Ljubelj - Ferlacher Horn / Grlovec (over saddle Oselca)

Access to starting point:
We leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Podtabor junction, then continue driving towards Tržič and Celovec. When we arrive at Ljubelj, before the tunnel we turn right onto a larger asphalted parking lot, where we park.

Path description:
From the starting point, we head onto the path in the direction of the Koča na Ljubelju mountain hut. After a short ascent, we reach the macadam road, on which we continue the ascent. Next follows an ascent along a fairly steep road that leads us across a few torrents and past a chapel and a pleasant spring with a bench. Higher up, the road makes a few more hairpin turns; at the last left hairpin a nice view opens up onto Košutica and Veliki vrh, then we already arrive at the Koča na Ljubelju mountain hut.
From the hut, we walk along the road to the state border, cross it, then on the Austrian side descend to a marked junction a few minutes away. From the junction, we continue right in the direction of the marked path to Košutica / Loibler Baba and continue the path along a poorer road. The marked path soon turns right uphill from the road, while we walk along the increasingly poor road to its end. The road ends at the nearby torrent, and on its other side we search for the continuation of an unmarked footpath. Next follows traversing along a poorer footpath, first above the torrent, then through the forest. A little further on, we arrive at an older clearing from which a beautiful view opens up, and on the northern part of the mentioned clearing we reach a wider cart track, along which we descend towards the northwest to the nearby macadam road (we can also arrive here by road if at the first marked junction we continue straight, then at the next two intersections turn right. The mentioned road path is approximately 15 minutes longer).
We follow the road to the right, along which we descend diagonally towards the left. We bypass the nearby hunting hut on the left side, then cross another torrent. Next follows quite some walking along the road, which gradually begins to ascend further on, and from it beautiful views of the surrounding mountains open up several times. Higher, at an altitude of approximately 1300 m, a road branches off to the right leading to the saddle north of Rjava peč, while we continue straight along the wider road. The road we continue on soon splits again, and we once again continue along the left lower road (slightly right saddle Strgavica 1350 m and option of ascent to Žerjavov Praprotnik).
From the junction onward, the road begins to descend more noticeably, crossing the south to southwest slopes of Žerjavov Praprotnik in the process. When we approach the Ljubelj road, which we notice below us, the more noticeable descent ends, and the road shifts to the more western to northwest slopes of the already mentioned peak. A little further on, the road splits again, and we continue along the upper right road, along which we ascend for some time, then the road gradually levels out. The road, from which beautiful views open up several times already from the very beginning, then brings us to another junction, where we continue along the leftmost road, which descends slightly and leads us past a barrier. A little further from the barrier, first a forest road joins from the right, and a few steps further the road splits.
Once again we choose the left road, to which a few steps further the marked path from the Franc / Franzbauer homestead joins, where on the right, at the Oselca saddle, we notice a chapel and next to it a bench for resting.
We continue along path 638, which continues along the road (path 639 only crosses the road and leads towards the Urh / Urch homestead). The road then ascends diagonally across the slopes of Koški Grintovec / Zeller Grintoutz (1368 m), and in the right bend a marked path from Dajčpetra / Ghf. Deutscher Peter also joins from the left.
At the mentioned junction we notice the signs for Grlovec / Ferlacher Horn for the first time, and we walk along the road for a short time longer, then at a smaller torrent continue slightly left onto the footpath, which continues along the torrent. Higher up, the path levels out and brings us past the hunting observatory, which is slightly to the right of the path, back to the forest road, which we reach at a smaller junction. We cross the road slightly to the right, then for a few minutes continue parallel to the road, which is above us. When we return to the road, we continue along it to an old clearing where new spruces are already growing, and from there along the marked path, which continues parallel to the road that is now below us. When we arrive in the strip of forest, the path from the Franc homestead also joins from the right, then we cross another clearing, from which a nice view opens up towards the northern walls of Košuta. On the other side of the clearing, the path enters the forest, then gradually begins to ascend steeply along the western ridge of Velika gora. From the ridge, beautiful views towards the north open up several times further on, where we see Borovlje / Ferlach and the surrounding mountains. The path continues along the ridge of Velika gora, where it ascends steeply a few times, occasionally flattening out completely. The path, which occasionally runs above cliffs (the path is mainly not exposed, as it runs a few steps to the right of the cliff), then brings us to the upper slopes of Grlovec, where we also step out of the forest. When we step out of the forest, we already spot a large cross ahead of us, to which only a few minutes of moderate ascent with nice views remain.
Description refers to the condition in April 2017, pictures are from December 2016 and April 2017.

On the way: Koča na Ljubelju mountain hut (1370m), Oselca / Eselsattel (1175m), Velika gora (1512m)