Podljubelj (Pod Košuto) - Zajmenove peči
Starting point: Podljubelj (Pod Košuto) (820 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4095°N 14.2945°E 
Time of walking: 2 h 45 min
Difficulty: difficult pathless terrain
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 925 m
Altitude difference (by path): 925 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Podtabor junction and continue driving on the expressway towards Tržič and the Ljubelj border crossing. After the turn-off for Tržič we follow the main road towards Austria to the turn-off for Podljubelj, and when we leave the main road, from the nearby crossroad we continue left; further on we follow the signs for Dom na Kofcah and Karami. Further, we drive on an ascending asphalt road, which we follow to a crossroad where the roads for Dom na Kofcah and Karami separate. At the mentioned crossroad the described path begins, and we park somewhere nearby at a suitable place.
Path description:
From the starting point, we head left onto a cart track that ascends transversely through the forest; after a few minutes it turns left and becomes quite steep. Higher up, a few longer hairpin turns follow, and at the junctions we follow the wider cart track. Eventually we reach the ridge at Vodale, and the cart track then continues on and occasionally beside the ridge. On the section where the cart track runs along the ridge, we will notice a small cairn, where we continue from the cart track onto the ridge along which we proceed (if we miss the cairn we can also leave the cart track at a smaller trough and from there left to the ridge).
From the point where we leave the cart track we first ascend through a belt of younger spruces, then we follow the ridge, where occasionally we follow a poorer path.
We continue the ascent along a poorer path that here and there completely disappears, and beside it we notice a few cairns. All the time we ascend steeply in approximately the same direction, the ridge becomes ever less pronounced and the slope steeper. Higher up the occasional path almost completely disappears, individual cairns direct us a few steps to the left, where we reach a kind of grassy gully along which we continue the ascent. The grassy slope is interrupted by occasional belts of sparse forest or dwarf pines, the direction of ascent remains the same, i.e. straight upwards. Shorter rocky cliffs we bypass on the left side and across steep grass and dwarf pines we reach the ridge of Zajmenove peči, from where a beautiful view opens up. If we reached the ridge left of the summit, we continue right and amid fine views we reach a bench and a few steps further the summit of Zajmenove peči.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in September 2018 and November 2020.
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