Poden / Bodental - Ogrisalm/Vgrizeva planina

Access to starting point:
Over the border crossing Ljubelj we drive to Austria, and after a few kilometers we turn left towards the valley Poden / Bodental. There follows some ascent, and then we get to the settlement Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg, and a little after the mentioned settlement the road turns left. Higher up we reach the settlement Poden / Bodental, where we park at the parking lot next to the Gasthof Sereinig inn.

Path description:
After the inn signs for Celovška koča / Klagenfurter Hütte and Mlaka / Märchenwiese point us to the right, on the path which on the right side bypasses a bigger chapel and at first continues by the foot of the nearby ski slope. We walk a few minutes on a gently sloping grassy path, and then we reach an asphalt road, on which we continue a barely noticeable ascent. After the mill or after the house number Žabnica / Bodental 53, we continue right in the direction of pension Lužekar / BergPension Lausegger (straight Mlaka and Celovška koča). Next follows crossing of the stream Žabnica / Bodenbach, after the crossing we go also past a chapel, and then we slightly ascend to a hamlet of a few houses, where the path from Lužekar joins and where at the crossroads we follow the signs for Celovška koča. The path ahead leads us past another chapel, behind which blazes of the path 603 show up, and the road starts ascending diagonally. We walk on the road past individual houses, and at the crossroads we follow the blazes or signs for Celovška koča.
Above the farm Vgriz / Ogrisbauer, the asphalt ends, and by the path we notice a notification that we are entering the bear area. Some 10 steps ahead from the left joins the path from Podnarja / Bodenbauer, the road which is further with a traffic sign closed for public traffic splits. We continue on the left road which is getting worse and by which there are the blazes. A little further a nice view opens up temporarily, and then the road returns into the forest and brings us to the next junction. To the right an old wooden sign points towards Veliki rob / Grosser Rain (1464 m), and we continue left, on the road which changes into a cart track. The cart track further leads into an indistinct little valley, where we go past a smaller spring, and after the spring we start steeply ascending on a mountain path. We quickly reach the ridge, where from the right also a somewhat less trodden path joins, which leads from Veliki rob, and we continue left and walk for some time on and along the ridge, occasionally on this part a nice view opens up, which reaches all the way to the High Tauern. Higher the path moves away from the ridge to the left and passes to the quite steep eastern slopes of Kosmatice / Kosmatitza (1659 m), where we mostly only cross the slopes without major changes in altitude. When the slope flattens somewhat, the path turns right, crosses a grazing fence and brings us from the forest to the edge of Vgrizeva planina. Next follows a short walk and we arrive at the older and newer hut on the pasture, from where an exceptional view opens up on Vrtača and the surrounding mountains.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2018 (November).

Trip can be extended to: Kosmatica / Kosmatitza ( 15 min) , Klagenfurter Hutte/Celovška koča , Ovčji vrh (Kozjak) / Geissberg (Kosiak) , Prešernova koča na Stolu , Vertatscha/Vrtača , Hochstuhl/Stol