Kebelj - Črno jezero on Pohorje (via Sveti Trije Kralji)

Access to starting point:
We drive to Oplotnica (to here from Štajerska highway exit Slovenske Konjice or Slovenska Bistrica - south), and then we at first follow the signs for Osankarica, and then the signs for the settlement Kebelj. When we get to Kebelj from the center of the settlement, we turn left towards the cemetery, at which we then park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road which leads us on the upper northern side of the cemetery, and when after approximately 50 meters the road ends we continue right on a marked path (left - Oplotnica).
The path ahead leads us on a marked cart track which before the entrance into the forest turns right and continues by the edge of the forest, from the mentioned cart track, blazes point us to the left on a narrow cart track which continues through the forest. Through the forest, we follow the blazes, and when the path turns a little to the right, after a shorter crossing from the right joins also the other path from the settlement Kebelj.
Here we go left and we quickly get to the ruins of Kebelj castle or Castle Zajec.
We bypass the ruins on the left side and we follow the blazes to the nearby asphalt road, where we go straight upwards. Only a little further, the asphalt road on which we continue turns right, and to the left the path branches off towards Osankarica (path Kebeljska transverzala). We leave the asphalt road only a little further, where signs for lake Črno jezero point us to the left into the forest. Next follows a shorter ascent through the forest and then past a lot of litter we reach the nearby homestead (from the opposite direction there is also a warning for dangerous dog). At the homestead, the road becomes asphalted and we quickly return on a little wider asphalt road, on which we continue the ascent. After few minutes, the blazes point us to the left on a grassy cart track, on which we are ascending by the edge of the forest, and higher past the house we again step on the asphalt road which brings us to the next marked crossing.
We continue right in the direction of Sveti Trije kralji and lake Črno jezero (left - lake Črno jezero - path via Kos) and we continue on the road to a crossroad near the NOB monument.
From the crossroad, we go right towards the access path, and at the sign for dead-end street we go left on a marked footpath which continues through the forest. Next follows approximately 20 minutes of ascent through the forest, where we follow the blazes, and then we reach a road which we follow for few 10 strides to the right, where we get to Hotel Jakec, above which there is the church of Holy Three Kings.
From the church of Holy Three Kings we continue in the direction of the lake Črno jezero and the path Urškina pot and we quickly get to the nearby ski slope, by which we short time continue, and then we cross it (while the ski slope operates we cross the ski track and ski lift - above the cableway and ski slope). The path ahead leads us past the weather station ARSO, we still follow the blazes, and on the connecting ski path in few minutes we get to another ski track, which we also cross (by the ski slope upwards - Veliki vrh). Next follows also a crossing of a ski lift and one more ski track, and then the path comes into the forest, where after few minutes of additional walking, we get to the cross, by which there is a learning board of the path Urškina pot. The path ahead slowly descends and it brings us to a marked crossing, where we choose the left path (straight - Šumik and Ruška koča), where we continue in the direction of Osankarica and lake Črno jezero. Further, we are still gently to moderately descending and we follow the blazes. When the descent ends, we get to a crossing near the lake Črno jezero.
We continue straight (left Oplotnica - path via Kos) and in few steps we get to the lake.
Kebelj - Castle Zajec 0:20, Castle Zajec - Sveti Trije Kralji 1:20, Sveti Trije Kralji - lake Črno jezero 0:50.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in April 2022.

On the way: Kebelj castle (Castle Zajec) (813m), Nadgrad (851m), Sveti Trije kralji (1181m)