Ljubelj - Hajnževo sedlo (via Koča na Ljubelju)
Starting point: Ljubelj (1058 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4329°N 14.2617°E 
Path name: via Koča na Ljubelju
Time of walking: 2 h 45 min
Difficulty: difficult marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 643 m
Altitude difference (by path): 750 m
Map: Karavanke 1:50.000 - osrednji del
Access to starting point:
We leave Gorenjska highway on crossing Podtabor, and then we continue driving towards Tržič and Celovec. When we get to Ljubelj, before the tunnel we turn right on a larger asphalt parking lot, where we park.
Path description:
From the starting point, we go on the path in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na Ljubelju. After a short ascent, we reach the macadam road, on which we continue the ascent. Next follows an ascent on a quite steep road which leads us through few torrents and past a chapel and a pleasant well with a bench. Higher, the road makes few hairpin turns, at last left zig zag a nice view opens up on Košutica and Veliki vrh, and then we already get to the mountain hut Koča na Ljubelju.
From the mountain hut on the road we walk to the border, we cross it, and then on the Austrian side we descend to few minutes distant marked crossing. From the crossing, we continue right in the direction of a marked path on Košutica / Loibler Baba and we continue on a bad road. The marked path from the road soon turns right upward and at first steeply ascends. The path soon flattens and it turns left. Next follows a diagonal ascent towards the left, on the path which is usually quite slippery. After few minutes of a diagonal ascent, the path brings us on the border ridge, where it is at first gently to moderately ascending, and higher is for some time quite steeply ascending. During the steep ascent when we look back a nice view opens up towards Stol, Vrtača, Palec..., and steep path brings us to metal ladder, where with the help of fixed safety gear we steeply ascend. Above the ladder follows few more steel cables, and then the path flattens and demanding part of over Rjave peči is behind us. A little further, we cross a grazing fence, and then the path leads us on grassy slopes of Grunt. With nice views on Lokovnikov Grintovec, Košutica (Ljubeljska Baba), Veliki vrh in the ridge of Košuta and other surrounding mountains, we soon get to a marked crossing, where we continue right in the direction of the mountain pasture Korošica and saddle Hajnževo sedlo (straight Košutica, slightly left Lokovnikov Grintovec).
The path ahead leads us on a cart track which is slightly descending, and meanwhile crosses some wells. A little lower from the right also joins hunting path from concentration camp Ljubelj, and we continue straight and in few minutes of additional walking, we get to the mountain pasture Korošica, where on the right side, on a smaller hill we notice mountain dairy.
From the mountain pasture Korošica we continue by following the signs for saddle Hajnževo sedlo, Veliki vrh and Kofce, on the path which from the mountain pasture leads in the forest. Through the forest, we continue diagonally towards the right, and the path leads us past wooden gorge, after which we step on panoramic gentle grassy slope. On the other side of the meadow the forest is gradually replaced by dwarf pines, and only occasionally a little steeper path we follow to the saddle Hajnževo sedlo, from which a nice view opens up also towards Austria.
Ljubelj - Koča na Ljubelju 45 minutes, Koča na Ljubelju - Planina Korošica 1:30, Planina Korošica - Hajnževo sedlo 30 minutes.
Description refers to condition in May 2017, and pictures are from December 2016 and May 2017.
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