Mežica - Koča na Naravskih ledinah (via Sveti Lenart)

Access to the starting point:
a) From Raven na Koroškem or via Border crossing Holmec drive to Mežica, where at the beginning of the village turn left towards the Tuš store, the sports park and the music hall. After the Tuš shop and before the pensioners' home, turn left towards Leše. After the crossroads, cross the Meža River, and after the bridge, you will see the first red mountain signs pointing to the right. Just a little further on, we reach the next crossroads, where the signs for Uršlja gora point left, and we turn right, where we park by the sports ground and the music hall.
b) From Črna na Koroškem, drive to Mežica, where you turn right in the centre of the village towards the sports park and left at the next junction. Drive through the village for a while and then turn right after the pensioners' home in the direction of Leš. After the crossroads, cross the Meža River, and after the bridge, you will see the first red mountain signs pointing to the right. Just a little further on, we reach the next crossroads, where the signs for Uršlja gora point to the left, and we turn right, where we park by the sports ground and the music hall.

Path description:
From the starting point, return to the marked crossroads, then continue along the ascending road in the direction of Naravske ledin, Uršlja gora and KPP (Koroška planinska pot). At the Peršak carpenter's, continue straight onto the macadam road, which takes you into the forest and turns into a mountain trail that continues along the torrent. A little further on the right we see a wooden bridge, and we continue straight ahead and stay on the right bank of the torrent for a while. Cross the torrent for a few minutes, then follow the markings carefully at successive crossroads. Higher up, at a crossroads, we reach an asphalt road, and we continue along the left-hand road, along which the KPP markings continue. Walk along the road for a few minutes, from which you will have a nice view towards Pec, and then continue right into the forest, where you will follow the cart track. Cart track leads us higher out of the forest, and then through the yard of a nearby farmhouse we reach the next asphalt road, which we just cross. It then climbs through a hay meadow, and then turns slightly left into the forest. Walk through the forest for only a short time, as you quickly reach a macadam road, which you follow to the right (left Volinjak, Leše churches, Leše. . . ). The way forward takes us past the Andrej homestead, and then continues first along the west side, then along the south side of Andrej's 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 forward 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 hut, and we continue along the road on 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 Uršlja gora, following the road as it starts to descend. After crossing a more distinct torrent, you reach the slopes of 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 splits again, and we continue from the crossroads along the upper right cart track (slightly left Suška bajta bivouac 1 minute). After a short climb, we reach the northern ridge of Suška vrh, where the path leading past Suška bajta joins us on the left, and we continue along the path, which passes onto the steep slopes of Suška vrh (the area called Suška plazi), where there is a risk of avalanches and slipping in the snow. We first cross these slopes, then ascend crosswise and reach higher ground on the eastern forested ridge of Suško vrh, where the path from the Dukles hunting lodge and the Great Cock's roosting site joins us from the right.
Continue straight ahead, initially slightly downhill, and then, with views reaching as far as Golica / Koralpa, reach the farmstead of Obretan (Obretanovo), where the better-marked path from Lesy joins us on the left, and where the Obretanovo camping home of the family of the Carinthian steelworkers is also located. Obretanovo is also on the left.
We continue along the road, which leads us to a marked crossroads after the gate, and we continue the other way to the right, on a path that ascends and does not descend, and we see the sign Godec next to it. The way ahead leads us without major ascents and descents, but quickly leads us to a road where the path forks, and the crossroads is not particularly marked.
Continue right along the forest road (straight on the ascending cart track Godec farm and Uršlja gora over Kozji hrbet), from which the signs for Naravske ledine soon direct us left up onto the footpath, where we then follow the markings. When walking on the cart track, which crosses the slopes, before it ends, continue right down and then cross the slopes on the mountain path. There is a short crossing of steeper slopes, and then descend the log steps back to the forest road (you can also walk on the forest road up to this point). The road, from which we get a temporary view, is soon left again and we continue left on the path, which "cuts" a slightly longer bend in the road over a small hill. Just before we return to the road, which we continue to cross, we are joined on the left by the marked trail from Raven na Koroškem (the trail past Prežihove bajte). On the other side of the road, we continue through the forest for a short time, and then the trail leads us along the lower part of the meadow, where we join the trail from Žerjav.
From the crossroads, continue along the right-hand edge of the meadow, and after 5 minutes of moderate ascent, walk to the Cottage on the Naravski Lediny.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2017 (March).

On the way: Taborniški dom roda koroških jeklarjev Obretanovo (1040m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Dom na Uršlji gori, Uršlja gora (Plešivec) (1 h 45 min)

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