Podljubelj (Lajb) - Tomčeva koča na Poljški planini
Starting point: Podljubelj (Lajb) (770 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4151°N 14.2701°E 
Time of walking: 2 h 45 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 410 m
Altitude difference (by path): 695 m
Map: Karavanke 1:50.000 - osrednji del
Access to starting point:
We leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Podtabor junction, and then we continue driving towards the Ljubelj border crossing. Further on, we drive past the turn-off for Bistrica pri Tržiču, and higher up also past the turn-off for Podljubelj. A little after the 4.5 km road sign, after the underpass we turn right and then once again right into Podljubelj. We park at a suitable spot by the sign which marks the beginning of Podljubelj.
Path description:
From the starting point, we continue over the overpass across the main road, after the overpass the road turns left and gently descends past the nearby house. A little further, at the next intersection, we notice the first hiking signposts for Preval, Begunjščica and Dobrča, which direct us onto an ascending macadam road that leads us past a few more houses, then transitions into the forest. A little higher the road turns left and crosses Potočnikov graben over a bridge. Further on, we ascend along the road closed to public traffic for quite some time, with occasional views of the surrounding mountains, continuing to the spot where the trail markers from the road direct us left into the forest. Through the forest we ascend more steeply for a few minutes, then return to the road, which we follow to the nearby right bend. After the bend we continue left onto the footpath, along which we once again return to the road. This time too we do not continue long on the road, but the signs for Preval, Begunjščica and Roblekov dom direct us slightly right onto a relatively steep cart track. Along the cart track with occasional views we ascend to the spot where we join the Bornova pot, and from the junction we continue left, then past a pasture fence, ascending in a few minutes to the Preval pasture, where on the left, a little higher, we notice the mountain dairy from which a beautiful view opens up reaching all the way to Triglav.
We continue slightly right and proceed along the macadam road in the direction of Roblekov dom via Roža, Poljška planina and Planinca pasture. We ascend along the road for approximately another 100 metres of elevation, after which a marked path via Roža branches off to the right from the road leading to Roblekov dom, while we continue along the road, which a little further begins to descend. A relatively long descent follows on a poorer road, from which we occasionally get views of the slopes of Begunjščica, and occasionally also views to the other side.
When we reach the wider road the descent ends, and we continue right, walking in a few steps to the shepherd's hut on Planinca pasture.
Behind the hut the road enters the forest and then ascends gently to moderately. After a good 10 minutes of further walking we arrive at Tomčeva koča on Poljška planina.
Lajb - Preval-a 1:30, Preval-a - planina Planinca 1:00, planina Planinca - Poljška planina 15 minutes.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2017 (January, March and April).
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