Vranček - Hajnžev Praprotnik / Zeller Prapotnik

Access to the starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Ljubelj exit and follow the road towards the border crossing. When you leave the last tunnel (identified by a scree slope on the left-hand side of the road after the tunnel), you will see a road-builder's cottage at the first sharp left-hand bend and a dirt road alongside it. Park here in a small parking lot or drive on the minor road to the next parking lot, which is a little higher up.

Path description:
From the parking lot, turn onto the worse forest road and follow it. The road crosses a torrent at a higher level, then climbs slightly and leads to a place where it ends or turns into a relatively wide cart track. Next, cross the bridge and continue along cart track, which climbs moderately on partly overgrown scree. Cart track makes some serpentines and leads from the northern slopes of Kosuta to the southern slopes of Loibler Baba.
Next, we mostly climb through the forest, and when the forest thins out, cart track turns left uphill and climbs towards mountain pasture Korošica. Shortly before mountain pasture, cross a pasture fence where a fine view opens up. From the meadow, turn slightly right, under the hut you can see above you. The path then turns to the left and leads us in a few steps uphill to the shepherd's hut at mountain pasture Korošica.
From the hut, continue north towards Loibler Baba and Koča na Ljubelju (Hajnževo sedlo, Košutica and Veliki vrh to the right). The path soon passes to the western slopes of Loibler Baba, where the hunting trail from the Ljubelj camp joins us on the left. The relatively gentle path soon leads us to the border ridge, where the path from the Hut on Ljubelj joins from the left.
Continue to the right and after a short ascent reach a marked crossroads, where you continue left over the fence behind the Hainschgraben / Hajnžev graben markers.
From the crossroads the path first descends slightly, then turns right and crosses the slopes of Loibler Baba to the left. Initially descending a little further, the path then begins to climb cross-climbing behind an interesting cliff. After a few minutes of cross-climbing, with fine views of the surrounding mountains, you quickly reach Dovjakovo sedlo, where you once again cross a pasture fence.
At the pasture fence, the path to Lokovnikov Grintovec branches off to the left, and we look slightly left for the continuation of the marked path, which descends crosswise to the other side of Lokovnik's Grintovec. After a few minutes of cross-country descent, the path leads us to an unmarked ridge, along which we continue our descent to an unmarked saddle between Lokovnik's Grintovec and Hajnž's Praprotnik. At the saddle, a faint marked trail turns right downhill towards Hajnžev Grajn, and we continue left over a pasture fence, then descend gently to the north-east. At this point the path disappears completely, and we continue along the fold to cairn, after which a fainter path appears on the slope (if we continue left down here we reach Lokovnikova mountain pasture, but if we keep right, along the ridge, we are stopped by dwarf pines).
It is very good to stick to the worse path, as it takes you over the steep part without any major problems. Above the steep slope, the path passes between dwarf pines, but occasionally it still climbs steeply. Higher up, the ridge Hajnžev Praprotnik is reached and the path continues for some time through the sometimes quite overgrown dwarf pines. Despite the occasional heavi overgrowth, the path through dwarf pines is quite easy to follow.
At the ridge, the trail flattens out, and there are a few more short ascents and descents to the main summit. Before reaching the summit, the dwarf pines ends, and we first climb steeply up to the ridge, which we then follow in a few 10 steps to reach the summit.
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)

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