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Mountain ranges / Karawanks / Srednji vrh (above Završnica) / Ljubelj - Srednji vrh (above Završnica) (on the slope of Vrtača)

Ljubelj - Srednji vrh (above Završnica) (on the slope of Vrtača)

Starting point: Ljubelj (1058 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4324°N 14.2602°E 
Path name: on the slope of Vrtača
Time of walking: 3 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 738 m
Altitude difference (by path): 738 m
Map: Stol in Begunjščica, 1 : 25.000, PZS
Author: Kriška
Views: 9,301
Trip rating: 1 votes
Number of pictures: 15
Access to starting point:
We drive to the border crossing Ljubelj and right before it, we turn left on a large parking lot below the chairlift on Zelenica.
Path description:
On one of the paths (marked mountain path, the path on a transport road or on a border guard footpath) we ascend to the mountain hut on Zelenica. From the hut, we go few ten meters in a gentle ascent on the path which leads to the cottage Koča pri izviru Završnice, and then we turn right, on a barely visible footpath which crosses a meadow (ski slope) and it vanishes in the forest on the opposite side. The turn-off on the path isn't marked, and the sign you will notice right before at the turn-off you step in the forest. This path leads on Vrtača (and Stol) and all the time leads on a slope of Vrtača, initially in the rare forest, and later through dwarf pines and on the scree and it is moderately ascending and it is very panoramic. When we come to a crossing, which is marked on the stone on the path and is pointing right on Vrtača and left on Stol, we go on the left path which leads towards Stol. From this crossing further, the path is practically almost unmarked, but well visible and beaten. This path mostly through dwarf pines, at first almost horizontally, and in the last part in a gentle descent, brings us to a saddle Šija (saddle between Vrtača and Srednji vrh). Here is a pole with old wooden signposts, which show the way in the direction of Vrtača and Stol. On the saddle, we go on a footpath which leads left upwards on Srednji vrh (caution - there is another footpath, seems better beaten, but it goes by the slope downwards). The footpath is first few meters wide, but it very quickly significantly narrows and it remains like this larger part of the path. It leads us on the edge of the slope, a smaller part in a moderate, and larger part in a quite steep ascent. The footpath is otherwise easy to follow, but so narrow, that on many spots while walking we are with legs pushing high grass and low bushes. Part of the footpath is covered with sand, there on steep parts some caution is needed, to avoid slipping. In a little less than half an hour from the saddle, we get to not a very ample peak, on which there is an inscription book, but it doesn't have a stamp. We are rewarded with wonderful views into a valley and on neighbouring peaks - Vrtača, Stol, Begunjščica, and of course also those more distant, in Karawanks, and also in Julian Alps and Kamnik Alps. We can return on the same path, or from the saddle Šija we can go downwards towards Zelenica or Smokuška planina (mountain hut Koča pri izviru Završnice). In the second case at first we have to descend quite a lot to the mountain pasture, and then again ascend to Zelenica.
On the way: Koča na Vrtači (1288m), Dom na Zelenici mountain hut (1536m), Šija (1693m)
Pictures:
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Ljubelj - Srednji vrh (above Završnica)15
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