Podljubelj (Pod Košuto) - Zajmenove peči
Starting point: Podljubelj (Pod Košuto) (820 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4095°N 14.2945°E 
Time of walking: 2 h 45 min
Difficulty: difficult pathless terrain
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 925 m
Altitude difference (by path): 925 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We leave Gorenjska highway at Podtabor junction and we continue driving on the road towards Tržič and border crossing Ljubelj. After the turn-off for Tržič we follow the main road towards Austria to the turn-off for Podljubelj, and when we leave the main road from the nearby crossroad we continue left, further we follow the signs for Dom na Kofcah and Karami. Further, we drive on an ascending asphalt road which we follow to a crossroad, where roads for Dom na Kofcah and Karami seperate. At the mentioned crossroad there is the beginning of the described path, and we park somewhere nearby on an appropriate place.
Path description:
From the starting point, we go left on a cart track which ascends diagonally through the forest, and after few minutes it turns left and becomes quite steep. Higher follows few longer hairpin turns, and at the crossings we follow a wider cart track. We eventually reach the ridge on Vodale, and the cart track then continues on and occasionally by the ridge. On the part, where the cart track runs on the ridge, we will notice a smaller cairn, where from the cart track we go on the ridge, on which we continue (if we miss the cairn, we can leave the cart track also at the smaller trough and from there left to the ridge).
From the spot, when we leave the cart track, we at first ascend through a lane of younger spruces, and then we follow the ridge, where we can occasionally follow a worse footpath.
We continue the ascent on a worse footpath which here and there entirely vanishes, and next to it we notice few cairns. We are all the time steeply ascending in approximately the same direction, ridge is becoming less and less distinct, and the slope increasingly steep. Higher the footpath almost entirely vanishes, and individual cairns point us few steps to the left, where we reach some kind of grassy groove, on which we continue the ascent. Grassy slope is occasionally interrupted by lanes of thin forest or dwarf pines, and direction of the ascent remains the same, that means straight upwards. Shorter rocky cliffs we bypass on the left side and on steep grass and dwarf pines we reach the ridge of Zajmenove peči, from where a beautiful view opens up. If we reached the ridge left from the peak, we continue right and with nice views, we reach the bench and few steps ahead also peak of Zajmenove peči.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in September 2018 and November 2020.
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