Bodenbauer - Ovčji vrh (Kozjak) / Geissberg (Kosiak) (via Klagenfurter Hütte)
Starting point: Bodenbauer (1052 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4678°N 14.2152°E 
Path name: via Klagenfurter Hütte
Time of walking: 3 h 15 min
Difficulty: difficult marked way
Difficulty of skiing: very demanding
Altitude difference: 972 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1100 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 that, when we notice a smaller church on the left side of the road, the road towards the village Poden / Bodental branches off to the left. At the crossroad for the village Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg we turn left towards Podnu / Bodental. In Podnu / Bodental we come to mountain signposts for Celovška koča / Klagenfurter Hütte left and right. We head left and drive on the road to the end of the asphalt, where on the parking lot near the grazing fences we park.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto the traffic-closed forest road with signs »Marchenwiese«. The walking forest road through the forest in a gentle ascent brings us to a pleasant meadow, where a beautiful view opens up towards the northern walls of Vrtača and Palec. Further, we cross the meadow on which the footpath is harder to follow and on the other side we look for a cart track which goes slightly upwards into the forest. After a few minutes' walk on the cart track the blazes direct us to the right onto a footpath which soon crosses a torrent along which it then ascends. The path then pulls away from the torrent a little 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 after a good 30 minutes of walking brings us 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 follows crossing a scree slope, then with the help of a steel cable we descend slightly downwards. From here onwards the path is exposed to falling rocks. Further, the well-secured path starts to ascend the steep rocky slope. At the top of this easier climbing section we come to a logbook box, where we sign in. The difficulty of the path then disappears and in a traversing ascent we reach the saddle Vrata. The path ahead starts to descend and in a few minutes brings us to a junction, where we continue straight ahead (right Ovčji vrh) and in a few minutes of gentle descent we reach Celovška koča.
From the hut we continue slightly right across the meadows which we cross in a gentle ascent. After a few minutes of walking from the hut the footpath brings us into a small indistinct valley, where the path starts to ascend. We soon leave this valley as the path turns sharply right into the slopes of Ovčji vrh / Geissberg. The path, which is quite steep, brings us after one hour of walking from the hut across panoramic slopes to the summit slope of the mountain. In the last part of the path the steepness eases and ahead of us we see a cross which we reach without difficulty.
Starting point - Celovška koča 2:15, Celovška koča - Ovčji vrh 1:00.
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