Poden / Bodental - Veronjak / Hausberg

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.

Route 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 the boarding house Lužekar / BergPension Lausegger (straight Mlaka and Celovška koča). Next follows crossing of the stream Žabnica / Bodenbach, after the crossing we pass a chapel, and then slightly ascend to a small hamlet with a few houses, where we continue straight towards the inn Lužekar / Gh. Lausegeer (left Celovška koča and Vgrizeva planina). The road only a little further turns right and becomes macadam, and behind the chapel it passes into a strip of forest. When only a little further we leave the forest, we reach the other asphalt road, and there with nice views we ascend to the nearby inn Lužekar.
Still before the inn stands a stable, above which we ascend on the asphalt road, and then we continue on a worse macadam road, which ascends transversely, a little ahead it turns sharply left and with nice views and through a strip of forest brings us to the hunting observation post and fenced pasture. A little above the hunting observation post we continue into the forest, on a footpath in the direction of hiking path number 13, which continues without major changes in altitude, and most of the time it continues along the fence. When we gradually move away from the pasture, path number 3 branches off slightly to the left from path number 13, on which we continue walking.
Only a little further, we cross a cart track, and the path turns a little to the left and a little higher joins the cart track, on which we continue for some time. When higher on an indistinct ridge we reach a grazing fence, we leave the cart track and continue left into the forest, where we soon notice signs of path number 3, and the path continues along the ridge and all the time runs to the left of the wire fence. Next follows a shorter descent, which brings us to a panoramic saddle, and then we start to ascend through the forest, and the path in some places is quite steep. Higher the forest thins out and with views on the Karawanks we reach Veronjak.
Description refers to the condition in October 2019, and pictures are from November 2018 and October 2019.

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Veliki Rob / Großer Rain ( 50 min)

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