Poden / Bodental - Rjautza

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, we take the exit Ljubelj (Tržič), then continue driving in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt. After the Ljubelj tunnel, the road begins to descend, and we follow it to the junction where the road to Poden / Bodental branches off to the left. When we arrive in the mentioned settlement, we park on the large parking lot by the inn Sereinig. At the starting point, there is also a chapel and, in wintertime, a smaller ski slope.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we head onto path no. 2, which continues along the fenced garden and brings us across the meadow to a smaller junction in a few minutes.
From the junction, we continue on the left forest road, alongside which we soon notice the sign for path no. 12. The forest road slowly starts to ascend and soon enters the forest, through which it then ascends for some time. Higher up, the forest thins out, so some views open up, and the road then crosses a torrent, after which we arrive at the memorial to the deceased aviators. Slightly above the memorial, the road makes a sharp left turn, and right there we leave it and continue the ascent straight on the marked hiking path, which rejoins the road at a smaller wooden hut. We walk on the road for some time, then the signs for path no. 12 direct us right to the nearby torrent, alongside which we ascend briefly. From the torrent, the path goes onto a vegetated clearing and higher joins a worse cart track. We continue briefly on the cart track, then the marked path turns right, where it temporarily flattens out completely.
After a shorter traverse, we arrive at a smaller indistinct valley, up which we start to ascend steeply. Higher, the path turns right and after a few minutes makes a left turn and brings us just a little higher onto the ridge of Požganega roba.
Here we continue straight (sharply right Požgani rob 5 minutes) and continue briefly along the ridge, then the path turns slightly left, where it ascends diagonally through a belt of dense forest. The trail higher briefly ascends steeply, then turns right and suddenly flattens along the edge of a meadow. We continue along the edge of the meadow, cross the pasture fence, and ascend for some time along the forest-covered ridge. Ahead it ascends gently, then steeply for a short time. The steepness quickly eases and the path bypasses Bela peč on the left side. After a shorter traverse, we step onto an indistinct saddle, where a worse-trodden little path branches sharply right to Bela peč, and we continue straight on path no. 12. The path ahead brings us out of the forest onto a smaller and relatively steep scree, up which we ascend to the entrance into the scree gully. Here the path ascends even more steeply, then brings us onto the ridge, where it turns right and flattens. This is followed by the ascent through a belt of dwarf pines and the increasingly scenic path quickly brings us to the 1789 m high summit.

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