St. John the Baptist on Ojstrica - Huhnerkogel/Košenjak
Starting point: St. John the Baptist on Ojstrica (982 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.6193°N 15.0353°E
Time of walking: 1 h 30 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: easily
Altitude difference: 540 m
Altitude difference (by path): 540 m
Map: Koroška 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We drive into the center of Dravograd (to here from Maribor through a valley Dravska dolina or from Velenje through Slovenj Gradec), where signs for Ojstrica point us on the road which after 6.5km brings us to the church of St. Janez Krstnik on Ojstrica near of which we park on a parking lot.
Path description:
From the parking lot at the church, we continue on the asphalt road which quickly brings us to a crossroad by which we notice numerous signposts.
We continue straight in the direction of the mountain hut (sharply right St. Urban) on the road, that is gently ascending and from grassy slopes passes into a short lane of a forest. The road which further runs through panoramic meadows only a little before the mountain hut brings us to the next crossroad, where we continue sharply right (straight - hunting cottage) and in few additional strides, we get to the mentioned mountain hut.
From the mountain hut, we return few steps back to the information board on which there is an inscription box and signpost for Košenjak. We continue the ascent in the direction of Košenjak on the path which already after few additional strides goes into the forest. The path ahead is moderately to steeply ascending through mostly dense forest, and higher it brings us to the spot, where a wider cart track (almost road) joins.
And the mentioned cart track we only cross (left - Košenjak gentle path) because blazes point us on a wide path which starts ascending diagonally through the spruce forest. Higher, the path passes out of the forest on a wide clearing at the end of which from the right joins the path from the church of St. Urban and only a little further also the path from Austria. We continue left and gently sloping path, which ahead runs by the border lane we follow all the way to the top of Košenjak, which we reach after few additional strides.
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