Hintergupf - St. Anna (Matzen)

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we take the exit Ljubelj (Tržič), and then we continue driving in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt. After the Ljubelj tunnel the road starts descending, and we follow it to the crossroad, where slightly 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. Only a little after the track we join the other road, which we follow to the left, and we drive on it 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 spot where we leave the main road we start to ascend more steeply on at first still asphalt, and higher on a well-maintained macadam road. Just before the hamlet Zavrh we arrive at a smaller crossroad, 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 on the road another ten meters or so and then park at an appropriate place by the road.
We can also arrive at the starting point from the direction of Železne Kaple and Koroška.

Path description:
From the place where we 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 ascends gently along the edge of a larger meadow. On the other side of the meadow the path goes into the forest and ascends gently for a few more minutes, then turns right and temporarily ascends a bit more steeply. During the ascent we cross a few cart tracks, then join a worse 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 crossroad, where we continue right (or straight on the unmarked shortcut - a beaten path that is about 5 minutes shorter than by road). A short descent follows, then the road turns sharply left and ascends gently to the place where we join a wider macadam road. We follow the mentioned road uphill and ascend on it to the saddle Koce / Hansenruhe, where there is a marked junction.
Here to the far left the road continues towards the Borovniško dammed lake, to the left paths lead towards Javornik / Jauernig and further towards the summit Setiče / Freiberg, straight ahead the path continues which descends to Bajdiše / Waidisch, but we continue sharply right on the marked path towards the summit Macna / Matzen.
The path further leads us past a resting place (table and two benches) and continues along the initially gentle ridge. A little further the marked path splits into two parts, we continue on the right path in the direction of the church of St. Anna / St. Anna and Macna past St. Anna (slightly left Macna - direct path).
From the junction the path quickly passes onto the northeastern slopes of Macna, across which it starts to ascend diagonally. We continue through the forest, only on the part where we pass onto the steeper and unvegetated slope, where a beautiful view opens towards the Drava River and surrounding mountains. The path quickly returns to the forest, which a few minutes further brings us to the church of St. Anna, from which a beautiful view opens.

On the way: Koce / Hansenruhe (1356m)

Trip can be extended to: Matzen ( 30 min)