Pod Peco / Koprein-Petzen - Govca (Olševa) (via Kumer)

Access to starting point:
A) Via the border crossing Jezerski vrh or Pavličev vrh we drive to Bela / Bad Vellach, and from there we continue driving towards Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. At the beginning of Železna Kapla we notice signs for Lepena / Leppen, which point us to the right. Further, we drive on a somewhat narrower asphalt road, which leads us first along the bottom of the valley, and then at the hamlet Koprivna / Koprein - Sonnseite it starts to ascend more steeply. Higher up, we arrive at the hamlet Pod Peco / Koprein - Petzen, where the starting point of the path to Topica / Topitza and the inn Riepl are located. Here we continue straight on the initially still asphalted road, which further leads past the church of all faiths. A little above the church the asphalt ends, and the road starts to descend. After a short descent we arrive at a smaller crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Peca and St. Ana (ahead on the main road Globasnica / Globasnitz). From the crossroad we drive only a short time longer, then we arrive at a gate near which we park in a suitable spot.
B) From Dravograd or Slovenj Gradec we drive to Ravne na Koroškem, then we continue driving in the direction of the border crossing Holmec. When we enter Austria we first drive towards Pliberk / Bleiburg, then we follow the signs for Globasnica / Globasnitz. After approximately 13 km from the border crossing Holmec we arrive in Globasnica, from where we continue driving left towards the upper part of the place. From Globasnica we continue on a narrower and ascending road in the direction of the hamlet Pod Peco / Koprein - Petzen. Further on we ascend alongside Globaška grapa for quite some time, then the road brings us to an indistinct saddle, where we arrive at a smaller crossroad. Here, where we notice signs for Peca, we continue left onto a side road, along which we quickly descend to the nearby gate near which we park in a suitable spot.

Path description:
From the parking lot we continue past the gate and along the road in a few minutes descend to the crossroad at the edge of the mountain pasture Spodnja Luža.
Here the marked Austrian path branches off to the left towards Peca or Bistriška špica, and we continue straight in the direction of the mountain hut on the Kumer farm. The path ahead leads us across a vast mountain pasture, then it passes along the edge of the forest and splits into two parts. We choose the lower poorer road, along which along the edge of the forest we descend to the state border and also cross it. After a few meters of walking on the Slovenian side we join a wider macadam road, and we continue the descent along it. Somewhat lower we continue right upwards on the marked cart track towards St. Ana and the mountain hut on the Kumer farm (straight ahead the road continues towards Koprivna and the marked path towards Peca). After a short ascent the cart track along which we continue flattens, then continues across to the left. At the end of the traverse there follows a short descent to the nearby road, along which we walk to the nearby mountain hut.
From the hut we continue in the direction of Olševa, and the path ahead still leads along the road. Behind the hut we first bypass a chapel, a little further a cross, later also a smaller hunting observation post. When the road, which continues without major changes in elevation, enters the forest it splits into two parts, and we continue along the upper right road in the direction of Olševa (slightly left the church of St. Ana with the Black Madonna 2 minutes). Further on we ascend slightly to moderately, then, after a somewhat more pronounced right bend, the road flattens and brings us out of the forest onto the mountain pasture Rep or Repija.
Behind the mountain pasture the road descends slightly, then behind the left bend it splits. We continue along the slightly right road, which further traverses upwards, then quickly ends and turns into a mountain path. We continue the path through the forest, walking across to the left without major changes in elevation. Across two ant hills the passage is somewhat awkward, as it slips on the pine needles of the ant hills, otherwise the crossing is undemanding. When the slope flattens we quickly arrive at the pasture fence, where along the path we notice a warning that there is a fierce bull on the mountain pasture. We cross the pasture fence and step out of the forest, where a nice view opens towards Olševa, and the trail in this section becomes somewhat harder to follow. During the crossing of the mountain pasture we keep somewhat more to the right, then we arrive at a strip of forest, where we descend to the livestock trough. When above the trough we step out of the forest we still keep more to the right, then the path, which runs near the state border, starts to turn left. The cross that we see in the middle of the mountain pasture we bypass quite a bit higher along the right side of the mountain pasture. When the marked path returns to the forest, soon a poorer cart track branches off to the right, along which it is possible to continue towards Špičasti vrh / Spitzberg, and we continue straight along the wider cart track, along which we quickly arrive at a sort of parking lot on Zadnji travnik.
From the unregulated parking lot we continue left in the direction of Olševa along the path that continues on the cart track and which enters the forest after just a few meters. For about 3 minutes we walk along the cart track, then the blazes direct us slightly left onto a beaten footpath marked with arrows. A little higher the blazes reappear, and the path returns to the cart track. We continue the ascent along a gradually steeper cart track, which higher flattens somewhat and turns right. From the point where the cart track turns right, we walk along it only a few tens of meters more, then the blazes direct us left onto the again steeper footpath, which quickly brings us to the Foršnerc hunting bivouac.
From the hunting bivouac we continue straight and then after a few meters left uphill. Further on the path starts to ascend more steeply through a partly larch forest, which thins out higher up. After a few minutes of ascent the path flattens and brings us into a smaller cirque. There follow a few minutes of moderate ascent, then the path becomes somewhat steeper again, leading us across increasingly panoramic shady slopes of Olševa. Higher the path turns left and ascends across to a smaller gully, along which over scree we climb to the ridge of Olševa.
We reach the ridge at a marked junction, where we continue right in the direction of Govca, the highest peak of the aforementioned ridge (left the Spodnje Sleme saddle and Raduha). The path ahead continues along the left, mostly southern side of the ridge, where it crosses some steeper and at two points also exposed slopes (especially in wet conditions and snow there is a risk of slipping). Further on the slope flattens somewhat, and the path ascends somewhat more steeply. With nice views towards the mountains above Logarska dolina we quickly reach a sort of side ridge, along which in a few minutes we climb to the main ridge of Olševa. Here the path turns left and after a few tens of steps of further walking brings us to Govca.
Starting point - planina Luža 5 minutes, planina Luža - Kumer 40 minutes, Kumer - Repija 45 minutes, Repija - Govševa planina 1:00, Govševa planina - Zadnji travnik 15 minutes, Zadnji travnik - Govca 1:45.

On the way: Planina Luža (1250m), Planinski dom na kmetiji Kumer (1220m), Sveta Ana v Koprivni (1218m), Planina Rep (Repija) (1330m), Govševa planina (1300m), Zadnji travnik (1382m), Lovski bivak Foršnerca (1550m)

Trip can be extended to: Obel kamen (Olševa)