Spodnje Sleme - Obel kamen (Olševa)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Luče, then continue driving towards Logarska dolina. In the settlement Solčava, before the bridge over the river Savinja we leave the road towards Logarska dolina and continue right in the direction of Podolševa and Črna na Koroškem. After approximately 5 km of ascent we arrive at a crossroads, where we go right in the direction of Črna na Koroškem. There follows some more mostly traversing ascent and we arrive at the mountain pass Spodnje Sleme, where we park.
B) We drive to Črna na Koroškem, then continue driving in the direction of Koprivna and Solčava. Further on, we drive for some time along the valley beside the river Meža, then we go left in the direction of Solčava and Logarska dolina. There follows an ascent to the mountain pass Spodnje Sleme, where we park.
C) Via the border crossing Pavličev Vrh we drive into Slovenia and begin descending towards Solčava. Soon after the mountain hut Majerhold we go left in the direction of Podolševa and Solčavska panoramic road. On the panoramic road we drive past the church of the Holy Spirit, a few kilometers further we go left in the direction of Črna na Koroškem. There follows some more mostly traversing ascent and we arrive at the mountain pass Spodnje Sleme, where we park.

Path description:
From the mountain pass Spodnje Sleme we head onto the marked path in the direction of Olševa, where we first walk on a gently sloping macadam road to which the path from Koprivna (path past the Prodnik homestead) soon joins. Further on we bypass Robnikov vrh (1392 m) on the left side, and occasionally a nice view opens towards Raduha.
On the indistinct saddle Zgornje Sleme a path also joins from the right that leads past the church of St. Jakob, but we follow the signs for Olševa. We bypass the nearby pasture on the left side, above it we temporarily return to the cart track, from the cart track we go left onto the marked path that begins steeply ascending through the forest. There follows a longer quite steep ascent on the path ascending through the forest, which also leads us past a trough with water that dries up in dry periods and past a natural cavity. The path flattens when we reach the ridge of Lepi vrh, but already after a few minutes it begins to ascend more steeply again, this time towards the panoramic Odenični hriber. When we reach the mentioned summit we have before us a gentle path that leads us along the panoramic ridge of Olševa. On Gladki vrh an abandoned path also joins from the left that begins at the Zgornji Ošovnik homestead in Podolševa, after Visoka peč follows some descent to the marked junction, where from the right also joins the marked path from Zadnji travnik, or the mountain hut at the Kumer farm.
We continue in the direction of Olševa on the path that begins ascending again, during the ascent crossing a few short slopes mainly exposed to slipping when wet. Higher the sparse forest ends and the increasingly panoramic path brings us in a few minutes of further walking to the highest summit of Olševa.
From Govca we start descending along the panoramic ridge, then the path turns left downward from the ridge and quickly brings us to a marked junction. We continue right in the direction towards Obel kamen (straight downward Potočka zijalka and Podolševa), where first we cross the slopes to the left, then we begin steeply ascending. The last part of the ascent before reaching the ridge is technically more demanding and is not protected. Above the short demanding section we reach the panoramic ridge along and beside which we continue all the way to Obel kamen, which we recognize by the border stone with No. XXII 1.
From the top we can continue to the approximately 10 minutes distant cross, where there is also the registration box.
Spodnje Sleme - Zgornje Sleme 0:25, Zgornje Sleme - Lepi vrh 1:00, Lepi vrh - Odenični hriber 0:40, Odenični hriber - junction Visoka peč 0:25, junction Visoka peč - Govca 0:30, Govca - Obel kamen 0:30.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2018 (July and August).

On the way: Zgornje Sleme (1310m), Lepi vrh (1619m), Odenični hriber (1863m), Gladki vrh (1850m), Visoka peč (1814m), Govca (Olševa) (1929m)