Bajdiše / Waidisch - Borovski vrh (Žehtar) / Sechter
Starting point: Bajdiše / Waidisch (547 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4945°N 14.3483°E
Time of walking: 3 h
Difficulty: partly demanding marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 902 m
Altitude difference (by path): 940 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
Over the border crossing Ljubelj we drive to Austria, and then we drive on the main road towards Celovec / Klagenfurt, but only to the settlement Podljubelj / Unterloibl, where we continue right in the direction of store Hofer and police station. Lower, we get to Borovlje / Ferlach, where we cross a railway track, and a little further we go right towards the settlement Bajdiše / Waidisch. The path ahead leads us past the store Eurospar, and we follow the main road to the settlement Bajdiše / Waidisch, where a little after the fire station, inn and church, near the road sign which marks the end of the settlement, on the right we notice signposts for Grlovec / Ferlacher Horn. At the beginning of the path there aren't any appropriate parking lots, so we park a little earlier or a little higher by the main road on an appropriate place.
Path description:
From the spot, where we've parked, we at first walk to the beginning of the marked path, and then we go towards Grlovec / Ferlach Horn. Further, we over the bridge cross the stream Bajdiška Borovnica / Waidischbach and the path brings us on a meadow. On the other side of the meadow, we notice the blazes, which lead in the forest. The path immediately steeply ascends and is ascending above a torrent stream, which we hear right below us. The path soon turns a little towards the left and it brings us on the forest road. We follow the road only a short time, to the spot where blazes point us to the right on a footpath. After ten minutes, the path again brings us on the forest road. We continue right upwards and the path brings us to a smaller hamlet of homestead Grlovčnik / Herlotschnik, after which the marked path goes left on a cart track. The cart track which is diagonally ascending by the fence soon turns right and it brings us to the hunting observatory, which stands on a smaller clearing. Only few steps ahead, the path crosses a forest road and ascends through quite overgrown meadow. Further, we also several times cross the forest road, and then signs point us to the left on the forest road which we follow good 100 meters to the spot, where to the right upwards a footpath branches off which then two more times crosses the forest road. At an altitude approximately 1400 meters, at crossing the road stands a cross, and a little above the religious symbol we get to a marked crossing.
From the crossing, we continue right towards Borovlje / Ferlach (left - Grlovec) and we soon reach the macadam road which we follow to the right, and we walk there to the first hairpin turn.
Sharply to the right continues the road which leads towards the valley and which we at the ascent several times crossed, and we continue straight on a marked path towards Borovlje. Next follows some crossing and a short slightly exposed descent, and then we reach the ridge, which connects Grlovec and Borovski vrh.
We continue on the ridge and when a wider path from the ridge passes on the west side of the ridge and we continue straight and we continue walking on the ridge (slightly left - Borovlje). The footpath on the ridge is at first moderately, and higher steeply ascending. A little below the summit, we step out of the forest, and on a very steep path we quickly ascend on a panoramic peak.
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