Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg - Kosmatica / Kosmatitza

Access to the starting point:
Cross the Border crossing Ljubelj into Austria, and after a few kilometres turn left towards the Poden / Bodental valley. After a few more climbs, you reach Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg, where you park in the parking lot under the church.

Path description:
From the parking lot under the church, continue straight ahead and quickly reach Gasthaus Kirchenwirt in Windisch Bleiberg, where a marked trail to Singerberg branches off to the right in front of the guesthouse, and a marked trail to the left branches off after the guesthouse and before the end of the village, towards the Poden / Bodental valley.

Continue left, cross the bridge and climb up to the nearby chapel. At the chapel, continue straight on (you can also take a sharp right, in which case you will walk a short distance higher up the asphalt road) and pass a few houses to the nearby trestle, where you leave the road.

Continue to the right, where you will see a trail marker 17 on a nearby tree. The path ahead leads you along the edge of the forest, higher up through the lane of a forest, and then along the edge of the pasture to the asphalt road, which you will reach by the chapel. Cross the road to the right (on the left the village of Frog / Bodental) and continue in the route "Bodental, Sonnenhang 15 min. ".

Then ascend through the lane woods, following route No 2. A little further on, the forest ends and, with fine views of the central Karawanks, you reach the Lužekar Pension / BergPension Lausegger.

Continue along the road, where the path leads you past the "exhibition" and the farm, and along the asphalt road down to a marked crossroads, from which you continue slightly to the right, onto the dirt road in the direction of Ogrisalm and Klagenfurter Hutte / Klagenfurter Hütte. A little further on, one of the paths from Gasthof Sereinig joins from the left, and after the crossroads you reach some houses in the village of Frog, where you go left at the first crossroads, and right at the second one, in the direction of Ogrisalm and Celovská hut. The way forward leads us past the chapel, after which the markings of route 603 appear, and the road begins to climb crosswise. Continue along the road past individual houses, and at the crossroads follow the markings for Celovška Hut.

Above the farm Vgriz / Ogrisbauer, the asphalt ends, and you will see a notice on the side of the path that you are entering a bear area. A few 10 steps further on, the path from Podnar / Bodenbauer joins us from the left, and the road, which is closed to public traffic with a road sign, splits. Continue along the road on the left, which is getting worse and worse, and where there are signs. A little further on, we get a nice view, and then the road returns to the forest and leads us to the next crossroads. An old wooden marker for the Great Rim / Grosser Rain (1464 m) points to the right, and we continue left, following the road which turns into cart track. Cart track then takes us into an undistinguished valley, where we pass a small spring, and after the spring we start to climb steeply along a mountain path. We quickly reach the ridge, where we are joined on the right by a slightly less well-trodden path leading from Veliki roba, and we continue to the left and walk along and along the ridge for some time, occasionally opening up a beautiful view that reaches all the way to the High Tur. Higher up, the ridge trail retreats to the left and passes onto the rather steep eastern slopes of Kosmatica (1659 m), where the slopes are mainly just traversed without any major changes in altitude. When the slope flattens out a little, the path turns right, crosses a pasture fence and leads out of the forest to the edge of Vgrizeva mountain pasture. A short walk takes you to the older and newer hut at mountain pasture, from where you have an outstanding view of Vertatscha and the surrounding mountains.
Before the two huts at mountain pasture, turn sharp right and start climbing up the grassy slope on a less well-trodden but traceable track. Higher up, you reach a ridge and within a few minutes of further walking you reach the top of Kosmatice.
Slovenji Plajberk - Ogrisalm 2:45. Ogrisalm - Kosmatica 0:15.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2018 (November).

On the way: Lužekar / Lausegger (1085m), Vgriz / Ogris (1180m), Ogrisalm/Vgrizeva planina (1569m)

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