Sveti Jurij (Remšnik) - Kapunerhütte
Starting point: Sveti Jurij (Remšnik) (685 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.62584°N 15.30018°E
Time of walking: 2 h 10 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 318 m
Altitude difference (by path): 390 m
Map: Pohorje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From the road Dravograd - Maribor, in the settlement Vas we turn left towards Remšnik. Next follows few kilometers of ascent, and we follow the road to Remšnik, where we park on a parking lot below the church of St. Jurij.
B) From the road Maribor - Dravograd, in the settlement Brezno we turn right towards Remšnik and Brezni Vrh. We further follow the signs for Remšnik, where we park on a parking lot below the church of St. Jurij.
Path description:
From the parking lot below the church, in the direction of access to the starting point, we descend to the nearby crossroad, at which we continue straight. The path ahead leads us also past the chapel and we quickly get to the next crossroad, at which we continue straight towards Kapunar (left - Vas). We continue past few more houses, from which a nice view opens up back towards the church of St. Jurij, and the road then passes into the forest, through which it continues few minutes. When we leave the forest we go past few more houses, and then we get to the farm Helbel, where the path splits.
We continue straight (right - Sveti Pankracij via homestead Zgornji Kočnik) and we follow the blazes. Also higher we follow the blazes, and turn-offs of the roads lead to the nearby homesteads.
At the homestead Zgornji Murn we reach a marked crossing, where we join the path which starts at OMP Remšnik and we continue left towards Kapunar.
The road then gradually turns towards the left and in few minutes brings us to the farm Slanik, where it for some time flattens. From the farm we short time continue with nice views on part of Drau valley and Pohorje, and then the road returns into the forest and it brings us to the church of St. Urban.
From the church, we continue on the road, and then before the farm Buzenik we continue right on a cart track which past the chapel brings us into the forest. On the cart track, we in few minutes ascend to the national border, where we get very close to Austrian path.
We continue on the Slovenian side of the national border, where at the wooden cross Austrian path turns a little more to the right. After few minutes of the ascent paths again get closer and then they run parallel to the hunting cross, where our path turns a little to the left. Next follows few minutes of walking, and then we get to the hut of amateur radio operators on Kapunar, where there is an inscription box and from where a nice view opens up on the Slovenian side.
From the hut, we continue slightly right in the direction of the mountain hut Kapunerhütte.
We continue on at first gently sloping path, which crosses slopes towards the left and then it ascends diagonally on the western ridge of Kapunar, from where a nice view opens up towards Austria.
We continue left (right peak of Kapunar 2 minutes) and on the border ridge we descend to a smaller saddle between the both peaks of Kapunar.
From the saddle, where also a little shorter path joins, which before the hut of amateur radio operators ascends on the border ridge, we continue in the direction of the mountain hut Kapunerhütte. From the saddle, we at first still walk on the ridge and then the path turns right on the Austrian side and in few minutes it descends to the mentioned mountain hut.
Remšnik - Sveti Urban 0:55, Sveti Urban - hut of amateur radio operators on Kapunar 1:00, hut of amateur radio operators on Kapunar - Kapunerhütte 0:15.
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