Rebrca / Rechberg - Stara gora / Altberg (via Rokov vrh)

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 intersection slightly behind the railway track we turn left (the Eurospar store is to the right of the intersection), at the next intersection after a few hundred meters we turn right in the direction of Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. Towards Železna Kapla we drive to the settlement Jeriše / Jerischach, behind the settlement at the intersection we turn right in the direction of the settlement Podkraj / Unterort (left Goriče Goritschach). At the smaller intersection in the middle of Podkraj we continue left, then we start ascending to a smaller saddle, beside which there is an intersection and a chapel. Here we continue straight, only a little further we arrive in the settlement Rebrca / Rechberg, where we park on the parking lot by the grassy football pitch.
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 then quickly ascend to the mentioned village, at the intersection in the middle of the village we continue left. We park on the parking lot by the football pitch.
C) We drive to Podjuna, 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 towards Celovec / Klagenfurt and Borovlje / Ferlach. Further on we drive along the main road towards Borovlje, but we do not drive along it for long, as the signs for Podkraj / Unterort direct us left onto a somewhat narrower road. At the smaller intersection in the middle of Podkraj we continue left, then we start ascending to a smaller saddle, beside which there is an intersection and a chapel. Here we continue straight, only a little further we arrive in the settlement Rebrca / Rechberg, where we park on the parking lot by the grassy football pitch.

Path description:
At the starting point signs for Rokov vrh / Rochusberg direct us onto a side road, along which we quickly ascend to the church and cemetery in Rebrca. We bypass both on the left side, then behind the shed we continue on a footpath that mostly continues through the forest. After a few minutes of mostly moderate ascent, the path splits, and we choose the upper right path (straight Setzhube). There follows a few minutes of steep ascent, and the path flattens when we reach the cart track, along which without major changes in altitude we continue to the junction.
From the junction we go right, initially slightly downhill, then we walk along the cart track that crosses the slopes to the right. When the cart track ends we continue on the again steeper mountain path, to which a little below the summit the path past the Bukovnik homestead also joins.
Here we go right and in a few steps we reach the panoramic Rokov vrh.
From the top we return to the last junction, then we continue straight to the nearby forest road. From the road we soon go right, then for a short time we continue parallel to the road. A little further we return to the road, then from the intersection we continue straight onto a worse road, from it we then go slightly right onto the footpath that continues along the ridge. Initially we walk parallel to the road, then we start to descend steeply. Lower we reach a smaller saddle, where the path passes to the left side of the nearby steep slope. There follows crossing the steep slope, then we reach a worse road, which we follow to the marked junction by the old chapel, where the path past Bukovnik joins us.
We continue slightly right (left Setzhube, right Bukovnik) in the direction of the old signs for Ojstrc and Stara gora. The path, which until now has still been relatively easy to follow, becomes more overgrown further on, and soon it also splits. Straight ahead the more overgrown marked path towards Obir continues, while we continue right onto the less overgrown but further unmarked path that leads to Stara gora. Although the path further on is not marked, occasionally some marks in the form of Austrian blazes can be noticed, only the colors are different, namely white, black, and white again, and most of the time marks with fluorescent spray can also be noticed.
From the junction onwards the path enters the forest and starts to ascend more steeply. On sections quite overgrown but mostly followable, the path higher reaches the cart track, where it flattens; we soon leave the cart track, then for a short time continue parallel to the cart track. Somewhat further we temporarily touch the cart track, and the path then becomes steeper again. Further on we ascend somewhat left of the ridge, gradually approaching the forest road, but we do not step onto it. The path soon returns to the ridge, then continues somewhat left of the ridge along some kind of old, partly overgrown clearing. There follows a steep ascent, and when higher we approach the cliff, the path temporarily turns somewhat left. Above the cliff by the path we notice a large crack, we continue along the right side of the crack, behind the crack the path turns left and approaches the forest road again. There follows a somewhat less steep ascent along the still followable but occasionally overgrown path. Higher we approach the road once more, and from the ridge path occasionally some views open up. Somewhat further by the path we notice a natural window with a vertical entrance, the path a little higher flattens and brings us to a smaller clearing with a salt lick. At the salt lick we approach the road for the last time, then we follow the ridge path that runs through the forest all the way to the top of Stara gora.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2017 (August and September).

On the way: Rokov vrh / Rochusberg (880m), Setzhube (805m)