Rebrca / Rechberg - Rokov vrh / Rochusberg (via Bukovnik)

Access to starting point:
A) Via the Ljubelj border crossing we drive to Austria, then in the settlement Podljubelj / Unterloibl we turn right in the direction of the Hofer store. When we arrive in Borovlje / Ferlach, at the crossroads slightly behind the railway line we turn left (to the right of the crossroads is the Eurospar store), at the next crossroads after a few hundred metres we turn right in the direction of Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. Towards Železna Kapla we drive to the settlement Jeriše / Jerischach, and behind the settlement at the crossroads we turn right in the direction of the settlement Podkraj / Unterort (left Goriče Goritschach). At the smaller crossroads in the middle of Podkraj we continue left, then we start to ascend to a smaller saddle, beside which there is a crossroads and a chapel. We park at a suitable place behind the chapel.
B) Via the Jezerski vrh border crossing we drive to Austria, then behind Železna Kapla we continue slightly left onto the road in the direction of the village Rebrca / Rechberg. Along the road we quickly ascend to the mentioned village, at the crossroads in the middle of the village we continue left. The road we continue on leads us towards the settlement Podkraj / Unterort, and then before the road starts to descend towards the mentioned place, we arrive at the chapel, in front of which we park at a suitable place beside the road.
C) We drive to Podjuno, then we follow the signs for Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. Behind the settlement Miklavčevo / Miklauzhof, we leave the road towards Železna Kapla and continue right in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt and Borovlje / Ferlach. We then drive along the main road towards Borovlje, but we do not drive on it for long, as the signs for Podkraj / Unterort direct us left onto a somewhat narrower road. At the smaller crossroads in the middle of Podkraj we continue left, then we start to ascend to a smaller saddle, beside which there is a crossroads and a chapel. We park at a suitable place behind the chapel.

Route description:
From the crossroads by the chapel we head onto the road in the direction of the settlement Suha / Zauchen, i.e. house numbers 16,17,18, 50, 54, 63 and 69; by the crossroads there are also signs for Obir. The road first leads us through the forest, then brings us out of the forest, and we follow it practically to its end at the Bukovnik / Bukownik homestead. Behind the last house we continue over the grazing fence, then the cart track takes us into the forest. Through the forest we ascend along the cart track (the cart track has a few poorly marked shortcuts higher up), along it we walk to the saddle between Rokov vrh / Rochus Berg on the left and Stara gora / Altberg on the right.
From the saddle, where there is an older chapel, we continue left (straight Setzhube, right Obir and Stara gora) in the direction of Rokov vrh / Rochusberg. The path ahead first continues along a poor road, but when the road ends we continue on a forest path that crosses fairly steep slopes. After a few minutes of traversing we arrive at a smaller saddle, behind which we start to ascend steeply along and beside the forested ridge, where a wooden fence assists us at some points. Higher up the path levels out and we join a forest road, along which in a few steps we reach a smaller crossroads. We continue right (left downhill to Rebrca, road branch to the left in picture no. 5), then immediately left onto the mountain path, which runs parallel to the road. A little further we return to the road, but at a smaller saddle we leave it and continue on the mountain path, to which a few steps further another, shorter path from Rebrca joins.
We continue straight and in a few steps ascend to the panoramic Rokov vrh.
Description and pictures refer to the conditions in 2017 (August and September).

Along the route: Setzhube (805m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Stara gora / Altberg, Eisenkappler Hutte

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