Velacher Kotschna/Belska Kočna - Vellacher Turm/Storžek

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Jezersko, and then we continue driving in the direction of Austria. The road from Jezersko in few hairpin turns ascends to the border crossing Jezerski vrh, and from there in numerous zig-zags starts descending steeper. Lower at settlement Bela / Bad Velach, we come at the marked crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Belska Kočna / Velacher Kotschna. The road ahead crosses the stream Bela and only few meters ahead brings us to the next crossroad. Here we continue straight on the right road and we continue driving by the already mentioned stream. We follow this road to the settled parking lot by the gate, which is preventing further driving.
Possible is also access over saddle Pavličevo sedlo. In this case, at settlement Bela we continue left. Further, we follow the description above.
Because of construction of new forest road (data from the year 2009) on the mountain pasture Jenkova planina, parking lot by gate can be full of timber, therefore we park already a little lower on an appropriate place by the road.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road, and after 3 minutes of walking, it brings us to a crossing. We continue straight, further on the road in the direction of the valley Logarska dolina (right Goli vrh). We follow a gently sloping road a little less than 20 minutes to the spot, where the marked path branches off to the left upwards. Further, we are ascending on at first a wide path, which through the forest in a moderate ascent brings us to a torrent stream, where the path turns right, crosses the stream and then brings us to a secured part of the path.
With the help of steel cables we ascend on a slightly exposed ridge, which is short and snowless undemanding. The path ahead is ascending among the bushes with beautiful views on the surrounding peaks. We notice the most sharp Storžek, to which we are getting closer. Ahead path runs past a pleasant well after which we soon get to an old hunting cottage, which is surrounded by a lush vegetation.
The path is then ascending for some time among a bushes and a thin forest, after which we step into the arms of larches. Terrain ahead is becoming more and more rocky and larches are getting replaced by scree, which is because of a shady side quite long under the snow. On the scree leads us pretty steep and a more panoramic path which leads us towards the saddle Savinjsko sedlo. Few minutes before the saddle we will on the right side of the path notice a large caption on the rock “Klettersteig”. Here we leave the path towards the saddle Savinjsko sedlo and we go right upwards on a little less beaten footpath. The path which is further marked with red dots, soon brings us to the entry of a climbing part of the path. Climbing path at first with the help of steel cables and stemples crosses a steep eastern slope of the mountain towards the north. The path then turns to the left and steeply ascends by the steel cable upwards. Later, the path brings us on a steep partly grassy slope, where caution is needed because the path is often slippery. In the last part of the path, we turn to the left and a short ascent follows on unsecured slope towards the summit.

On the way: Lovska koča Presteralše (1469m)