Slivnica pri Mariboru - Ledinekov kogel (eastern path)

Access to starting point:
We drive to Slivnica pri Mariboru, where at the Slivnica Kindergarten the described path begins. We park in a suitable parking lot nearby, but some parking spaces are reserved solely for kindergarten employees and visitors. We can also park a few minutes away by the cemetery.

Route description:
The beginning of the described path leads through an area where lingering is prohibited between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
By the kindergarten, we notice signposts for the Mariborska koča, which direct us to a path that continues to the left of the kindergarten, then we proceed alongside the sports fields. After a few minutes, we leave the restricted area and arrive at Castle Slivnica, which is in an abandoned and decaying state, but we continue to the left, and behind a nearby house, we veer slightly to the right onto a marked path that ascends diagonally above the road. After a short diagonal ascent, from where a view opens up to the surrounding settlements, we return to the asphalt road, follow it to the right, enter the forest, and shortly after reach a marked crossroad, where we continue to the right on a marked road. Just a little further, the road splits again, but this time we choose the upper road, which leads us past a few more houses before it ends, and we continue the ascent on a cart track that climbs through the forest.
Higher up, we reach the edge of the forest, where we bypass a nearby farm on the right side, then arrive at a macadam road on which we continue, or partly follow a parallel marked path. Higher up, we leave the forest, and a beautiful view opens up, with the city of Maribor clearly visible to the right below. When we reach an asphalt road a little further on, we turn left, and from the next crossroad in the settlement of Šestdobe, we enter a dead-end street, follow it for a few steps, then turn right and ascend onto a forested ridge.
When we return to the asphalt road, we continue to the left, and a few minutes further, at a wooden sculpture, we join the marked path from Fram.
We continue straight towards the Mariborska koča (left Fram) and ascend moderately, mostly through the forest; when we leave the forest, we descend to the farm Plahutnik, where we continue straight from the crossroad on a marked cart track that climbs through a hay meadow. Higher, we cross a strip of forest and arrive at the hospital for lung diseases, behind which we cross a wider asphalt road. We again ascend through a strip of forest, and when we return to a wider road we follow it to the right, and from it still before the left bend we go left on a cart track which cuts the mentioned longer bend. When we step onto it again we cross it once more and ascend a few stairs to a macadam road, which we follow left upwards. There follows some ascent on the macadam road, which soon flattens and leads us past the Dom Planinka cottage and a few houses to Petkovo sedlo, where there is a marked junction.
At Petkovo sedlo, we join the path from Pivola, and the path splits. Along a slightly left road, the path continues toward Skalca waterfall; slightly to the right, a road leads to hotel Tisa; to the right, a path leads to a hunting cottage, but we continue straight toward Mariborska koča.
We continue through a meadow between two roads, then the path enters the forest, where we follow the blazes. Higher up, we cross the main road toward hotel Bellevue once more, and a little further, we leave the forest. We continue past a cross, and when we reach an asphalt road, we proceed from a marked junction onto a side road toward sv. Bolfenka and hotel Bellevue (left to Mariborska koča, 3 minutes). We continue on a side road which leads us through the settlement of holiday cottages, in the settlement we continue on the upper left road which starts ascending steeper (straight - sv. Bolfenka and hotel Bellevue). Settlement of holiday cottages ends after a few minutes, and we continue on a marked cart track, where at the junctions of numerous logging trails we follow the blazes. Higher, we reach the path which leads from the upper station of the cable car, and we continue sharply left in the direction of Ruška koča na Arehu. We continue with an easy ascent and in a few minutes of additional walking, we arrive at the indistinct Ledinekov kogel, where we notice the radar tower.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in the years 2022, 2023, and 2025.

Along the route: Slivniško Pohorje (726m), Petkovo sedlo (881m)

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