Concentration camp - Loibler Baba/Košutica (hunting path)
Starting point: Concentration camp (1000 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4334°N 14.2707°E
Path name: hunting path
Time of walking: 2 h 40 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way, partly demanding marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 968 m
Altitude difference (by path): 968 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, at the junction Podtabor we continue in the direction of Ljubelj and Tržič. We continue driving on a regional road in the direction of Ljubelj. At the last left turn on the Slovenian side, which is located approximately 500 meters after concentration camp, we turn right on a macadam road which we follow a little less than 100 meters to a little larger macadam parking lot.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on a worse macadam road which already after few minutes ends by the nearby torrent. Here signs for mountain pasture Korošica point us to the right on a well maintained old border guard or hunting path. We continue the ascent in numerous zig-zags on a footpath which is relatively steeply ascending through the forest. Higher, we get to a viewpoint, and the path there turns to the left and it is then for some time moderately to steeply ascending. Higher, we step on a cart track, and we follow it only few 10 meters, after that at a smaller crossing we leave it and we continue straight. The path immediately returns into the forest, and we are then ascending on a pleasant forest footpath which a little further brings us to a smaller crossing, where worse beaten footpath branches off to the left, and we continue sharply right. The path then flattens and out of the forest it brings us on grazing slopes. The path ahead continues by crossing the slopes towards the right and a little further brings us to a marked crossing.
We continue sharply left (right mountain pasture Korošica 10 minutes) in the direction of Koča na Ljubelju. The path ahead short time crosses slopes towards the left and then it moderately ascends and in few minutes of additional walking brings us on the border ridge, where from the left joins the path from the mountain hut Koča na Ljubelju. We go right in the direction of Košutica and we continue on a gradually more and more steep and panoramic ridge. A relatively steep path higher crosses few shorter steep and mainly in wet for slipping dangerous slopes. Higher, the path avoids the ridge slightly to the left, where it brings us to a short very steep part. The path then returns on the ridge, where it is steeply ascending for some time, and then it flattens and then leads us on in parts narrower ridge. This increasingly panoramic path, which few meters below the summit there is for a short time also precipitous (distance of precipitous part is approximately 3 meters) we follow all the way to the top, and we reach it after few 10 strides of additional walking.
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