Ljubelj - Vertatscha/Vrtača (east groove Y)
Starting point: Ljubelj (1056 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4324°N 14.2602°E 
Path name: east groove Y
Time of walking: 3 h 15 min
Difficulty: very difficult pathless terrain
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 1125 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1123 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Ljubelj and follow the road ahead to the border crossing. Only few meters before the border crossing signs for Zelenica point us to the left and after few 10 meters of additional driving the road brings us on a parking lot below the ski center Zelenica.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on a footpath in the direction of Zelenica, Vrtača and Stol. Cart track which runs on the left side of the ski track, after approximately 15 minutes of a moderate ascent through the forest brings us to the before mentioned track by which we are then ascending. The path which offers nice views on extensive scree of Begunjščica on the left and to a ridge of Ljubeljščica on the right then in a gentle ascent brings us to the hut Vrtača. From the mountain hut, we continue straight on a marked path, which slowly turns slightly to the left and after a shorter diagonal ascent brings us into a lane of dwarf pines. Further, the path is for a short time steeply ascending and then brings us on a cart track (transport road), which we follow in a moderate ascent to the mountain hut Dom na Zelenici. From the mountain hut Koča na Zelenici we continue right in the direction of Stol and Vrtača (left Begunjščica on the path which immediately behind the hut turns left and it ascends by children's ski lift. Somewhere on the halfway of the cableway, we come on a less noticeable crossing, where we continue right and we diagonally ascend over a ski track (straight mountain hut Koča pri izviru Završnice). Ahead we cross a short lane of a forest and the path brings us to the next ski lift which we cross in a gentle descent. On the other side of the ski track, we notice a bigger rock and there a blaze, which points us in the forest. The path ahead at first slightly descends, and then it ascends diagonally over the scree. The path soon flattens and turns a little towards the left, where we get to a smaller unmarked crossing. We continue straight on a gently sloping and marked mountain path, which only a little further brings us to the spot, where the unmarked path branches off to the right into a valley Suho ruševje (cairn). We continue there through a patch of dwarf pines and thin forest and past the boulders towards the notch Žleb between Zelenjak and Palec. Right below the groove we turn left and we cross the scree of Zelenjak in long turn towards the foot of the eastern wall of Vrtača. The crossing is because of slippery gravel and rocks a little unpleasant. When we step below the end of the groove, we have to ascend also on a steep gravel to the wall, which is quite rugged, so we can ascend fast. Higher above the groove narrows quite a lot and splits in two narrow gullies. We continue on the left, which is wider. Contrary to the right it is also much easier, and the mountain wall also isn't that steep. We are ascending over crumbly rocky jumps, until we get to two jammed boulders, below which we have to crawl. Then follows the key part of the tour, where we have to on the right climb two crumbly rocky jumps. Then on crumbling terrain we ascend to a small saddle, from which in easy climbing we reach the peak.
More or less we were all the time ascending in range of 1st - 2nd grade of climbing.
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