![]() It will also be the first step on difficult and very difficult mountain trail.įrom Raduha you will have to descent Savinja river valley (Savinjska dolina) and later climb to Ojstrica. In a day or two of very nice, sunny and panoramic walk (full of blueberris in late July and August) you will sleep in the hut below the first two thousander - Raduha. ![]() From there you »climb« (easy walk) to Uršlja gora and on the first Alpine ridge on your trail - Smrekovec (the only ex-vulcanic mountain in Slovenia). You will leave Pohorje behind after two or three days of easy walk along nice, fresh and dark spruce forests. The trail starts at city of Maribor from where you ascend to Pohorje hills. It leads through routes which can be classified in three groups, namely easy, demanding and very demanding routes. The trail has no restrictions in terms of time and is marked by means of the Knafelc blazes (white dot with a red circle around it and an Arabic number 1 - picture below). Hikers can begin or end the Slovenian Mountain Trail in Maribor, Debeli rtič or anywhere else. !« This is how Slovenia became the first European country to have a unique transversal trail. ![]() While performing trailblazing, it occured to him: »Why not connect all these spots by means of one single blazed trail which would extend further on, across the entire Slovenian territory. Professor Ivan Šumljak (1899-1984), a publicist, lecturer and head of the Maribor trailblazing unit, sent a written proposal for the mountain trail to the Slovenian Alpine Association as early as 1950. Here, everyone can find something for their own taste. Hiking across the Slovenian mountains started in 1953 with the path which was not only revealing its beautiful features but also taking the mountain hikers from the Pannonian plains across plateaus and hills all the way to the Slovenian coast. ![]() The Slovenian Mountain Trail is the longest transversal hiking trail/route in Slovenia and the first transversal hiking trail in Europe (from 1953). Until 1991, the Slovenian Mountain Trail was named the Slovenian Mountian Transversal. ![]()
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