Rute (Zavrh) / Bärental - Mačenski vrh / Matschacher Gupf (over saddle Mrzla raven / Gipssattel)
Starting point: Rute (Zavrh) / Bärental (950 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4711°N 14.1563°E
Path name: over saddle Mrzla raven / Gipssattel
Time of walking: 2 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 741 m
Altitude difference (by path): 741 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we drive on the highway towards Beljaku, which we leave on the first exit. From the point, when we left the highway, we follow the signs for Šentjakob v Rožu / Sankt Jakob im Rosental. When we get to the mentioned settlement we drive on the main road past Podgora / Maria Elend and settlement Sveče / Suetschach to the settlement Bistrica v Rožu / Feistritz im Rosental, where before the stores Billa and Penny we turn right in the direction of the valley Rute / Bärental. About 100 meters after we leave the main road we continue left and then on a little narrower and ascending asphalt road we drive to the parking lot, where a macadam road branches off to the right towards the church of St. Mihael, grave of former Carinthia's Landeshauptmann Jörg Haider and homesteads Štefan, Žnidar and Plavc. At the crossroad, which is situated about 100 meters before Stouhütte, are signs only for "zur Gedenkstätte".
B) Through a border crossing Ljubelj we drive to Austria, where on the main road towards Celovec / Klagenfurt am Wörtersee we drive to the second roundabout, from where we continue driving in the direction of exit Bistrica v Rožu / Feistritz im Rosental (main road towards Celovec we leave before we cross a river Drau). In the mentioned settlement immediately behind the stores Billa and Penny we turn left on a road in the direction of the valley Rute / Bärental. About 100 meters after we leave the main road we continue once again left and then on a little narrower and ascending asphalt road drive to the parking lot, where a macadam road branches off to the right towards the church of St. Mihael, grave of former koroškega Landeshauptmann Jörg Haider and homesteads Štefan, Žnidar and Plavc. At the crossroad, which is situated about 100 meters before Stouhütte, are signs only for "zur Gedenkstätte".
C) From Dravograd or Slovenj Gradec we drive to Ravne na Koroškem, and then we continue driving in the direction of border crossing Holmec. When we drive in Austria at first we drive towards Pliberk / Bleiburg, and then we follow the signs for Globasnica / Globasnitz and ahead Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel, Borovlje / Ferlach. Behind Borovlje at the roundabout, we join the road through the border crossing Ljubelj. Here in first roundabout we continue in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt, in the second in the direction of Bistrica v Rožu / Feistritz im Rosental. In the mentioned settlement immediately behind the stores Billa and Penny we turn left on a road in the direction of the valley Rute / Bärental. About 100 meters after we leave the main road we continue once again left and then on a little narrower and ascending asphalt road drive to the parking lot, where a macadam road branches off to the right towards the church of St. Mihael, grave of former koroškega Landeshauptmann Jörg Haider and homesteads Štefan, Žnidar and Plavc. At the crossroad, which is situated about 100 meters before Stouhütte, are signs only for "zur Gedenkstätte".
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go slightly right on the road, by which there are signs "Zur Gedenkstätte". The road immediately starts ascending and turns right. We quickly get to a crossroad from which we continue right (the left road leads towards the homestead Žnidar / Schneider), and then we quickly ascend to the next crossroad, where we continue left (straight - newer church of St. Mihael in Rute / St. Michael (Bärental) and the grave of the former Landeshauptmann Jörg Haider - 1 minute).
Further, we are ascending on the macadam road, from which for some time a nice view opens up on Mačenski vrh / Matschacher Gupf. Few minutes higher, we get to meadows and a crossroad, by which there is a wooden religious symbol, and we continue straight towards the nearby homestead Plavc / Plautz, which was the first time mentioned already in the year 1490. At the mentioned part when we look back a nice view opens up on the highest peaks of Karawanks, and only a little after the homestead we get to a marked crossing.
We go left in the direction of saddle Mrzla raven / Gipssattel, Mačenski vrh and settlement Sveče / Suetschach and we continue the ascent on the path 669 (right - Bistrica v Rožu / Feistritz im Rosental and Mačenski vrh on the path 668). Immediately after the crossing we cross a grazing fence, and we are then ascending through the forest, through the forest we are ascending all the way to the crossing on the saddle Mrzla raven.
From the saddle, we go right in the direction of Mačenski vrh and we continue on a cart track which is situated right from a smaller ridge (blazes otherwise point us on a small ridge, but no one uses the footpath on the ridge and the path is overgrown). After few minutes, the cart track ends, and we continue straight on a marked path which starts steeply ascending through the forest. The steep path higher for few steps flattens, and then starts ascending even steeper. Next follows a very steep ascent, where because of the substantial steepness mainly in wet there is a greater danger of slipping. Higher for some time a nice view opens up towards the western Karawanks, and the path only a little further comes out of the forest, flattens and joins the path which leads on the eastern to southeastern ridge. From here follows only few 10 strides of walking and we get to a panoramic peak.
The starting point - Plavc 40 minutes, Plavc - Mačenski vrh 1:35.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (June).
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