Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg - Veliki Rob / Großer Rain

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. To the right, where we continue, is an old wooden marker for Veliki Rob (Ogrisalm and Celovška koča on the left).
The way forward, which is no longer marked, leads us along a worse road, which climbs in a few serpentines and occasional views to the ridge connecting the Great Edge and the Veronjak / Hausberg.
When you reach the ridge, leave the road and continue left along the path, which continues along the wooded ridge. Walk along the path for about 10 minutes and you will reach the top of the Big Rob, which offers a little view.
Description is as of October 2019, pictures are from November 2018 and October 2019.

On the way: Lužekar / Lausegger (1085m), Vgriz / Ogris (1180m)

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