Radlje ob Dravi - Kapunar / Kapunerkogel (on unmarked path)
Starting point: Radlje ob Dravi (374 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.6144°N 15.225°E
Path name: on unmarked path
Time of walking: 2 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 677 m
Altitude difference (by path): 685 m
Map: Pohorje - izletniška karta 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Dravograd, and then we continue driving towards Maribor. When we get to Radlje ob Dravi, from the crossroad between the stores Hofer and Lidl we turn left in the direction of the mountain pass Radelj and center of Radlje ob Dravi. We continue on the road which leads us through the center of the settlement (left Austria over mountain pass Radeljski prelaz), and there we drive to the parish church of St. Mihael, where by the road we notice red signposts. We park on one of the parking lots in Radlje ob Dravi, but carefully, because on some parking lots it is possible to park only to 2 hours.
B) From Maribor through the valley Dravska dolina we drive towards Dravograd, and we leave the main road before the settlement Radlje ob Dravi, where signs for the mentioned settlement point us to the right. Further, we drive past the cemetery, health center and police station, and then on the right near the parish church we notice red signposts. We park on one of the parking lots in Radlje ob Dravi, but carefully, because on some parking lots it is possible to park only to 2 hours.
Path description:
From the starting point, we go on the path in the direction of Župank and Kapunar, where we at first go past learning information board and past the parish church of St. Mihael, and a little further also past Rožni dvor (Rosenhof). The road on which we are ascending soon turns left, only few steps further blazes point us sharply right on a narrower road, and from there we go immediately left on at first fenced marked path. After few minutes of the ascent, we reach the macadam road, and we continue left upwards (straight upwards - marked path on Kapunar, right - path past Župank). Further, we walk on a wide cart track which soon joins the nearby trim trail. A wide footpath which leads on the western slopes of Perkolica, we follow to the spot, where trim footpath turns left and for some time descends to a vegetated torrent ditch. On the other side, we steeply ascend and we join the marked path E6, which we don't follow for long. After the trim trail exercise number 15 (pushups), the marked path turns a little to the left, and we continue slightly right, on an unmarked, but easy to follow beaten footpath which still continues through the forest and a little higher crosses a cart track. Higher, we cross a macadam road, and the beaten footpath is partly ascending on a cart track, and partly on a forest footpath. We eventually reach a marked path, which we at the water storage left, and there we ascend to a macadam road.
We follow the road to the right, and at the next crossroads we follow the blazes or signs for Kapunar. Next follows a relatively long walk on the macadam road which we follow to the former guardhouse, which is today used by amateur radio operators. From the guardhouse, where there is an inscription box, we continue sharply left in the direction of the mountain hut Kapunerhütte, and then on an appropriate place we leave the marked path and to the summit of Kapunar we ascend on one of several worse footpaths, which lead to the top.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (December).
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