Bučan - Žerjavov Praprotnik / Loibler Prapotnik

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Ljubelj (Tržič), and then we continue driving in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt. After Ljubelj tunnel the road starts descending, and on the Austrian side we follow it to the first left turn, where old Ljubelj road branches off to the right. We park on an appropriate place by the crossroad, or we can also park higher on the Austrian side of the former border crossing Ljubelj.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the macadam road, by which we notice a sign, that for public traffic driving is forbidden. Next follow two successive zig-zags, and then we are for some time ascending diagonally towards the right. Higher follows another left zig zag, and on the road which leads towards Koča na Ljubelju we continue to the next right zig zag, where we continue on a little worse left road, on which there is a gate. The road on which we continue is for few 10 strides ascending, and then starts gradually descending. After the crossing of a torrent stream we stop descending, and the road only a little further brings us to the next crossroad, where we continue sharply right.
Above the crossroad, the road turns sharply left and then it is ascending with nice views on Palec and Rjavca. Higher, the road turns a little to the right and brings us on a small saddle, where from the right side joins described path Ljubelj - Žerjavov Praprotnik.
We still continue on the road 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, this time we choose the upper, slightly right path (bottom path leads towards the saddle Oselca / Eselsattel), on which we ascend to a smaller saddle south from Žerjavov Praprotnik, where a little right from the path, we notice a cross.
On the mentioned saddle there is the next crossroad of roads, and we continue straight, on a cart track which continues between the both roads. Quite overgrown cart track soon turns right, where it short time crosses slopes, and then it turns left upwards and steeply ascends to newer forest road. We continue on the road to the first left turn, which is situated on an indistinct ridge.
At the mentioned turn we leave the road and with nice views, we continue on an indistinct ridge, where we continue walking on pathless terrain. Higher, we cross few lanes of forest, and all the time we are accompanied by grassy grounding. After approximately 15 minutes of ascent from the spot, where we left the last road, we reach the panoramic peak, on which stands trigonometric point and on a nearby tree a smaller cross.