Bistriški jarek (Glasbeni dom) - Bivak Piramida

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Dravograd, and then continue driving towards Maribor. After the 8.0 km road sign, we pay attention, because a little behind the bus stop and the pedestrian crossing, we turn left into the settlement Gortina (the turn-off from the main road is not marked). Immediately when we leave the main road, we arrive in the settlement Gortina, and then we drive towards Muta, turning left at the marked crossroads, where we notice signs for Bistriški jarek. The road then quickly brings us to Bistriški jarek, through which we gently ascend. We park by the former POŠ Branik, today Glasbeni dom – that is the inscription on the building; otherwise, the building is used for various activities.
B) First, we drive to Maribor, and then we follow the signs for Dravograd. When we are already crossing Mučka Bistrica, a little after the Tuš store we drive right towards the settlement Muta 1. The road ahead brings us to Muta, where at the crossroads we follow the priority road; from a somewhat larger crossroads we go left, so that we continue driving towards Gortina. A little after the settlement Muta ends, from the marked crossroads we drive right towards Bistriški jarek. The road then quickly brings us to Bistriški jarek, through which we gently ascend. We park by the former POŠ Branik, today Glasbeni dom – that is the inscription on the building; otherwise, the building is used for various activities.

Path description:
From the marked parking lot, we continue on the asphalt road, which behind the sports field quickly brings us to a marked junction by the ecological chapel.
We continue left towards Pernice (right Sedelnikov slap and sv. Jernej), from the road we go immediately a little more left onto the cart track. On the cart track we ascend to the nearby farm, where behind the house we go left onto the marked cart track. The cart track first ascends transversely to the left, then turns right; after the bend we leave it and continue slightly right on the marked footpath, which starts to ascend steeply through the forest. Higher we cross an even older cart track; after a further short ascent we join a somewhat wider cart track, on which we also arrive out of the forest. The path ahead leads us past the hunting observatory, then we cross a wider macadam road and continue on the road leading to the nearby homestead Abram. Above the homestead we again continue on the cart track; the path brings us to a nicely arranged chapel, above which the path temporarily becomes somewhat steeper. The path ahead leads us along the power line route, higher we cross a wider road once more. In continuation, the path leads us past the homestead Hribernik, above which the path gradually enters the forest. A few minutes of ascent through the forest follow, then we arrive at the pastures below the church of sv. Simona and Jude Tadeja, where the trail temporarily disappears. We continue with ever better views to the church, where we go left and past the NOB monument walk to the former Planinsko zavetišče pri Knezu, where the stamp box is located.
Behind the former shelter we arrive at a junction and crossroads, and we continue on the macadam road in the direction of Ojstrica (right path to Košenjak past sv. Urbana). The road we continue on bypasses Dom krajanov Pernice and the sports field on the right side, and further leads us through the forest and past individual farms, from which a nice view opens on the grassy slopes. At the junctions we continue straight in the direction of Ojstrica or. Poti orjaških lip, after some time the path also leads us past a chapel and NOB monument.
At the first crossroads after the farm Lunčko, to which we arrive after approximately 15 minutes of walking from the mentioned farm (farm Lunčko is located at the chapel and NOB monument), a forest road branches off to the right towards sv. Urbanu and farm Bogatec; we from here continue on the wider macadam road leading towards Ojstrica. Crossing of Potoški graben follows, then before the farm Lonhtar we continue right on the marked path towards Košenjak.
The path ahead leads us on a wider newer cart track, on which we ascend quite steeply, then we go left on the marked path, which higher returns to the wider cart track. A few more junctions follow, where we follow the marks, then through somewhat sparser forest we reach the hunting hut Bivak Piramida.
Bistriški jarek - Pernice 1:45, Pernice - Bivak Piramida 2:20.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2018 (November).

On the way: Sv. Simon in Juda Tadej (Pernice) (1059m)

Trip can be extended to: Huhnerkogel/Košenjak ( 40 min)