Vranček - Hajnžev Praprotnik / Zeller Prapotnik

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Ljubelj and follow the road ahead towards the border crossing. When we leave the last tunnel (we recognize it by that, that after the tunnel on the left side of the road there is scree) we will in the first sharp left turn notice a road house and next to it a macadam road. Here we park on a smaller parking lot or we drive on a bad road further to the next parking lot, which is situated a little higher.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on a bad forest road and we follow it ahead. The road higher crosses a torrent, after that slightly ascends and then brings us to the spot, where it ends or changes into a relatively wide cart track. Ahead we cross the bridge and we continue on a cart track which is moderately ascending on a partly overgrown scree. Cart track makes few hairpin turns and brings us from northern slopes of Košuta on the southern slopes of Košutica.
Further, we are mostly ascending through the forest, and when the forest gets thinner the cart track turns left upwards and is ascending towards the mountain pasture Korošica. A little before the mountain pasture we cross a grazing fence, where a beautiful view opens up. From the meadow we go slightly right, below the cottage, which we see above us. The path then turns left and in few steps of ascent brings us to shepherd cottages on the mountain pasture Korošica.
From the cottage, we continue towards the north in the direction of Košutica and Koča na Ljubelju (right - Hajnževo sedlo, Košutica and Veliki vrh). The path soon passes on the western slopes of Košutica, where from the left joins the hunting path from concentration camp Ljubelj. A relatively gently sloping path soon brings us on the border ridge, where from the left joins the path from Koča na Ljubelju.
We continue right and after a shorter gentle ascent we get to a marked crossing, where we continue left over the fence following the signs Hainschgraben / Hajnžev graben.
From the crossing, the path at first descends a little and then turns right and crosses slopes of Košutica towards the left. At first, we are descending a little and then the path after an interesting cliff starts ascending diagonally. After few minutes of a diagonal ascent, with nice views on surrounding mountains, we quickly reach the saddle Dovjakovo sedlo, where we once again cross a grazing fence.
At the grazing fence the path branches off to the left on Lokovnikov Grintovec, and slightly left we look for the further marked path, which diagonally descends on the other side of Lokovnikov Grintovec. After few minutes of diagonal descent, the path brings us on an indistinct ridge, on which we continue a descent to an indistinct saddle between Lokovnikov Grintovec and Hajnžev Praprotnik.
On the mentioned saddle an indistinct marked path turns right downwards towards Hajnžev graben, and we continue left over a grazing fence, and then we lightly descending 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.
The starting point - mountain pasture Korošica 1:35, mountain pasture Korošica - Dovjakovo sedlo 50 minutes, Dovjakovo sedlo - Hajnžev Praprotnik 55 minutes.

On the way: Planina Korošica (1554m), Dovjakovo sedlo / Dovjaksattel (1728m)