Bistra - Planina Javorje

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Črna na Koroškem (we can get here from Mežica or from Šoštanj and Velenje through the Spodnje Sleme pass), then we continue driving towards Logarska dolina, Solčava, Pristava and Podpeca. In Pristava we go left and continue driving towards the dispersed settlement Bistra. After a good 3 km of driving from Pristava, we will notice a chapel beside the road, past which we will come to a smaller crossroad, beside which we notice mountain signposts for Raduha. We park at a suitable place beside the crossroad.

Path description:
From the starting point, we go on an ascending and at first still asphalt road in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na Loki and Raduha. Asphalt already after a few steps ends, and we continue on a macadam road which we follow to a smaller crossroad, where slightly to the right, over a grazing fence a narrower road branches off. We continue on the mentioned right road which right after a smaller wooden cottage changes into a cart track, on which we walk to the edge of the forest.
Here blazes point us into the forest on a footpath which further moderately ascends on a cart track. Higher, the path brings us out of the forest on a larger clearing, where on the left side we bypass one more cottage. The path ahead returns into the forest, crosses a forest road and then ascends by the stream. After a few minutes of walking by the stream, the path turns to the right and gradually distances itself from the stream bed. The path higher turns even a bit more to the right, crosses a few short viewpoints, and then turns to the left, where after a few minutes of further walking it brings us to a forest road.
We continue in the direction of Raduha and continue on a gentle and increasingly worse forest road. We continue on the road for quite some time, and then it brings us to the mountain pasture Knezova planina (also mountain pasture Bela peč), on the edge of which we come to a marked junction.
At the junction we continue right (left Koča na Travniku, Travnik, Komen and Smrekovec) in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na Loki and continue past a smaller landmark into the forest. The path ahead moderately ascends through a belt of dense forest and quickly brings us to the pass Bela peč, where over a grazing fence we step onto the Štajerska side. We continue on the marked path, which gradually begins to descend and after a short descent brings us to the mountain pasture Vodol, where we step onto a macadam road. We follow the road to the right, but we walk on it only a few meters, as then the signs for Koča na Loki direct us left onto a footpath which transversely ascends along the upper edge of the mountain pasture. The path ahead enters the forest, where it then transversely ascends for quite some time. Higher we step out of the forest, and the path quickly brings us to the shepherd huts on mountain pasture Javorje.

On the way: Knezova planina (Planina Bela peč) (1350m), Prelaz Bela peč (1353m), Planina Vodol (1324m)

Trip can be extended to: Koča na Loki pod Raduho ( 15 min) , Velika Raduha (1 h 55 min)