Overview  East (with Skuta on the left)  Northeast, above Okrešelj  Northwest, Križ and Kranjska Rinka
Rinke is a mountains in center of range, northeast of Skuta and very accessible from many valleys.
The Rinka group is the water divide:
to the N, below the Savinja saddle, the Vellach (Bela in Slovene) flows towards the Drau (Drava).
to the S: the Kamniška Bistrica source,
to the E, we find the Savinja source;
to the W, the Kokra (via Jezernica) gathers the Rinkas' waters.
N, S, E & W, the 4 Rinkas (Rinke) are:
Štajerska Rinka (2374 m),
Kranjska Rinka (2453 m),
Mala Rinka (2289 m)
Križ (Koroška Rinka) (2433 m).
These four summits are related by a circling ridge above a crater-like basin, walls and ridges dropping in all directions.
> ROUTE pages appear on each Mountain page mentioned above.
At the upper end of the Savinja valley, above the Okrešelj high terrace (meadow, mountain hut), the Štajerska Rinka buttress unmistakably steps forward, between Mala Rinka and Križ (r.).
Kranjska Rinka, the highest of the 4, is reachable along a reasonably demanding marked and secured path.
Note that the legendary Rinka-Skuta ridge traverse (first performed in 1907) starts here.
Mala Rinka means small Rinka and its summit is not more than a bump above the Mali Podi high terrace (to the South), but on the other side (the N side), the mountain takes a steep drop to the Okrešelj meadow (and mountain hut).
From the town of Jezersko and along the Ravenska kočna valley (W, NW), two of the summits appear clearly: Križ (Koroška Rinka) to the left and Kranjska Rinka to the right.
Getting ThereThe Rinka standard is a marked and secured mountain hiking path that splits right hand off the Skuta SE ascent. Start at the upper end of the Turski žleb colouir and follow the blazed path signposted Rinka. This route circles the in-side of the "crater".
Mountain hut support:
Okrešelj hut (1396 m)
Kranjska koča (1700 m)
Cojzova koča (1793 m)
Kamnika koča (1864 m)
Mali Podi bivouac hut (2070 m)
> Hut acess on the hut pages.
Red TapeUnless expressly signalized (barrier, signpost), and upon your own responsibility,
macadamized roads are allowed and visible on maps (these roads are mainly maintained for lumbering and hut cable station access purposes).
Fishing & hunting is regulated.
Wild camping and open fires are not allowed.
The Kamnik-Savinja Alps are part of the Natura 2000 program.
The Logar valley (Logarska dolina) is a Landscape Parc
and there is a reasonable fee for the road up the valley, in the summer months during the daytime.
CampingLuče, along the Savinja valley.
Kamnik
Tržič
Voelkermarkt
Maybe Jezersko
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