Sele-Zvrhnji Kot (Male) / Zell-Oberwinkel (Male) - Hajnžev Praprotnik / Zeller Prapotnik

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Ljubelj (Tržič), and then we continue driving in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt. After Ljubelj tunnel the road starts descending, and we follow it to the settlement Podljubelj / Unterloibl, where we continue right in the direction of the settlement Borovlje / Ferlach (by the crossroad there are also signs for store Hofer). Lower, we cross also railway track, and then in next a little larger crossroad we go right in the direction of the settlement Sele / Zell. The road then leads us past the store Eurospar, after that Borovlje slowly ends. Further, the road leads through the settlement Bajdiše / Waidisch. A little further from the mentioned settlement we leave the main road which leads towards the settlement Sele-pri Cerkvi / Zell-Pfarre and we continue driving right in the direction of the settlement Sele-Zvrhnji Kot / Zell-Oberwinkel. The road then leads us past individual houses, and then we get to a crossroad, by which there are situated yellow signposts (by signs there is the beginning of the described path), and we drive good 100 meters ahead, to a marked parking lot after school Ljudska šola / Volksschule.

Path description:
From the marked parking lot, we return on an asphalt road to a marked crossroad, and from there we continue in the direction of Košutica (Ljubeljska baba) / Loibler Baba. The path ahead leads us on a macadam road which is with a traffic sign closed for public traffic. The road little ahead over a bridge crosses the stream Hajnžev graben, and then leads us past few more houses. A little higher blazes from the road point us slightly to the left, on a footpath which then through a small wooden bridge once again crosses the mentioned stream. The path continues by scenic stream, for some time on the right and for some time on the left bank, meanwhile the path leads us also past a smaller, but usually quite water rich waterfall. Above the waterfall the stream becomes for some time less rapid, and the path quite gentle. Later, the path leads also over some bridges, and stream again becomes more scenic. When we eventually reach the macadam road we follow it to the left and then we quickly get to a marked crossing.
From the crossing, we continue right (left mountain hut Koča pod Košuto / Koschutahaus), past mill and over a bridge. The path ahead leads through the forest and then we get to gravel terrain, where the footpath for some time vanishes. Some 10 meters further we step on other macadam road, and there we walk to the nearby crossroad, from which we go left in the direction of Košutica (straight farm Hajnž).
The path ahead leads us on a macadam road, on which we walk to a smaller meadow. In the middle of a meadow, where the road turns slightly right, we continue slightly left on a cart track, and from the cart track little ahead slightly right on a footpath. The path ahead for the first time steeply ascends, and after few minutes it returns on the road. We follow the road to the left, and after nearby right turn we leave it and we continue left in the forest. A few minutes of ascent through the forest follows, and then the path again flattens and it brings us to a marked crossing.
From the crossing, we continue right in the direction of Ljubelj on the path number 650 (left saddle Hajnževo sedlo, the path number 651). At first, a still gentle path, in the forest becomes steeper and after a smaller well, it turns left. Next follows some diagonal ascent towards the left, and after a warning sign, that we are entering the grazing area, the path turns a little to the right and starts vanishing. Through thin forest, higher pasture, we follow occasionally rare blazes, and an increasingly panoramic path, higher brings us on a smaller ridge, where there is a grazing fence.
On the ridge the marked path turns left, and we continue straight, over a grazing fence and then right, at first a little downwards in the direction towards the northeast. On this part the footpath entirely vanishes, and we continue on gentle terrain to the cairn, after which on the slope a worse footpath appears (if we continue here left downwards we get to Lokovnikova planina, and if we stick to the right, by the ridge, we get interrupted by dwarf pines).
Further it is very good to stick to a poorly footpath, because through steep part it leads without any bigger problems. Above the steep slopes, the path passes among dwarf pines, and occasionally it is still steeply ascending. Higher, we reach the ridge of Hajnžev Praprotnik, and the path for some time continues through occasionally quite overgrown dwarf pines. Despite occasional greater overgrowth, the footpath through dwarf pines is quite easy to follow.
On the ridge, the path flattens, and to the main peak separates us few more shorter ascents and descents. Before the ascent to the summit, the dwarf pines end, and we at first steeply ascend on the ridge, on which then in few 10 strides we reach the panoramic peak.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2017 (July and October).

On the way: Slap v Hajnževem grabnu (720m)