Tourist farm Perk - Matkova kopa (shepherd-hunting path)

Access to starting point:
From Kranjska side over Kranjski rak or from Štajerska side past Mozirje we drive through Luče and ahead towards the valley Logarska dolina. At the turn-off for valley Logarska dolina we continue driving forward towards the border crossing Pavličevo sedlo and about kilometer higher we go left over a bridge in Matkov kot. At the smaller power station starts a macadam. On the right is a turn-off towards the tourist farm Gradišnik (a homestead of known Slovenian zitherist Karli Gradišnik). We just drive ahead on a macadam past farms Kočnar and Matk to the farm Perk (smaller sawmill on the right side and fenced place for pigs on the left side of the road). There we kindly ask where we can park, so that we don't hinder their work.

Path description:
We park at the farm Perk or in its vicinity. Our path starts at the sawmill Perkova žaga on a forest cart track right steeply upwards. A little higher we come on the ridge on a marked path-cart track, which immediately in a short distance turns left two times. Then the path-cart track goes right straight on the ridge upwards and in doing so twice crosses a forest road. Above the second crossing, the path-cart track soon turns to the right, and we just go straight and immediately again left on a poorly visible footpath. The footpath over a small stream after about 100 meters brings us on a forest clearing (path here vanishes) on which we continue by the right side to a saddle Lesnikovo sedlo a little higher. There we come on the forest road which leads us left through the clearing upwards. Then we turn right upwards on a cart track on the upper side of the clearing. At the end of the cart track and clearing there is the beginning of a nice shepherd-hunting path. A little higher we ascend right on Jerebičje (we can also go diagonally, paths then again join). We continue on the ridge of Jerebičje and then we descend downwards on a saddle Matkovo sedlo. The saddle is like a long almost flat grassy broad ridge, with a smaller decaying hut below the left edge, surrounded with forest. The path is here very poorly visible. At the end of the saddle we ascend steeply upwards on a vegetated ridge. The path is again well visible. Soon are behind us also Matkov Grintovec and Jevševec. Ascent there takes a short time because they are only a little above the path. The easiest access there is on their end (not the beginning), looking in the direction of walking. A little further, the path descends very steeply far downwards past the precipitous gully on the left, on the clearing past the salt lick to a gully below. Then we cross the gully and ascend on the other side steeply upwards. The path ahead is easier, but several times very exposed and dangerous for slipping. We several times descend and ascend a little, which also our legs tells us. After a long crossing with dwarf pines vegetated slopes of Matkova kopa we get to the gully (usually there is a cairn, if not we place it), on which there is the beginning of the last part of the ascent on the very peak. The path from here on is gone.
Further ascent is hard to describe. While we are going forward through the gully, above it we notice a sharp rocky peak, towards which we have to go. From the entrance gully we ascend into a less distinct gully right below it, and on its (right) edge we ascend to dwarf pines. Then few steps again to the right, little upwards, again little right and up (traces are visible - probably not from a person). Without a bigger fight with dwarf pines we are on the lower edge of the scree (for followers we place a cairn). From here on, there isn't any orientational problems. By the edge of the scree we ascend below the mountain walls, where we go to the right. The easiest approach towards the summit of Matkova kopa from here runs near the right edge. Nicely visible steep groove left next to it, it is the easiest to just go straight upwards. When we climb this part, in front of us there is the peak of Matkova kopa.

On the way: Lesnikovo sedlo (1517m), Jerebičje (1761m), Matkovo sedlo (1623m), Matkov Grintovec (1700m), Jevševec (1730m)