Bistriški jarek (border crossing Muta) - Kozji vrh (at Košenjak)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Dravograd, and then we continue driving towards Maribor. After the road sign 8.0 km we need to pay attention, because we will a little behind the bus stop and a pedestrian crossing, turn left in a settlement Gortina (turn off from the main road isn't marked). Immediately, when we leave the main road we get to the settlement Gortina, and then we drive in the direction of Muta, we turn left at the marked crossroad, where we notice signs for Bistriški jarek. The road then quickly brings us in Bistriški jarek, through which we are gently ascending. Soon after the road sign 6 km we come to a smaller crossroad, where before the bridge we park on an appropriate place.
B) First, we drive to Maribor, and then we follow the signs for Dravograd. When we already cross the river Mučka Bistrica, a little after the store Tuš we drive right in the direction of the settlement Muta 1. The path ahead brings us in Muta, where on a crossroads we follow priority road, from a little bigger crossroad we go left, so that we are further driving towards Gortina. A little after the settlement Muta ends, from marked crossroad we drive right in the direction of Bistriški jarek. The road then quickly brings us in Bistriški jarek, through which we are gently ascending. Soon after the road sign 6 km we come to a smaller crossroad, where before the bridge we park on an appropriate place.

Path description:
From the starting point by the bridge we cross the river Mučka Bistrica, and then right behind the bridge we continue left, where at first we walk by the river. Before the abandoned Lipnik mill path turns right and starts ascending on a cart track. Higher, we reach pastures of the nearby farm and a well-marked cart track brings us to the farm Lipnik, which we bypass on the right side. Behind the house, we step on a macadam road which we follow to the right, at the nearby crossroad we go sharply left towards Pernice. The path ahead leads us on a wider macadam road, where we also go past separate farms and at the crossroads, we follow the blazes. With nice views then we reach the marked crossing, where signs for Pernice point us slightly right on a cart track which ascends diagonally and higher turns right. After the crossing of a meadow path for some time runs by the edge of the forest, after that, when already turns left, passes into the forest. We continue through the forest, higher twice in a row we cross a road, after a shorter diagonal ascent to the right we also cross a well.
Before the homestead Porčnik path turns left and then it ascends to a little poorly marked crossing on Razpotnik, where we continue on the left cart track. Cart track returns into the forest and it brings us to the sign for altitude 1000 meters.
Cart track here flattens and at the church of St Simon and Judah Tadej brings us to an asphalt road, on which past NOB monument we continue to the inscription box, which is located at the former mountain hut Planinsko zavetišče pri Knezu on Pernice.
From the crossing by the former mountain hut we continue right in the direction of Košenjak and St. Urban and at first ascending through the forest and then the path flattens, and the forest is for some time changed by partly grassy terrain. A little further, we reach the macadam road which we follow right towards Košenjak, on the nearby crossroad we continue on a slightly left upper road (slightly right farm Zgornji Čiček). A short time we still continue on the road, and then signs for Košenjak point us slightly left on a grassy cart track, on which we continue an ascent. Higher, we go from the mentioned cart track left, few minutes ahead we cross also a rough road. Next follows few minutes of a diagonal ascent, and then we reach the ridge of Kozji vrh, where there is a marked crossing.
From the crossing, we go left in the direction of Kozji vrh (right St. Urban and Košenjak), which we reach after less than a minute of additional walking.
Bistriški jarek - Pernice 1:50, Pernice - Kozji vrh 1:00. Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (November).

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

Trip can be extended to: Sveti Urban (above Kozji Vrh) ( 15 min) , Bivak Piramida (1 h 45 min) , Huhnerkogel/Košenjak (1 h 45 min)