Ljubelj - Ferlacher Horn / Grlovec (over saddle Oselca)

Access to starting point:
We leave Gorenjska highway on crossing Podtabor, and then we continue driving towards Tržič and Celovec. When we get to Ljubelj, before the tunnel we turn right on a larger asphalt parking lot, where we park.

Path description:
From the starting point, we go on the path in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na Ljubelju. After a short ascent, we reach the macadam road, on which we continue the ascent. Next follows an ascent on a quite steep road which leads us through few torrents and past a chapel and a pleasant well with a bench. Higher, the road makes few hairpin turns, at last left zig zag a nice view opens up on Košutica and Veliki vrh, and then we already get to the mountain hut Koča na Ljubelju.
From the mountain hut on the road we walk to the border, we cross it, and then on the Austrian side we descend to few minutes distant marked crossing. From the crossing, we continue right in the direction of a marked path on Košutica / Loibler Baba and we continue on a bad road. The marked path from the road soon turns right upwards, and on an increasingly bad road we walk to its end. The road ends at the nearby torrent, and on its other side we look for continuation of unmarked footpath. Next follows traversing on a worse footpath, at first above the torrent, and then through the forest. A little further, we get to an older clearing, from which a beautiful view opens up, and on the northern part of the mentioned clearing we reach a wider cart track, on which we descend towards the northwest to the nearby macadam road (to here we can get to also on the road, if at the first marked crossing we continue straight, and at the next two crossroads right. The mentioned path on the road is approximately 15 minutes longer).
We follow the road to the right, and we are descending there diagonally towards the left. Nearby hunting cottage we bypass on the left side, and then we cross also a torrent. Next follows quite some walking on the road which then gradually starts ascending, and from there several times nice views open up on surrounding mountains. Higher, at an altitude of approximately 1300 meters, a road branches off to the right, which leads to a saddle north from Rjava peč, and we continue straight on a wider road. The road on which we continue soon once again splits, and we once again continue on the left bottom road (slightly right saddle Strgavica 1350 meters and option of the ascent on Žerjavov Praprotnik).
From the crossroad ahead, the road starts considerably descending, and in doing so it crosses the south to southwest slopes of Žerjavov Praprotnik. When we get closer to Ljubelj road which we notice below us, substantial descent ends, and the road passes on more western to the northwest slopes of an already mentioned summit. Even a little further, the road once again splits, and we continue on the upper right road, on which we are for some time ascending, and then the road gradually flattens. The road, from which already from the very beginning several times beautiful views opening up, then brings us to another crossroad, where we continue on the most left road which descends a little and leads us past a gate. A little further from the gate at first from the right joins one forest road, and few steps ahead the road splits.
We once again choose the left road which only few steps further joins the marked path from the homestead Franc / Franzbauer, where on the right, on a saddle Oselca we notice a chapel and next to it a bench for resting.
We continue on the path 638, which continues on the road (path 639 only crosses the road and leads towards the homestead Urh / Urch). The road further is ascending diagonally on slopes of Koški Grintovec / Zeller Grintoutz (1368 meters), and at the right turn from the left joins also a marked path from Dajčpeter / Ghf. Deutscher Peter.
At the mentioned crossing, we for the first time notice signs for Grlovec / Ferlacher Horn, and short time we still walk on the road, after that at smaller torrent we continue slightly left on a footpath which continues by the torrent. Higher, the path flattens and past the hunting observatory, which is a little right from the path, brings us back to the forest road which we reach at the smaller crossroad. We cross the road slightly towards the right, and then we few minutes continue parallel with the road which is above us. When we return on the road, we continue there to an old clearing, where there are already growing new spruces, and from there on a marked path which continues parallel with the road which is this time below us. When we get into a lane of a forest, from the right joins also the path from the homestead Franc, and then we cross one more clearing, from which a nice view opens up towards the northern walls of Košuta. On the other side of the clearing, the path passes into the forest and then it gradually starts ascending steeply on the western ridge of Velika gora. From the ridge further several times a nice view opens up towards the north, where we see Borovlje / Ferlach and surrounding mountains. The path continues on the ridge of Velika gora, where it few times steeply ascends, and occasionally entirely flattens. The path which occasionally runs also above precipices (path mainly isn't exposed, because it runs few steps right from the precipice), then brings us on the upper slope of Grlovec, where we also step out of the forest. When we step out of the forest, in front of us we already notice a big cross, to which we have only few minutes of a moderate ascent with nice views.
Description refers to condition in April 2017, and pictures are from December 2016 and April 2017.

On the way: Koča na Ljubelju mountain hut (1370m), Oselca / Eselsattel (1175m), Velika gora (1512m)