing Holmec we get to Globasnica, from there we continue driving left towards the upper part of the settlement. From Globasnica we continue on a narrower and ascending road in the direction of hamlet Pod Peco / Koprein - Petzen. Further, we are for quite some time ascending by Globaška grapa, and then the road brings us on an indistinct saddle, where we get to a smaller crossroad. Here, where we notice signs for Peca we continue left on a side road, on which we quickly descend to the near gate near of which we park on an appropriate place.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue past a gate and on the road in few minutes we descend to a crossroad at the edge of the mountain pasture Spodnja Luža.
Here marked Austrian path branches off to the left on Peca or on Bistriška špica, and we continue straight in the direction of the mountain hut on farm Kumer. The path ahead leads us through an ample mountain pasture, and then passes to the edge of the forest and splits into two parts. We choose the bottom worse road, on which by the edge of the forest we descend to the national border which we also cross. After few meters of walking on the Slovenian side we join a wider macadam road, and there we continue the descent. A little lower we continue right upwards on a marked cart track towards St. Ana and mountain hut on farm Kumer (straight the road continues towards Koprivna and marked path towards Peca). After a short ascent the cart track, on which we continue flattens, and then it continues diagonally towards the left. At the end of the crossing follows a short descent to a nearby road, and there we walk to the nearby mountain hut.
From the mountain hut, we continue in the direction of Olševa, and the path ahead still leads on the road. Behind the hut we at first bypass a chapel, a little ahead a cross, and later also a smaller hunting observatory. When the road which continues without large changes in altitude passes into the forest, splits into two parts, and we continue on the upper right road in the direction of Olševa (slightly left church of St. Ana with black Mary 2 minutes). Further, we are slightly to moderately ascending, and then after a little more distinct right turn the road flattens and brings us out of the forest on the mountain pasture Rep or Repija.
Behind the mountain pasture, the road descends a little and then after the left turn splits. We continue on a slightly right road which is further ascending diagonally, and then quickly ends and changes into a mountain path. We continue through the forest, and we walk diagonally towards the left without large changes in altitude. Over two anthills the passage is a little clumsy, because the needles of the anthill are slippery, otherwise the crossing is undemanding. When the slope flattens we quickly get to a grazing fence, where by the path, we notice a warning, that on the mountain pasture there is a dangerous bull. We cross a grazing fence and we step out of the forest, where a nice view opens up towards Olševa, and the footpath on this part becomes a little harder to follow. During the crossing of the mountain pasture we stick a little more to the right, and then we get into a lane of a forest, where we descend to a trough for livestock. When above the trough we step out of the forest we still stick more to the right, and then the path which runs near the national border starts turning to the left. A cross, which we see in the middle of the mountain pasture we bypass much higher on the right side of the mountain pasture. When the marked path returns into the forest, soon worse cart track branches off to the right, on which it is possible to continue towards Špičasti vrh / Spitzberg, and we continue straight on a wider cart track, on which we quickly get to some sort of the parking lot on Zadnji travnik.
From an unregulated parking lot we continue left in the direction of Olševa on the path which continues on a cart track and which after few meters goes into the forest. About 3 minutes we walk on a cart track, and then blazes point us slightly to the left on a beaten and with arrows marked footpath. A little higher again blazes show up, and the path returns on a cart track. We continue the ascent on a gradually steeper cart track which higher flattens a little and turns to the right. From the spot, when the cart track turns to the right, we walk there only few 10 meters and then blazes point us to the left on again steeper footpath, and it quickly brings us to the hunting bivouac Foršnerca.
From the hunting bivouac we continue straight and then after few meters left uphill. Further, the path starts ascending steeper through partly larch forest, which higher gets thinner. After few minutes of the ascent, the path flattens and brings us into a smaller cirque. Next follows few minutes of a moderate ascent, and then the path again becomes a little steeper, and it leads over more panoramic shady slopes of Olševa. Higher, the path turns left and it ascends diagonally to a smaller gully, through which on a gravel we ascend on the ridge of Olševa.
We reach the ridge at the marked crossing, where we continue right in the direction of Govca, highest peak of the before mentioned ridge (left saddle Spodnje Sleme and Raduha). The path ahead continues on the left, mostly south side of the ridge, where it crosses some even steeper and on two spots also exposed slopes (mainly in wet and snow dangerous for slipping). Further slope flattens a little, and the path a little steeper ascends. With nice views towards the mountains above the valley Logarska dolina we quickly reach some kind of side ridge, on which we ascend in few minutes to the main ridge of Olševa. Here the path turns to the left and after few 10 strides of additional walking brings us on Govca.
The starting point - Planina Luža 5 minutes, Planina Luža - Kumer 40 minutes, Kumer - Repija 45 minutes, Repija - Govševa planina 1:00, Govševa planina - Zadnji travnik 15 minutes, Zadnji travnik - Govca 1:45.

On the way: Planina Luža (1250m), Planinski dom na kmetiji Kumer (1220m), Sveta Ana v Koprivni (1218m), Planina Rep (Repija) (1330m), Govševa planina (1300m), Zadnji travnik (1382m), Lovski bivak Foršnerca (1550m)

Trip can be extended to: Obel kamen (Olševa)