Bistriški jarek (Verdinek) - Bricnik

Access to the starting point:
a) Drive to Dravograd, then continue to Maribor. After the 8. 0 km road marker, pay attention, because a little after the bus stop and the pedestrian crossing, you will turn left into the Gortina settlement (the exit from the main road is not marked). As soon as you leave the main road you will arrive in Gortina, and we then drive in the direction of Muta, turning left at the marked crossroads, where you will see the signs for Bistriški trench. The road then leads quickly into the Bistriški trench, through which you climb steeply. After the Verdinek homestead and before the 6. 0 km road marker, a dirt road branches off slightly to the right, leading towards the Štrigel homestead. At the crossroads, where there are also red mountain signs slightly to the right, the route described above begins.

b) First drive to Maribor, then follow the signs for Dravograd. Once you have crossed Mučka Bistrica, turn right a little after the Tuš store in the direction of Muta 1. The route leads to Muta, where you follow the priority road at the crossroads, and from a slightly larger crossroads turn left, so that you continue towards Gortina. A little after the Muta settlement ends, turn right at the marked crossroads towards Bistriški trench. The road then quickly leads into the Bistriški trench, through which you climb steeply. After the Verdinek homestead and before the 6. 0 km road marker, a dirt road branches off slightly to the right, leading towards the Štrigel homestead. At the crossroads, where there are also red mountain signs slightly to the right, the route described above begins.

Path description:
From the starting point, continue slightly further to the right than the side road, on the footpath in the direction of St. Jernej and Bricnika. The path initially crosses a pasture and then passes into the woods, where it becomes completely flat at a sign. Cross the slopes to the right for a short distance, then continue along the stream. Higher along the stream, the national border is also crossed for a while, but the path leads us higher up to cart track, which we climb for a few minutes. From cart track, the mountain signs then direct us sharp left, and we continue to climb through the forest for a while, before the Lubej homestead, we cross the road.

Before the homestead, continue slightly to the right, on a fainter path, and above the homestead you will reach cart track, which you follow to the right. A few minutes higher up, the well-marked path leads to a crossroads, at which there is an information board with a description of the Knafelč marking with a green ring.

Continue straight on towards St. Jernej (left Austria, St. Lovrenc), and a little higher up the trail leads out of the forest, where you go right, crossing into the forest once more. Leave the woods quickly, then pass the cemetery to reach the church of St. Jerome.
From the church, descend quickly to the Primož homestead, where a registration box and a stamp are located by a mighty lime tree.
There is also a marked crossroads by the lime tree, and we continue slightly left in the direction of Bricnik and St. Lawrence (slightly right St. Primož). After the Primož homestead, we continue along the macadam road for a short distance, and then go slightly left on the footpath, which continues across a vast meadow. The path continues past a chapel and a hunting observation post, then turns left and enters the forest. Through the woods we start to descend moderately at first, but when the signs point us to the right, to the worse cart track, we start to descend a little more. At a lower level you reach the Vud stream, along which you continue for a while, then cross it and climb to a nearby crossroads, at which there is a wooden sign.
From the crossroads, a path branches off to the left towards St. Lawrence, and we continue to the right towards Odernik Farm, Bricnik and Muti. The path continues along cart track and widens into a dirt road at Odernik. Continue along the macadam road, which leads us along the increasingly beautiful views reaching to Peć, Raduha and Uršlje Gora, and after the nearby chapel the road gradually returns to the forest, where at the crossroads we continue right towards Bricnik and St. From the crossroads, continue along the road for a few minutes, then go straight on to cart track, which climbs steeply through the forest at first, but when it levels out, quickly leads to the top of Bricnik.
Bistriški trench - St. Jernej 1:40, St. Jernej - Bricnik 1:30.
Description and images refer to the situation in 2018 (October).

On the way: Sveti Jernej nad Muto (1038m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Sv. Lovrenc na Ivniku / St. Lorenzen ob Eibiswald

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