Vranček - Lokovnikov Grintovec / Grintoutz
Starting point: Vranček (950 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4279°N 14.2726°E
Time of walking: 2 h 50 min
Difficulty: partly demanding marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 859 m
Altitude difference (by path): 900 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 towards the border crossing. When we leave the last tunnel (we recognize it by that, that after the tunnel on the left side of the road there is scree) we will in the first sharp left turn notice a road house and next to it a macadam road. Here we park on a smaller parking lot or we drive on a bad road further to the next parking lot, which is situated a little higher.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on a bad forest road and we follow it ahead. The road higher crosses a torrent, after that slightly ascends and then brings us to the spot, where it ends. Ahead we cross the bridge and we continue on a cart track which is moderately ascending on a partly overgrown scree. Cart track makes few sharp turns and brings us from northern slopes of Košuta on the southern slopes of Košutica.
Further, we are mostly ascending through the forest, which brings us on a larger clearing. Here cart the track goes sharply left and is ascending towards the mountain pasture Korošica. A little before the mountain pasture we cross a grazing fence, where a beautiful view opens up. From the meadow we go slightly right below the cottage, which we see above us. The path then turns left and in few steps of ascent brings us to the cottage on the mountain pasture Korošica.
From the cottage, we continue towards the north in the direction of Košutica (right saddle Hajnževo sedlo). The path soon turns to the left and crosses the western slopes of Košutica. A relatively gently sloping path soon brings us on the border ridge, where from the left joins the path from the mountain hut Koča na Ljubelju.
We continue right and after a shorter gentle ascent we get to a marked crossing, where we continue left over the fence following the signs Hainschgraben / Hajnžev graben.
On Austrian side on a marked path we at first slightly descend, and then the path turns to the right and it crosses the fence.
We continue towards the east on a footpath which runs below the ridge of Košutica and it brings us on a saddle Dovjakovo sedlo. On a grassy saddle, which is situated between Košutica and Lokovnikov Grintovec we continue left on the ridge by the fence upwards. At first the path runs for a short time through the forest and then we cross the fence and we start ascending through dwarf pines. Poorly beaten and a little overgrown path then most of the time runs by the ridge through dwarf pines and soon it brings us on a panoramic peak.
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