Ribnica na Pohorju - Ribniška koča

Access to starting point:
A) From the road Maribor - Dravograd, before the settlement Brezno we turn left in the direction of Podvelka, Ribnica na Pohorju and Ribniška koča. After the bridge over the river Drava we get to Podvelka, and the road further we follow in the direction of Ribnica na Pohorju. After approximately 10 km from the bridge over the river Drava we get to the center of Ribnica na Pohorju, where we go left and then a little ahead we park on a parking lot in the center of the settlement. The parking lot is located a little ahead from the parish church of St. Jernej.
B) From Dravograd we drive towards Maribor, after Radlje ob Dravi at the roundabout we leave the main road towards Maribor and we continue driving in the direction towards Vuhred, Ribnica na Pohorju and Ribniška koča. After the bridge over the river Drava we get to Vuhred, and the road further we follow in the direction of Ribnica na Pohorju. After approximately 10 km from the bridge over the river Drava we get to the center of Ribnica na Pohorju, where we go right and then a little ahead we park on a parking lot in the center of the settlement. The parking lot is located a little ahead from the parish church of St. Jernej.

Path description:
From the center of Ribnica na Pohorju we at first continue on an ascending asphalt road, from which we soon go right in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na Pesniku. We quickly get to the foot of the ski slope, where we leave the road and we continue the ascent left by the edge of the ski track. When we ascend to the top of the ski slope, we cross also a lane of a forest and then we reach the macadam road, where the path flattens. We for some time continue on the road which leads through the forest, and higher we get to a crossroad from which we continue straight on a footpath in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na Pesniku. Next follows approximately 15 minutes of a moderate ascent and the path brings us out of the forest, where in front of us we already notice the mountain hut, to which we have only few minutes of easy walking.
From the mountain hut, we walk to the road which runs to the mountain hut Ribniška koča, and we follow it to the left, and we walk there only few steps, because from the nearby crossroad we continue on a footpath which ascends between the both roads. Next follows an ascent on a cart track which has higher quite a few crossings, where we follow quite frequent blazes. Higher the cart track which most of the time runs through the forest changes into a footpath which starts ascending steeper. During the ascent, the path leads us past the hunting cottage, and above it we get to a ski track of the ski center Ribniško Pohorje. We continue by the edge of the ski slope and a more panoramic path brings us to the mountain hut Ribniška koča on Pohorje.
Ribnica na Pohorju - Koča na Pesniku 1:05, Koča na Pesniku - Ribniška koča 1:05.

On the way: Koča na Pesniku mountain hut (1101m)