Leše - Bivak Suška bajta (via Leše churches)

Access to the starting point:
From Mežica, Border crossing Holmec or Raven na Koroškem, drive to Prevalje, from where you continue to the village of Leše. When you arrive in Leše, drive to ŠD Leše, where you can park in a suitable place.

Path description:
From the sports ground, follow the asphalted road as it climbs through the village. At the crossroads follow the road slightly to the left, and when the asphalt ends, turn left onto cart track, which climbs up a grassy slope with a view. Cart track then continues for some time below the village. It then turns right at a higher altitude and leads past a small hamlet to a registration box and a few steps further on to the two churches of Lesko.
Before the churches, turn left onto a footpath which turns into a forest higher up and then, after a short climb, joins a macadam road. The road climbs gently and after only 10 metres you reach a marked crossroads, where you continue along a slightly left-hand road in the direction of Volinjak and the path into the mysterious world of the Sorrows of the Women (Prapar and Stovčnik on the right). The way ahead continues first through the forest, then past a watering hole and alongside a vast pasture. A little higher up, the road leads us to a small hamlet near the Hermanko farm, where we see the inscription Volinjak on one of the buildings, and we continue along the road, arriving at a crossroads a few minutes away, at which there is a larger brick chapel.
From the crossroads, continue straight ahead, on the road that continues to the left of the chapel (slightly to the right is the road leading to Mežica, to the sharp right is the footpath to Volinjak). After a few 10 paces, a marked path branches off to the right downhill to Mežica, and we continue along the dirt road towards the Andrej homestead. The way forward leads past the Andrej homestead, then continues first along the west side and then along the south side of the Andrej peak. Before the homestead Najevnik, we reach a small saddle, next to which there is a chapel (at the chapel, the path to Andrejev vrh branches off to the left), and we continue along the macadam road.
The road continues past the homesteads of Najevnik, Danev, Predovnik, to the homestead of Kajžar (at the homestead of Kajžar, the path branches off to the nearby church of St Lenart), which we pass on the lower right-hand side. The way ahead leads along a forest road, which soon forks, and we choose the upper road (the lower one leads to the Krajnc homestead). For a few minutes we continue to climb crosswise on the slopes of Jankovec Peak (1200 m), and then we reach a small valley between this peak on the left and Kranjč Peak (1227 m) on the right. At the beginning of the valley, a path branches off to the right to Šahman's cottage, and we continue along the road to the left, which leads us out of the forest to a kind of pasture. When the path returns to the forest a little further on, we see one of the few mountain signs on the saddle between the two peaks mentioned above (the signs along the way are mainly rare, old and partly faded).
Continue in the direction of Uršlja gora, following the road which starts to descend. After crossing a more distinct torrent, you reach the slopes of the Stribovc peak (1151 m), where the road splits. Continue along the right-hand road (on the left, the Macigoj "homestead" and Barbarski graben), which continues to descend, and we follow it to the "water hunger". After a small permanent spring, leave the road and continue ascending to the right on cart track in the direction of the homestead "Obretan", Uršlja gora and "Naravske ledin". Cart track quickly forks again, and we continue from the crossroads on a slightly left path (slightly right Uršlja gora), along which we see the sign "REST-PLAC". After a minute of further walking on the gently sloping cart track we reach the bivouac Suška bajta.
Leše - Leše churches 25 minutes, Leše churches - Suška bajta bivouac 2:35.

On the way: Leški cerkvi (674m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Koča na Naravskih ledinah

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