Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg - Rabenberg
Starting point: Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg (948 m)
| Lat/Lon: | 46,4902°N 14,2393°E |
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Time of walking: 1 h 45 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Altitude difference: 517 m
Altitude difference po putu: 525 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Recommended equipment (summer):
Recommended equipment (winter): ice axe, crampons
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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, where a marked trail to Singerberg / Singerberg branches off to the right at the inn. Continue along the narrower, initially asphalted road beside the guesthouse. At the crossroads follow the signs for Singerberg and quickly reach a hamlet of a few houses, where you go slightly left and cross a small stream. There is a short climb up the road again, and from the road go right in the route we are already familiar with, passing through a viewpoint into the woods. We climb through the forest and quickly reach a marked crossroads, and we take a slightly longer route via the Albink / Halbingsattel saddle.
A steeper climb follows, and as we climb over a nearby cliff, a fine view of Karawanks opens up from the edge of the cliff, where the path turns left and crosses a small stream a little higher up.
Before crossing the stream, the entrance to the former lead mine can be seen on the left, and the path climbs steeply for some time after the stream. Higher up, you cross a forest road, which you leave soon after a left serpentine, and then cross it a few more times or stay on it for a short time. After a while, we pass a mighty larch tree, and after it we leave the forest on a viewing slope, from which we have a magnificent view of the central Karawanks with the highest Stol. Here the path turns right into the forest and joins the road, which you follow to the left, quickly reaching the Albink saddle, where there is a marked crossroads.
From the saddle, continue left up the unmarked road (slightly left Vranjica saddle / Orienzasattel, right Singerberg), which climbs moderately for a while, then the road, which offers occasional views mainly to the north, is laid. In the last part of the road, follow it to its end, from where you continue to the left and climb up a few steps to the highest point of the Rabenberg peak.
Slovenji Plajberk - Albink 1:20, Albink - Rabenberg 0:25.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2019 (December).
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