Veliko Tinje - Veliki vrh (on Pohorje) (via Sveti Urh)

Access to the starting point:
Drive to the centre of Slovenska Bistrica, where you turn off at the traffic lights in the direction of the health centre and continue along Partizanska cesta. Then drive through the town, continuing straight on, on the outskirts of the town, and at the industrial zone turn onto the road towards Tinje, Sveti Trem kralji and Black Lake. The asphalt road is slightly narrower and begins to climb, initially leading past the Hunting Hut of the Gams pizzeria, then higher up through the Visole settlement, and a few kilometres higher up to Zgornje Tinje, where you turn left and park on the outskirts of the settlement at the Home of the Homeowners and the Tinje Fire House.

Path description:
From the starting point, walk to the church, where the first markings appear, and we climb the stairs to the church, which we pass on the left. After the church, cross the access road and continue along the hedge, then cross the meadow back to the tarmac road, which ascends to an unmarked crossroads. From the crossroads, continue along the upper right-hand road, and you will see a waymark on the right. A little further on you reach a few more houses, where you go right to cart track, which rises crosswise above the road. Follow the signs through the forest at the crossroads, and a few minutes higher up, leave the forest and continue climbing along the path that continues along the edge of the forest. Higher up, the path turns right and returns to the forest, through which you climb to an asphalt road, which you reach at a small crossroads where you leave the markings.
Continue across the main road, onto a side road in the direction of Urha (the marked path to Sveti Trem kralji continues to the left, and the road to Zgornje Tinje leads off to the right), which ascends crosswise through the forest, but quickly leaves the forest and passes the individual homesteads of the Urh settlement. Higher up, the path returns to the dense forest, and an unmarked path from Turiška vas na Pohorju (Turiška village on Pohorje) joins from the right.
Continue along the asphalt road, which a little further on makes a left serpentine and leads us behind the serpentine to a small crossroads, where we continue slightly to the right (slightly to the left homestead Korant).
There is a short climb through the woods and we arrive at a flatter part where we see the church of St Urh on the right, which is about a minute's walk from the road.
Go around the church on the left and the road quickly leads to a crossroads, from which you turn left towards the homestead of Cehej (Cahej on the maps) (straight ahead: homestead Močnik and the road leading further towards the settlement of Šmartno na Pohorju).
Some 10 m further on, the road leaves the forest, and we go right to the unmarked cart track, which continues through the forest. The way ahead takes us along the mostly gently sloping cart track, which has a few forks, but at which we follow a wider path, which leads us mainly along the undistinguished east to south-east ridge of Repnikov vrh. Higher up, the trail flattens out completely and leads to the undistinguished highest point Repnikov vrh.
From Repnik's Peak, start descending west to north-west, and at a small crossroads go slightly right. Descend for a few minutes and when you emerge from the forest, join the waymarked path to the right. After a few steps, cross another part of the meadow and then start climbing along the edge of the forest. Continue through the lane of the forest, leaving the forest at the hunting observation post. The path ahead leads along the gently sloping cart track, which leads through the forest to Planina pod Šumikom, where you cross the asphalt road leading to St. Three Kings.
Cross the main road and continue along the side road, which leads past the chapel to the Škrinjar homestead, which is bypassed on the underside, and before the next homestead, Mlakar, the signs direct us right into the forest. A slightly steeper climb through the forest follows, where we follow the markings, and when the path is laid, we are joined on the right by a marked path past Močnik.
Continue straight ahead, followed by a few minutes of gentle to moderate climbing, and then you will reach the Hotel Jakec, above which is the Church of St. Three Kings.
From the Church of the Three Kings, continue towards the Black Lake and the Urška Trail, where you will quickly reach the edge of the nearby ski slope of the RTC Jakec - Trije kralji ski resort. The way forward initially takes you along the edge of the forest, just a few metres away from the ski slope, and higher up you cross the ski slope to the right (during ski slope opening hours, you cross the ski slope above the ski lift). On the other side of the ski slope, the path goes slightly to the right and leads under the reservoir.
A little beyond the lake, we reach the connecting ski slope, which we continue to climb (during ski slope opening hours, we walk along the leftmost edge of the ski slope), and when we reach the second ski slope a few minutes higher up, where the marked path to the Black Lake crosses the ski slope, we continue along the left edge, where there are also signs for the Urška Trail. A few minutes of steeper climbing follows and, with increasingly beautiful views, we reach a bench on the Big Top, from where we have a beautiful view of Pohorje and the valley.

From here you can continue another 10 m into the forest, where the highest point of the summit is located.
Veliko Tinje - St. Urh 1:00, St. Urh - Repnikov vrh 0:25, Repnikov vrh - St. Three Kings 1:00, St. Three Kings - Veliki vrh 0:30.
Description and figures refer to the situation in January 2022.

On the way: Urh (900m), Sveti Urh (Urh) (895m), Repnikov vrh (988m), Sveti Trije kralji (1181m)

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