Muta (Spodnja Muta) - Sveti Trije Kralji (above Radlje ob Dravi)
Starting point: Muta (Spodnja Muta) (330 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.6128°N 15.167°E
Time of walking: 2 h 30 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 490 m
Altitude difference (by path): 550 m
Map: Pohorje - izletniška karta 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Dravograd, and then we continue driving in the direction towards Maribor. After the crossing of Mučka Bistrica we turn left in the settlement Muta, where then on an appropriate place in the middle of the settlement Spodnja Muta we park. Some parking lots are intended only for residents.
B) We drive to Maribor, and then we follow the signs for Dravograd. A little after the settlement Zgornja Vižinga, we turn right in the direction of the settlement Muta, where then in the center of Spodnja Muta we park on an appropriate parking lot. Some parking lots are intended only for residents.
Path description:
We start at road Cesta na Primož, and there we are lightly ascending towards the northeast. After few minutes, we get to a crossroad, where mountain sign for Bricnik points us left, and we quickly get to the beginning of the settlement Sveti Primož nad Muto. At the next crossroad blazes point us to the left and then we diagonally ascend over panoramic grassy slope. When a little higher road turns right, loses an asphalt covering and for some time passes into the forest, where it makes a right hairpin turn. We soon return out of the forest, where the path leads past the homestead Sušek, and a little above the homestead from the crossroad we continue straight or slightly right. On the macadam road, we also bypass turn-off to the farm Breznik, at the next crossroad, at the sign for farm Janež, we leave the road and we continue on a marked path, which for some time steeply ascends through the forest, and when it flattens, it joins the macadam road. We continue on a panoramic road, from which a nice view opens up towards Pohorje, Uršlja gora, Peca, and in the distance are visible also Kamnik Savinja Alps. Buildings on farm Pentat we bypass on the left side, and then we reach an asphalt road which we only cross and we continue towards Bricnik (signpost for cottage Zavetišče Onuk - Glavar shows right, but also for this destination is better to continue towards Bricnik). Next follows an ascent through the forest, when we reach homestead Žaucer we bypass it on the right side. Next follows few minutes of a diagonal ascent towards the right and left hairpin turn, behind which we again reach an asphalt road and marked crossing.
From the crossing, we continue right in the direction of the cottage Zavetišče Glavar (left - church of St. Primož, straight - Bricnik) and we continue on a gentle road, on which in a little less than 10 minutes we get to the cottage Zavetišče Glavar, where there is a marked crossing and a stamp KPP.
From the cottage, we continue straight (left - Bricnik and spruce Glavarjeva smreka) and at first, we still walk with nice views, and then the road which starts gradually descending, passes into the forest. Next follow few smaller crossroads, where we go straight, and when we get to a little bigger crossroad we continue slightly right in the direction of Radlje ob Dravi (sharply left on a footpath - Bricnik, left on the road - Sveti Anton, the path straight ends in the forest, sharply right - homestead Dobnik).
The path ahead leads us past the recycling spot, and the forest soon ends and for a short time, we again continue with nice views. At a newer house the road splits, and we continue slightly left in the direction of Sveti Trije Kralji, so that we bypass the house on the left side.
At the religious symbol the road returns into the forest, and there in a moderate ascent we walk until we get to few minutes distant church of Holy Three Kings, from which a beautiful view opens up.
Muta - Zavetišče Onuk - Glavar 1:35, Zavetišče Onuk - Glavar - Sveti Trije Kralji 0:55.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in October 2018 and March 2019.
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