Brezno - Sršenov vrh (by Brezniški potok)

Access to starting point:
From the road Maribor - Dravograd we drive to the settlement Brezno, where we park in the settlement. Best at the cemetery near the parish church of St. Mary of the Assumption.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we walk to the road which continues north from the church and further leads along the stream Brezniški potok. By the stream Brezniški potok we ascend for approximately one hour, then arrive at a marked crossroad, where we continue straight towards Kapla (left Remšnik). A few dozen meters further, we veer slightly right onto a road that ascends diagonally across the slope (straight one of the paths towards Sveti Pankracij). A little further, we leave the forest, and the path leads us past a few houses. Signs for Kapla then direct us left from the road, where we cut through the forest along a marked cart track, shortening a longer left turn. After a few minutes, we return to the road and follow it left to a nearby fork, where we choose the lower left path (slightly right the homestead Renat Pušnik-Pečnik). This path leads through a strip of forest, and after leaving the forest, we pass a solitary farm, continuing with beautiful views to a marked junction by a chapel.
We continue right towards Kapla (straight Sveti Pankracij), initially crossing a scenic slope before the poorer road enters the forest. When the road stops ascending, blazes guide us slightly right onto a cart track that descends moderately at first, then more steeply lower down, making two hairpin turns. When the path levels out, we pass two houses and reach the valley of the stream Potočnikov potok, where we turn left. Along the asphalt road, we gently ascend past a few houses, then blazes direct us right, where we climb onto a cart track near a house, ascending alongside a torrential stream. After a few minutes of climbing beside the stream, the marked path turns left and ascends diagonally to a macadam road, which we follow to the right. The road soon leaves the forest and leads us over grassy slopes past a nearby farm. Higher up, grassy and forested areas alternate, and the path takes us past several farms. At crossroads, we follow the blazes.
After the farm Kašman-Kogal, we veer slightly right onto a side road, where the blazes continue. After a short ascent, we reach a small saddle, where the marked path towards Zgornja Kapla continues straight and begins descending. We, however, proceed slightly right along the road, which continues ascending and is briefly unmarked.
We soon reach a point where the marked path Zgornja Kapla - Sršenov vrh crosses the road we are on. We turn right and continue along the marked path. After few minutes, we return on the asphalt road and we follow it to the right, and there we go past the homestead Pokržnik, and after the homestead on the left (eastern) side we cross also Pokržnikov vrh, from where a view opens up towards the transmitters on Sršenov vrh. Next follows some easy descent and on the right side a nice view opens up, which reaches to Koroška two-thousanders, and in good visibility we can see even further.
On the mentioned panoramic part, the path stops descending and then it lightly ascends to the forest, where signs for Sršenov vrh point us to the left in the forest. Next follows a shorter steeper ascent through a quite dense forest, and higher we reach a cart track and we follow it to the right. The cart track quickly brings us to the next asphalt road which we cross diagonally towards the right, and then we go slightly left into the forest, through which we continue on a marked path. A little higher, at the smaller crossroad we reach another road, and we go left on the upper road, and from there we go after few steps right. Follows only a shorter moderate ascent and we get to transmitters on Sršenov vrh.
The description and images refer to the conditions in 2022 and 2023.