Žabnica / Bodental - Veliki Rob / Großer Rain (via Veronjak / Hausberg)

Access to starting point:
Over the border crossing Ljubelj we drive to Austria, and after few kilometers we turn left towards the valley Poden / Bodental. Next follows some ascent, and then we get to the settlement Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg, and a little after the mentioned settlement road turns left. Higher, we get to the settlement Žabnica / Bodental, where we park on a parking lot by inn Gasthof Sereinig.

Path description:
After the inn signs for Celovška koča / Klagenfurter Hütte and Mlaka / Märchenwiese point us to the right, on the path which on the right side bypasses a bigger chapel and at first continues by the foot of the nearby ski slope. Few minutes we walk on a gently sloping grassy path, and then we reach an asphalt road, on which we continue light ascent. After the mill or after the house number Žabnica / Bodental 53, we continue right in the direction of boarding house Lužekar / BergPension Lausegger (straight Mlaka and Celovška koča). Next follows crossing of the stream Žabnica / Bodenbach, after the crossing we go also past the chapel, and then we slightly ascend to a hamlet with few houses, where we continue straight towards the inn Lužekar / Gh. Lausegeer (left Celovška koča and Vgrizeva planina). The road only a little further turns right and becomes a macadam, and behind the chapel it passes into a lane of a forest. When only a little further we leave the forest we reach the other asphalt road, and there with nice views, we ascend to the nearby inn Lužekar.
Still before the inn stands a stable, above which we ascend on the asphalt road, and then we continue on a worse macadam road which ascends diagonally, and a little ahead it turns sharply left and with nice views and through a lane of a forest brings us to the hunting observatory and fenced pasture. A little above the hunting observatory we continue in the forest, on a footpath in the direction of hiking path number 13, which continues without large changes in altitude, and most of the time it continues along the fence. And when we gradually go away from the pasture from the path number 13 slightly to the left path number 3 branches off, on which we continue walking.
Only a little further, we cross a cart track, and the path turns a little to the left and a little higher it joins the cart track, on which we for some time continue. When higher on an indistinct ridge we reach a grazing fence, we leave the cart track and we continue left in the forest, where we soon notice signs of the path number 3, and the path continues on a ridge and all the time runs left from the wire fence. Next follows a shorter descent, which brings us to small panoramic saddle, and then we start ascending through the forest, and the path in some parts is quite steep. Higher the forest gets thinner and with views on Karawanks we reach Veronjak.
From Veronjak we at first steeply descend on the southwestern ridge, after that steepness decreases and after a small saddle, where from the right a footpath from the nearby forest road joins, the path again starts ascending. A little further, we cross a cart track, and the path passes on overgrown clearing, from which a nice view opens up on the northern walls of Košuta. Higher, the path returns into the forest and continues on a ridge. When we eventually cross the next forest road, where from the left joins the path which doesn't lead over Veronjak, we continue straight and in few minutes of additional walking, we reach the peak of Veliki Rob.
Žabnica / Bodental - Veronjak / Hausberg 1:20, Veronjak / Hausberg - Veliki Rob / Großer Rain 0:50.
Description refers to condition in October 2019, and pictures are from November 2018 and October 2019.

On the way: Veronjak / Hausberg (1348m)