Bistriški jarek (Glasbeni dom) - Huhnerkogel/Košenjak (via Bivak Piramida)

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 a little behind the bus stop and 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 in the direction of Muta; we turn left at the marked intersection, 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 caption 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 already cross Mučko Bistrico, a little after the Tuš store, we turn right in the direction of the settlement Muta 1. The path ahead brings us to Muta, where at intersections we follow the priority road; from a somewhat larger intersection, we go left, so that further on we drive towards Gortina. A little after the settlement Muta ends, from the marked intersection we turn right in the direction of 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 caption 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 Sedelnik waterfall and St. Jernej), from the road we go immediately a little more left on a cart track. On the cart track, we ascend to the nearby farm, where we go behind the house left on a marked cart track. The cart track first ascends transversely towards the left, then turns right; after the bend, we leave it and continue slightly right on a 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 which leads to the nearby homestead Abram. Above the homestead, we again continue on a cart track, and the path brings us to a nicely arranged chapel, above which the path temporarily becomes a little steeper. The path ahead leads us along the power line route, higher we cross a wider road once again. Further on, the path leads us also past the homestead Hribernik, above which the path gradually enters the forest. There follows a few minutes of ascent through the forest, then we arrive at the pastures below the church of St. Simon and Jude Tadeus, 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 Mountain Shelter Planinsko zavetišče pri Knezu, where there is an inscription box.
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 St. Urban). The road which we continue on bypasses on the right side the Dom krajanov Pernice and sports field, further it leads us through the forest and past individual farms, from which on grassy slopes a nice view opens up. At junctions we continue straight in the direction of Ojstrica or. Path of Giant Limes, after some time the path leads us also past a chapel and NOB monument.
At the first intersection after the Lunčko farm, to which we arrive after approximately 15 minutes of walking from the mentioned farm (the Lunčko farm is located at the chapel and NOB monument), to the right branches a forest road towards St. Urban and Bogatec farm, and we from here still continue on the wider macadam road which leads towards Ojstrica. There follows also the crossing of Potoški graben, then before the Lonhtar farm we continue right on the marked path towards Košenjak.
The path ahead leads us along a wider newer track, on which we ascend quite steeply, then we go left on a marked path, which higher returns to the wider track. There follow some more junctions, where we follow the blazes, then through a somewhat sparser forest we reach the hunting hut Bivak Piramida.
Above the hut we continue right and walk on a gentle path which crosses gentle slopes. During the crossing, the path leads us past Volčji kamen, which a stonemason was carving for a millstone, but he was a victim of a wolf attack during the work, so the millstone was not completed. A little further we arrive at a marked junction, where we join the path which leads past St. Urban, and we continue left towards Košenjak. Further on we ascend for quite some time along and beside the state border; when the forest thins out even more, the path leading past Dom na Košenjaku joins us from the left.
We continue straight and after one minute of further walking we arrive at the top of Košenjak.
Bistriški jarek - Pernice 1:45, Pernice - Bivak Piramida 2:20, Bivak Piramida - Košenjak 0:40.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in the year 2018 (November).

On the way: Sv. Simon in Juda Tadej (Pernice) (1059m), Bivak Piramida (1395m)