Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg - Veliki Rob / Großer Rain

Access to starting point:
Over the border crossing Ljubelj we drive to Austria, and after a few kilometers we turn left towards the valley Poden / Bodental. There follows some more ascent, and then we get to the settlement Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg, where we park on a parking lot below the church.

Route description:
From the parking lot below the church we continue straight and quickly get to the inn Gasthaus Kirchenwirt in Windisch Bleiberg, where before the inn a marked path to Žingarica / Singerberg branches off to the right, after the inn and still before the end of the settlement, a marked path towards the valley Poden / Bodental branches off to the left.
We continue left, cross the bridge and ascend to the nearby chapel. At the chapel we continue straight (we can also go sharply right, in this case higher up we walk briefly on the asphalt road) and go past a few houses to the nearby hayrack, where we leave the road.
We continue right, where on a nearby tree we notice the sign for path 17. The path ahead leads us along the edge of the forest, higher also through a strip of forest, then along the edge of the pasture to the asphalt road, which we reach at the chapel. We cross the road to the right (left settlement Žabnica / Bodental) and continue in the direction "Bodental, Sonnenhang 15 min.".
Next follows a traverse ascent through a strip of forest, walking on path no. 2. A little further the forest ends and with nice views on the central Karawanks we reach the pension Lužekar / BergPension Lausegger.
We continue on the road, where the path leads us past the "exhibition" and the farm, on the asphalt road we descend to a marked junction, from which we continue slightly right onto the macadam road in the direction of Vgrizeva planina / Ogrisalm and Celovška koča / Klagenfurter Hütte. A little further one of the paths from the inn Gasthof Sereinig joins from the left, after the junction we arrive at a few houses in the settlement Žabnica, where at the first junction we go left, at the second right in the direction of Vgrizeva planina and Celovška koča. The path ahead also leads past a chapel, after which marks for path 603 appear, and the road begins to ascend transversely. On the road we walk past individual houses, at junctions we follow the marks or signs for Celovška koča.
Above the farm Vgriz / Ogrisbauer the asphalt ends, by the path we notice a notice that we are entering the bear area. Some 10 steps further the path from Podnar / Bodenbauer joins from the left, the road, which further on is closed to public traffic by a traffic sign, splits. We continue on the left road, which becomes worse and alongside which there are marks. A little further a nice view opens up temporarily, then the road returns to the forest and brings us to the next junction. To the right, where we continue, an old wooden sign points to Veliki Rob / Großer Rain (left Vgrizeva planina / Ogrisalm and Celovška koča).
The path ahead, which is no longer marked further on, leads us on a poor road, which climbs in a few hairpin turns and with occasional views to the ridge connecting Veliki Rob and Veronjak / Hausberg.
When we reach the ridge we leave the road and continue left on a narrow path which continues along the forested ridge. On the mentioned path we walk approximately 10 minutes and reach the summit of Veliki Rob, from which a small view opens up.
The description refers to the condition in October 2019, and the pictures are from November 2018 and October 2019.

Along the route: Lužekar / Lausegger (1085m), Vgriz / Ogris (1180m)

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