Fram - Ledinekov kogel (via Petkovo sedlo, western way)

Access to starting point:
We leave the Štajerska motorway at the Fram exit and follow the signs for Fram. When we reach the main road Slovenska Bistrica - Maribor, from the traffic-light intersection we continue straight and drive into the centre of Fram. We continue through the settlement, and when we arrive at the parking lot below the parish church of St. Anne, we park on the parking lot in the centre of the settlement.

Path description:
From the starting point, we turn right onto the road towards Mariborska koča (straight to Ruška koča na Arehu), and at the nearby intersection we go left towards Ranče and begin to ascend along the Framski potok stream. When the road to Ranče turns right, we continue straight onto a side road along which the blazes continue and along which there are signs for the fish farm. There follow a few more smaller intersections, where we follow the blazes; when we move away from the stream, the road soon loses its asphalt surface. Higher up, we pass by a cross and an older house, then we descend slightly; before the gate, we go slightly right onto a footpath that ascends transversely across the steep slope. The path continues along a cart track; when the path turns right, we quickly leave the forest and ascend to the settlement of Ranče, where we reach an asphalt road.
We continue through the village; from the intersection by Gostišče Meglič we go left. We continue ascending along the asphalt road, following the blazes; higher up, we leave the asphalt road to the left onto a macadam road, along which we walk to the intersection of newer logging trails and roads. Here we carefully follow the blazes to choose the correct cart track to continue; we ascend along the cart track to the summit of Sedovec, from which a short descent leads to an asphalt road, which we reach at a wooden sculpture.
We continue left towards Mariborska koča (right Slivnica) and ascend moderately, mostly through the forest; when we leave the forest, we descend to the Plahutnik farm, where from the intersection we continue straight onto a marked cart track that ascends across the hay meadow. Higher up, we cross a strip of forest and arrive at the hospital for lung diseases, behind which we cross a wider asphalt road. We ascend again through a strip of forest; when we return to the wider road, we follow it to the right, from it before the left bend we go left onto a cart track that cuts the mentioned longer bend. When we reach it again, we cross it once more and after a few steps ascend to a macadam road, which we follow left uphill. There follows some ascent along the macadam road; the road soon levels out and takes us past the Planinka hut and a few houses to Petkovo sedlo, where there is a marked junction.
At Petkovo sedlo we join the path from Pivola, and the path branches. Along the slightly left road, the path continues towards the Skalca waterfall; slightly to the right a road leads to hotel Tisa; to the right a path leads to the hunting hut, but we continue straight towards Mariborska koča.
We continue across a meadow between two roads, then the path enters the forest, where we follow the blazes. Higher up we cross the main road to hotel Bellevue once more; a little further on we leave the forest. We continue past a cross; when we reach the asphalt road, from the marked junction we continue left towards Mariborska koča, to which we arrive in a few minutes of further walking.
We bypass the koča on the left side; behind the koča we return to the road. Along the road we begin to ascend; at the first intersection we continue straight towards Ruška koča na Arehu, at the second slightly right (slightly left Areh). There follows some more ascent along the macadam road and we arrive at the pass west of Ledinekov kogel, where there is a marked junction.
We continue right towards Bolfenk and Razgledni stolp (left Ruška koča, straight Pečke and Log, sharply right fenced area below Ledinekov kogel) and along the macadam road ascend to the indistinct summit in a few minutes.
Starting point - Mariborska koča 3:00, Mariborska koča - Ledinekov kogel 0:30.
The description and images refer to the conditions in 2022 and 2023.

On the way: Ranče (525m), Slivniško Pohorje (726m), Petkovo sedlo (881m), Mariborska koča (1086m)