Alpine Clubs

Beside excellently organised excursion activities at home and abroad we also offer instruction courses: Alpinist courses and school, cross country skiing courses and school for sports climbing, which will serve you well in overcoming natural obstacles.

In the field of competition we offer above all competitions in sports climbing – we are also organisers of the Slovene Cup in ice climbing! We enable you to practice on our own low climbing wall, which is in the multi-cultural centre Pekarna.

For our members we organise trekking and expeditions in the mountains of all continents, among which the most interest is for:

• both Americas (Andes, Rocky Mountains, Patagonia...),
• Asia - (Himalayas) and 
• Europe - (Alps).

Among our club members there are some alpinists of world fame and with topmost alpinist achievements.

On your way over Fram's Pohorje and the surroundings, where our guides of A, B and D categories will lead you! There are two marked trails, which are thoroughly renewed every few years, leading from Fram to Pohorje, to Arena and the lodge Mariborske koče. German and English speaking groups are welcome to join us on our expeditions.

Along with active Alpine activities (mainly excursion into the mountains and also high mountains) we also publish the gazette Planinski odmevi (Alpine echoes), in which we publish our work for the previous year and tell something about our impressions of the trips. Likewise during the wintertime organise lectures with slide shows.

For safe trips into the hills equipment is also important. Therefore every year we spend a large part of the money we have at our disposal for buying equipment and supplementing mountain maps, guidebooks and other literature.

You can go with us into the mountain world of Slovenia and abroad and you can choose from many different types of excursions:

• easy tours in the nearby surroundings,
• undemanding trips for older alpinists,
• easy tours in the high mountains,
• demanding tours up known peaks in the high mountains,
• demanding tours to less demanding peaks in the high mountains (also over high mountains),
• downhill tours,
• excursions to foreign mountains and 
• mass hikes.

We are the caretakers of three Alpine trails, Kozjak, Svečina and the Pohorske alpine trail, and two bases, the lodge Koča na Žavcarjeva vrh (867 m) and the lodge Mariborska koča (1068 m). We also are active in editions for Alpine routes for the whole region of Slovenia and with the supply of literature on mountaineering. Look at our display window at the seat of the club (here alpinists can purchase log books for alpine routes, pay membership fees for PZS, purchase maps, get different information…) and next to the Franciscan Church. We also organise guided hikes on Pohorje for German speaking groups.

Ramble with us along the Šentilj route or join us on one of the many other alpine excursions that we arrange. Together with members, which in our club numbers over 400, we will lead you on the trail over Kozjak, for which we also look after. 

All those who wish to gather strength or just to enjoy the peace of pleasant walks in beautiful surroundings, we invite you to visit us in the queen of Pohorje’s lodges, Ribniška koča, which for our visitors is suitable both in winter and summer. In the wintertime it is surrounded with maintained and prepared ski slopes, in the summer the lodge is an interesting place for alpinists, who are walking the Slovene Alpine transversal, Koroška route or the Courier’s Trail. In the summertime other visitors can drive here with their cars or come by bus to the lodge from the Drava valley past Ribnica na Pohorju – this place is a very popular place to visit during the bilberries season and during mushroom picking times.

Come with us on a guided trip to the Slovene mountains as well as Alpine expeditions abroad.  

Through cooperation with kindergartens and schools and through exciting rambles we also are active in teaching the young about the field of mountain climbing. WE also take care for the marking and condition of Alpine paths – vist the route Areh – Bajgot!

We offer professional guided tours on Pohorje, one of the best-preserved natural regions in Slovenia. Educational for school children, an adventure for individual hikers as well as for groups. 

Get acquainted with our routes!

In our program you can begin routes from the least to the most demanding – from forest learning trails to several hours of trekking. Routes are for example marked with a pine tree and a yellow-blue sign on a white square or just a yellow-blue sign. On the way there are marked 17 stops with natural sights! You can walk the route in one hour, with professional guidance three hours!

In our tourist association we offer organised hikes through the commune of Duplek and its colourful surroundings.

Look at the project Duplek’s Alpine Route and– then off and away!

Take an organised hike around the surroundings of the Vurberk castle, the onetime Count’s promenade and a climb up Grmada, the highest peak in Slovenske gorice!

Likewise you can visit our locality on special occasions, when we organise different events, for example the Festival of national-popular music, Štajerska sings and a bicycle marathon for sports enthusiasts.

In the club, which was founded way back in 1901, we are active in mainly the field of excursions, hikes and orientation competitions. 

Where do we take you?

Join us in out traditional hike, which we prepare for throughout the year and for which hikers receive commemorative badges, and families receive certificates! Annually we go on more than 50 excursions to home and foreign mountains, especially on mediterranean tours along the highest peaks on the main land and islands! In the wintertime sit with us for picturesque lectures with slide shows.

Our Alpine Club has its seat in the cellar of the multi-storey building in on the street Frankolovska ulica in Maribor. You can go on excursions with us both at home and abroad. The club has an active alpinist section and a section for young people..

In as much as you wish to get acquainted with the world of Alpine climbing we advise you to join one of the Alpine sections in Slovenia. Alpinist sections – as a rule annually organise an Alpinist school, where individuals learn the basic primary elements of moving safely in the world of mountainous, they also learn how to handle equipment correctly.

As members of the Sports Club Ruše we can use the climbing wall in the sports hall in Ruše every weekday from 19.30 to 21.00 hours.

Stimulate your inner wish to be more active and join our Alpine Club. With organised hikes and excursions we offer you the opportunity to reawaken a feeling of harmony with nature. We will also take you along the marked Oplotnica trail, which we care for and maintain.

Along with excursions and hikes we also organise cycling and rafting.

Participate in organised excursions and hikes in Slovenia and abroad. The more courageous can join us in Alpine climbing in high mountains. We will visit Slovenia’s mountains, as well as mountains in Dalmatia and Greece.

Planinsko društvo Pošta in Telekom (Alpine Club Pošta and Telekom)

If you are interested in Alpine excursions and hikes, then join us! Among other tings we organise hikes and we take care of the lodge Poštarski dom below Plešivce.

Join us on Alpine excursions in Slovenia and abroad.

We also invite young people and children to join us! You can join the youth camps or competitions