Ljubelj - Lokovnikov Grintovec / Grintoutz (via Koča na Ljubelju)

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, we take the Ljubelj exit and follow the road ahead to the border crossing. Just a few meters before the border crossing, we will notice a parking lot on the right side, where we park.

Path description:
At the end of the parking lot, we notice signposts for the mountain hut Koča na Ljubelju, which after some stairs take us to the old Ljubelj road. We follow this road, which is moderately ascending and in winter is converted into a sledding track, all the way to the mountain hut Koča na Ljubelju. We reach it after a little less than an hour of walking, with nice views in parts on Košutica, Veliki vrh and Begunjščica.

From the mountain hut, we continue on the road to the Austrian side, where after five minutes of walking signposts direct us to the right into the forest. The path through the forest slightly ascends and after approximately 30 minutes of walking from the end of the road brings us to the border ridge. The path on the ridge is not steep but the slopes on which we walk are steep, therefore especially when wet great caution is needed. In some places we also get help from safety gear and a ladder. The forest then becomes thinner and the path brings us to the pastures of Grunt. Grunt is an indistinct peak on the path on which we walk.

Here from the right joins the path from the mountain pasture Korošica, we continue straight on the ridge along the border fence. The path then brings us to a junction, where to the left branches the path to Dovjakovo sedlo. From there further on a small footpath (cow paths) in a gentle ascent below the northern wall of Ljubeljska Baba. We soon bypass a huge conglomerate boulder, from there follows a somewhat steeper ascent to the already mentioned Dovjakovo sedlo, which is surrounded crosswise by a wooden fence (state border). We turn left towards the foot of the summit slope. The footpath winds through a larch forest to dense patches of dwarf pines. First we ascend over a short rugged crumbly cliff, then among dense patches of dwarf pines to the first grassy top. A few tens of meters to the north in the middle of dwarf pines opens the second grassy top with a rock, on which is written the elevation 1810 m. Here is the highest point of Lokovnikov Grintovec, but from the first grassy top, which lies at the same altitude as the second, a much better view opens up.

On the way: Koča na Ljubelju mountain hut (1370m), Dovjakovo sedlo (1728m)