Koprivna (Šumel) - Govca (Olševa) (via homestead Janšek)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Črna na Koroškem, then continue driving in the direction of Koprivna and Solčava. We then drive through the valley along the Meža River, and when we reach the crossroads where the road to Solčava branches off to the left, the described path starts. We park somewhere nearby at a suitable spot by the road.
B) We drive to Solčava, then follow the signs for Črna na Koroškem. There follows an ascent to the pass Spodnje Sleme, and from there a descent towards Črna na Koroškem and Koprivna. When we arrive in the valley at the crossroads with the road leading from Koprivna towards Črna na Koroškem, we are at the beginning of the described path. We park somewhere nearby at a suitable spot by the road.

Route description:
From the starting point we go on the road in the direction of Solčava, Podolševa and Logarska dolina, the signpost which used to be next to the road signs is now hidden nearby. The path at first leads past a few more houses, among other things past accommodations and the daytime bar Pri Mojci, and then the road passes into the forest and ascends through Janšekov graben. After a short ascent, we get to a junction, where the road splits, and we continue right in the direction of the footpath to Raduha.
Further, we walk on the road which leads towards the homestead Janšek, and we soon get to the bridge, where we cross the stream Janšekov graben. Before the bridge, a cart track branches off to the left, on which the path leads past the homestead Haderlap, and we continue straight. A little further, we step out of the forest and after the left hairpin turn quickly get to the homestead Janšek, from where a nice view opens up towards the church of St. Jakob and Peca.
After the homestead, we continue on the upper road, from it we go immediately right and then start to ascend by the edge of the hay meadow. On the upper edge of the hay meadow, we step on a cart track, and follow it to the right. From the poorer cart track which continues through the forest we soon go left, then at the junctions follow older blazes. We continue the ascent through the forest, where we follow barely visible paths, higher we approach a macadam road. Here we go straight, then reach a larger hay meadow at the former homestead Prodnik, where the path entirely vanishes. We continue to the upper edge of the hay meadow, where in the forest the blazes reappear, and through the forest we follow the blazes, the path mostly not being there. Higher an old pathlet appears, which ascends transversely to the forest road, where we reach the marked path from Spodnje Sleme.
We follow the road to the right (left Spodnje Sleme), on it we bypass Robnikov vrh (1392 m) on the left side, and occasionally a nice view opens up towards Raduha.
On the indistinct saddle Zgornje Sleme a path also joins from the right which leads past the church of St. Jakob, and we follow the signs for Olševa. We bypass the nearby pasture on the left side, above it we temporarily return to the cart track, from the cart track we go left onto the marked path which starts to ascend steeply through the forest. There follows a longer quite steep ascent on the path ascending through the forest, which also leads us past a trough with water that dries up in dry periods and past a natural hollow. The path levels out when we reach the ridge of Lepi vrh, but after a few minutes it starts ascending more steeply again, this time towards the panoramic Odenični hriber. When we reach the mentioned summit, we have before us a gentle path that leads us along the panoramic ridge of Olševa. On Gladki vrh an abandoned path also joins from the left which starts at the homestead Zgornji Ošovnik in Podolševa, after Visoka peč there follows some descent to the marked junction, where a marked path from Zadnji travnik, or the mountain home on the farm Kumer, also joins from the right.
We continue in the direction of Olševa on the path which starts ascending again, during the ascent crossing some short slopes that are mainly exposed to slipping when wet. Higher the sparse forest ends and the increasingly panoramic path brings us to the highest summit of Olševa in a few minutes of further walking.
Starting point - Zgornje Sleme 1:50, Zgornje Sleme - Lepi vrh 1:00, Lepi vrh - Odenični hriber 0:40, Odenični hriber - junction Visoka peč 0:25, junction Visoka peč - Govca 0:30.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2018 and 2019 (July).

Along the route: Janšek (935m), Prodnik (1125m), Zgornje Sleme (1310m), Lepi vrh (1619m), Odenični hriber (1863m), Gladki vrh (1850m), Visoka peč (1814m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Obel kamen (Olševa)

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