Bodenbauer - Hochstuhl/Stol
Starting point: Bodenbauer (1052 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4678°N 14.2152°E 
Time of walking: 4 h 30 min
Difficulty: difficult marked way
Difficulty of skiing: very demanding
Altitude difference: 1184 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1300 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We drive to the border crossing Ljubelj and continue on the Austrian side. Soon after noticing a small church on the left side of the road, a road branches off to the left towards the village Poden / Bodental. At the crossroads after the village Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg, we turn left towards Poden / Bodental. In Poden / Bodental, we reach the mountain signposts for Celovška koča / Klagenfurter Hütte, one to the left and one to the right. We head left and drive on the road to the end of the asphalt, where we park on the parking lot near the pasture fences.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto the traffic-closed forest road marked »Marchenwiese«. The walking forest road leads us through the forest in a gentle ascent to a pleasant meadow, where a beautiful view opens towards the northern walls of Vrtača and Palec. Further, we cross the meadow, where the footpath is harder to follow, and on the other side we look for the cart track that goes slightly uphill into the forest. After a few minutes' walk on the cart track, the blazes direct us right onto a footpath, which soon crosses a torrent alongside which it then ascends. The path then moves away from the torrent slightly to the right and brings us to a smaller clearing, where the marked path directs us even a little more to the right. The path ahead ascends more steeply and brings us, after a good 30 minutes of walking, to a junction, where we continue left (right Vgrizeva planina 5 minutes).
The steepness here eases and the path emerges from the forest into dwarf pines. Next comes the crossing of scree, then with the help of a steel cable we descend slightly. From here on, the path is exposed to falling stones. Further, the well-secured path begins to ascend the steep rocky slope. At the top of this easier climbing section, we reach the logbook box, where we sign in. The difficulty of the path then disappears and with a traversing ascent we reach the saddle Vrata. The path ahead begins to descend and brings us in a few minutes to a junction, where we continue straight (right Ovčji vrh) and with a few minutes of gentle descent reach Celovška koča.
At the hut, we head left in the direction of Prešernova koča na Stolu. The path ahead first crosses grassy slopes, then descends slightly to an indistinct saddle. The path ahead begins to ascend steeply over scree to a somewhat vegetated section of the path. A little further, a steel cable assists us in crossing a steeper slope, but this section of the path does not cause problems in dry conditions. Further, we ascend again over scree all the way to the state border.
On the saddle, we head to the Slovenian side, where we continue on the path that begins to descend (left Svačica). After this descent, we join the path that comes from the border crossing Ljubelj and from Završnica valley.
We continue right on the path that brings us in a gentle ascent to a larger scree below Celovška špica (2105m). The path then ascends over relatively steep scree and brings us to an indistinct saddle between Mali Stol and Veliki Stol. Here we continue right (left Prešernova koča 10 minutes) towards Stol, whose summit we reach after 10 minutes of further walking.
Starting point - Celovška koča 2:15, Celovška koča - Stol 2:15.
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