Zavrh / Hintergupf - Matzen

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 starts descending, and we follow it to the junction, where slightly to the right and downwards the road towards the settlement Borovlje / Ferlach branches off. The road, which is still descending, quickly brings us to the mentioned settlement, where we soon cross the railway track. A little after the track we join another road, which we follow to the left, driving on it for only a few hundred meters, then we turn right in the direction of Železne Kaple / Bad Eisenkapel. At the end of Borovlje we arrive at a roundabout, from which we again continue in the direction of Železne Kaple. We continue driving through the villages Medborovnica / Unterferlach, Ostrovca / Ostrouza, Trata / Tratten, Glinje / Glainach, Vesca / Dörfl, Ždovlje / Seidolach, Dobrova / Dobrowa to the settlement Kočuha / Gotschuchen, where we turn right in the direction of the hamlet Zavrh / Hintergupf. From the point where we leave the main road we start ascending more steeply on at first still asphalt, higher on a well-maintained macadam road. Just before the hamlet Zavrh we arrive at a smaller junction, where we continue right and drive to the hamlet, in the middle of which we notice hiking signposts. From the signposts and nearby houses we drive along the road a few tens of meters further and then park in a suitable place by the road.
We can also reach the starting point from the direction of Železne Kaple and Koroška.

Route description:
From the spot where we have parked, we return to the nearby houses, from there we continue on the marked path no. 636. The path first ascends beside the house, then behind it passes onto a grassy cart track, which gently ascends along the edge of a larger meadow. On the other side of the meadow the path enters the forest and gently ascends for a few more minutes, then turns right and temporarily ascends a little more steeply. During the ascent we cross a few cart tracks, then join a poorer forest road, which we follow to the left. Further on we walk for some time on the gentle road, along which we eventually arrive at a smaller junction, where we continue right (or straight on the unmarked shortcut - a beaten path that is approximately 5 minutes shorter than by the road). A short descent follows, then the road turns sharply left and gently ascends to the point where we join a wider macadam road. We follow the mentioned road uphill, ascending along it to the saddle Koce / Hansenruhe, where there is a marked junction.
Here far left the road continues towards the Borovniško dammed lake, left paths lead towards Javornik / Jauernig and further towards the summit Setiče / Freiberg, straight ahead the path continues descending to Bajdiše / Waidisch, we continue sharply right on the marked path in the direction of the summit Macna / Matzen.
The path ahead leads us past a resting place (table and two benches) and continues along an initially gentle ridge. A little further the marked path splits into two parts, we continue on the left in the direction of the summit Macna (slightly right church of St. Anne / St. Anna and Macna past St. Anne).
Further the path becomes steeper and mostly continues along the left side of the ridge. Higher the forest starts to thin, and the increasingly scenic path with views of the northern walls of Košuta and other peaks quickly brings us to the logbook box on Macna.
From the logbook box we continue along the ridge, then the path enters the forest, where it descends along the edge of an exposed slope. When the path stops descending we arrive at the cliffs of the main peak, the path detours the cliffs slightly to the right and continues along a steep partly rocky slope. The steep ascent is short, as we quickly arrive at the scenic summit of Macna, from which we see yet another summit of Macna, on which a cross stands.

Along the route: Koce / Hansenruhe (1356m)

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