Slivnica pri Mariboru - Ledinekov kogel (western path)

Access to starting point:
We drive to Slivnica pri Mariboru, where at the Slivnica Kindergarten the described path begins. We park in a suitable parking lot nearby, but some parking spaces are reserved solely for kindergarten employees and visitors. We can also park a few minutes away by the cemetery.

Path description:
The beginning of the described path leads through an area where staying is prohibited between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
By the kindergarten, we notice signposts for the Mariborska koča, which direct us to a path that continues to the left of the kindergarten, then we proceed alongside the sports fields. After a few minutes, we leave the restricted area and arrive at Slivnica Castle, which is in an abandoned and decaying state, but we continue to the left, and behind a nearby house, we veer slightly to the right onto a marked path that ascends diagonally above the road. After a short diagonal ascent, from where a view opens up to the surrounding settlements, we return to the asphalt road, follow it to the right, enter the forest, and shortly after reach a marked junction, where we continue to the right on a marked road. Just a little further, the road splits again, but this time we choose the upper road, which leads us past a few more houses before it ends, and we continue the ascent on a cart track that climbs through the forest.
Higher up, we reach the edge of the forest, where we bypass a nearby farm on the right side, then arrive at a macadam road on which we continue, or partly follow a parallel marked path. Higher up, we leave the forest, and a beautiful view opens up, with the city of Maribor clearly visible to the right below. When we reach an asphalt road a little further on, we turn left, and from the next junction in the settlement of Šestdobe, we enter a dead-end street, follow it for a few steps, then turn right and ascend onto a forested ridge.
When we return to the asphalt road, we continue to the left, and a few minutes further, at a wooden sculpture, we join the marked path from Fram.
We continue straight towards the Mariborska koča (left Fram) and ascend moderately, mostly through the forest; when we leave the forest, we descend to the Plahutnik farm, where we continue straight from the junction on a marked cart track that climbs over hayfields. Higher, we cross a strip of forest and arrive at the hospital for lung diseases, behind which we cross a wider asphalt road. We again ascend through a strip of forest, and when we return to a wider road we follow it to the right, and from it just before the left bend we go left on a cart track which cuts the mentioned longer bend. When we reach the road again we cross it once more and ascend a few steps to a macadam road, which we follow left upwards. There follows some ascent on the macadam road, which soon flattens and leads us past the Planinka hut and a few houses to Petkovo sedlo saddle, where there is a marked junction.
On Petkovo sedlo saddle, we join the path from Pivola, and the path splits. Along a slightly left road, the path continues toward the Skalca waterfall; slightly to the right, a road leads to hotel Tisa; to the right, a path leads to a hunting hut, but we continue straight toward Mariborska koča.
We continue through a meadow between two roads, then the path enters the forest, where we follow the blazes. Higher up, we cross the main road toward hotel Bellevue once more, and a little further, we leave the forest. We continue past a cross, and when we reach the asphalt road from the marked junction, we proceed left towards Mariborska koča, arriving there in a few minutes of further walking.
We bypass the Mariborska koča hut on the left side, and behind the hut, we return to the road. On the road, we start ascending, and at the first junction we continue straight in the direction of Ruška koča na Arehu, and at the second we go slightly right (slightly left Areh). Some ascent follows on a macadam road and we arrive at the saddle west of Ledinekov kogel, where there is a marked junction.
We continue right in the direction of Bolfenka and Razgledni stolp (left Ruška koča, straight Pečke and Log, sharply right fenced area below Ledinekov kogel) and on the macadam road we ascend to the indistinct summit in a few minutes.
Starting point - Mariborska koča 3:00, Mariborska koča - Ledinekov kogel 0:30.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in the years 2022, 2023, and 2025.

On the way: Slivniško Pohorje (726m), Petkovo sedlo (881m), Mariborska koča (1086m)