Žabnica / Bodental - 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, and a little after the village, the road turns left. Higher up, you reach Žabnica / Bodental, where you park in the parking lot next to Gasthof Sereinig.

Path description:
After the inn, the signs for Celovška koča / Klagenfurter Hütte and Mlako / Märchenwiese direct you to the right, to a path that passes a larger chapel on the right and initially continues along the foot of the nearby ski slope. Walk along a winding grassy path for a few minutes before reaching an asphalt road, which continues with a barely noticeable climb. After the mill, or after house No. Žabnica / Bodental 53, continue right in the direction of the Lužekar Pension / BergPension Lausegger (straight ahead Mlaka and Celovška hut). Cross the Žabnica / Bodenbach stream, pass the chapel after crossing it, and then climb gently to a hamlet of a few houses, where the trail from Lužekar joins, and at the crossroads follow the signs for the Celovská hut. The way forward takes us past another chapel, after which the markings for route 603 appear, and the road begins to climb crossways. Walk along the road past individual houses, and at the crossroads follow the signs 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 along the road, which turns into cart track. Cart track takes us further 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 a while, 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 elevation. 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.

Ogrisalm - Kosmatica 0:15.

Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2018 (November).

On the way: Ogrisalm/Vgrizeva planina (1569m)

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