Sele-Zvrhnji Kot (Male) / Zell-Oberwinkel (Male) - Planina Korošica (over Dovjakovo sedlo)

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 footpath again becomes relatively easy to follow, and a little ahead from the ridge, it turns slightly to the left on slopes, on which we diagonally ascend on a saddle Dovjakovo sedlo, from which a nice view opens up towards a larger part of Košuta and Košutica and other central Karawanks, with Stol at the back.
On a grassy saddle Dovjakovo sedlo, which is situated between Košutica on the left and Lokovnikov Grintovec on the right, at first we stride across the grazing fence, and then we continue on at first a poorly visible footpath in the direction of Košutica. The footpath soon becomes more distinct, and the path leads diagonally towards the right, and occasionally it also descends a little. Few minutes ahead we get below an interesting cliff, and then with nice views, we again start ascending diagonally. A little higher we cross a grazing fence, and a little ahead at the national border we cross one more.
When we reach the national border, we get also to a marked crossing, and we continue right (left Košutica 45 minutes) in the direction of Koča na Ljubelju. For some time we are descending on the ridge and then we get to the next crossing, where we continue left in the direction of the mountain pasture Korošica (straight Koča na Ljubelju).
The path ahead leads us on a cart track which is slightly descending, and meanwhile crosses some wells. A little lower from the right also joins hunting path from concentration camp Ljubelj, and we continue straight and in few minutes of additional walking, we get to the mountain pasture Korošica, where on the right side, on a smaller hill we notice mountain dairy.
Sele-Zvrhnji Kot - Dovjakovo sedlo 3:40, Dovjakovo sedlo - mountain pasture Korošica 35 minutes.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2017 (July).

On the way: Slap v Hajnževem grabnu (720m), Dovjakovo sedlo / Dovjaksattel (1728m)

Trip can be extended to: Hajnževo sedlo , Hajnžev Praprotnik / Zeller Prapotnik , Lokovnikov Grintovec / Grintoutz , Loibler Baba/Košutica , Veliki vrh (Košuta)