Koča na Pikovem - Dom na Peci (via saddle Vrh šteng)
Starting point: Koča na Pikovem (992 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4892°N 14.8364°E 
Path name: via saddle Vrh šteng
Time of walking: 2 h 45 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 673 m
Altitude difference (by path): 715 m
Map: Koroška 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We drive to Črna na Koroškem, and then we follow the signs for Podpeca and later Koča na Pikovem. We park on a parking lot near the mountain hut Koča na Pikovem.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we walk to the church of St. Helena and mountain hut Koča na Pikovem, after that behind the church we continue left on the path in the direction of Veliki vrh. The path ahead leads us on a worse macadam road which at first runs through the forest and then through meadows, from which a beautiful view opens up. Behind the homestead Pik the road changes into a cart track, and by the edge of the forest path to Pikov vrh branches off to the right (also on Veliki vrh). Next follows shorter gently sloping ascent through the forest and the path brings us to religious symbol, where another path branches off to the right on Pikov vrh, and we continue on the path which gradually starts lightly descending.
We quickly get to a smaller crossing, where we continue left (straight one of the paths in Mežica), on the nearby next crossing we go straight (right Mežica).
The path ahead brings us by the edge of a panoramic meadow, from which a nice view opens up, and a little ahead we return into the forest. Next follows traversing of Jesenik, and when we reach the forest road we follow it to the right, and there in few minutes we get to a saddle Vrh šteng, where we join the path Mežica - Peca.
From Vrh Šteng we continue in the direction of the mountain hut Dom na Peci and we walk on the road, on which we are barely descending. The path ahead leads us over short panoramic part, from where a nice view opens up on a forested Jesenik and surrounding hills and past the former border guardhouse, which we bypass on the bottom side. A little after guardhouse on Terčovo we continue right on a marked cart track (turn off from the road to the right and not from guardhouse), and from which after a short ascent, we go left on a marked footpath. Further, we are ascending through the forest, and quite quickly we get by the edge of larger mountain pasture Rišperk. Here the path turns slightly left and higher few times crosses a forest road. Higher, we stay on the road and there we cross the slopes towards the left to its end, or spot where changes into a cart track. From the cart track a nice view opens up all the way to Uršlja gora, at the cottage Tomaževa koča, which is situated left below us, we join the path from Podpeca.
From the crossing, we continue right in the direction of the mountain hut Dom na Peci and further we are ascending on quite a steep cart track. Cart track, which is then mostly ascending diagonally towards the left, we then follow all the way to the mountain hut Dom na Peci.
Koča na Pikovem - Vrh šteng 45 minutes, Vrh šteng - Tomaževa koča 1:10, Tomaževa koča - Dom na Peci 50 minutes.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (April and May).
On the way: Vrh šteng (1030m), Tomaževa koča (1345m)
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