Podkanja vas / Wildenstein - Hofovška planina / Hoffmansalpe

Access to starting point:
A) Via the Ljubelj border crossing we drive to Austria, then in the settlement Podljubelj / Unterloibl we turn right in the direction of the Hofer store. When we arrive in Borovlje / Ferlach, at the crossroads a little behind the railway track we turn left (to the right of the crossroads there is the Eurospar store), at the next crossroads after a few 100 metres we turn right in the direction of Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. Towards Železna Kapla we drive to the settlement Podkanja vas / Wildenstein, where signs for the Podkanjski slap / Wildensteiner Wasserfall direct us to the right. There follows some ascent on a somewhat narrower road, then we arrive at a nicely arranged parking lot (at the starting point there are also a guesthouse and museum).
B) Via the Jezerski vrh border crossing we drive to Austria, then beyond Železna Kapla we continue left towards Celovec / Klagenfurt and Borovlje / Ferlach. We continue on the main road towards Borovlje to the settlement Podkanja vas / Wildenstein, where signs for the Podkanjski slap / Wildensteiner Wasserfall direct us to the left. There follows some ascent on a somewhat narrower road, then we arrive at a nicely arranged parking lot (at the starting point there are also a guesthouse and museum).
C) We drive to Podjuna, then we follow signs for Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel. Beyond the settlement Miklavčevo / Miklauzhof, we leave the road towards Železna Kapla and continue right towards Celovec / Klagenfurt and Borovlje / Ferlach. We continue on the main road towards Borovlje to the settlement Podkanja vas / Wildenstein, where signs for the Podkanjski slap / Wildensteiner Wasserfall direct us to the left. There follows some ascent on a somewhat narrower road, then we arrive at a nicely arranged parking lot (at the starting point there are also a guesthouse and museum).

Path description:
From the starting point we continue on the wide tourist path in the direction of the Podkanjski slap waterfall and Obir. First we ascend in a few hairpin turns, then after a short panoramic section the path enters the forest and narrows somewhat. After a few minutes of further walking a marked path to Obir branches off to the right from the wide path, we continue straight and after one minute of further walking we arrive at the arranged viewpoint on the Podkanjski slap waterfall.
From the viewpoint we return to the last junction, then we continue on the marked path towards Obir. From the place where we leave the wide tourist path we begin to ascend steeply, on the steeper sections stairs and occasionally wire ropes assist us (in dry conditions easy). After a few minutes the steepness of the slope eases, the path turns right, where it first crosses a cart track, a little further it brings us to a forest road, which we follow to the left. We walk along the road to the right bend, at the start of which a marked footpath continues straight ahead. Further on we cross the forest road several more times, along which the path occasionally runs. There follows a somewhat longer ascent through the forest, where on a small level area we arrive at a marked junction.
From the junction we continue on the left path (right to Jagovčeva planina, from there possible ascent to Mali Obir or descent to the Borovniško reservoir lake), which continues along a small valley, a little higher we return to the road, which we follow to the left, along it we soon arrive at the abandoned Hofovška planina.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2017 (August).

On the way: Podkanjski slap / Wildensteiner Wasserfall (640m)

Trip can be extended to: Eisenkappler Hutte (1 h 20 min) , Kraguljše (1 h 25 min) , Hochobir (Ojstrc) (2 h 15 min)