Prevalje - Hom (above Prevalje)

Access to starting point:
From Mežica, border crossing Holmec or Ravne na Koroškem, we drive to Prevalje, where between the stores Hofer and Eurospin, at the inn Gostilna Brančurnik, we turn onto a side road which continues towards the south. At the spot where we leave the main road, there are signposts for Uršlja gora, and we park only a little further on a larger macadam parking lot.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the asphalt road in the direction of Uršlja gora. At first we walk along the Barbarski potok stream, and at the crossroads we follow the signs for Uršlja gora. Higher up, a nice view opens up on Uršlja gora and Hom, and when looking back also on Peca. In the middle of the village Podkraj, at the religious symbol, the path turns right and continues on the macadam road. From the macadam road, we soon go slightly left onto a marked footpath which continues through the forest. While walking through the forest, the path leads us past Krištanov križ, and then we return to the road, which we follow at the crossroads in the direction of Uršlja gora.
Higher, the path from Ravne na Koroškem joins from the left. We still follow the signs for Uršlja gora and Naravske ledine. After the homestead Savinc, on the part where the road crosses two successive streams, the path splits.
We continue on the right path in the direction of Naravske ledine past Godec (further on the road Uršlja gora and Naravske ledine on the road). The path continues on a cart track, the latter along the stream. A little further, we cross the stream and continue sharply right and diagonally ascend on a cart track to the macadam road. When we reach the road, we continue sharply left (right homestead Ljubenc), and then along the road we arrive at a larger meadow located below the summit of Hom. Here the road turns left and returns into the forest. There follow a few minutes of ascent on the road, and then we arrive at a crossroads, where we continue on the right road, where the blazes end (the mountain path continues between the left and right road).
We continue in the direction of Obretanovo and farm Kovs, where along a gently sloping road we quickly arrive from the forest to the already mentioned meadow below Hom. We walk to a smaller saddle, where to the right a road branches off to the farm Kovs, and we continue slightly right on a wide cart track which continues left of the religious symbol. After a few steps, we go from the cart track slightly right onto an older cart track, along which we begin to ascend the slope straight upwards. Higher, we cross a newer cart track, and we continue on the old, partly already overgrown cart track. We follow this steep path, which runs through the forest and from which only occasionally a small view opens towards the west, to the summit of Hom, where there is an inscription box.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in the year 2018 (April).