Podnar / Bodenbauer - Hochstuhl/Stol
Starting point: Podnar / Bodenbauer (1052 m)
| Latitude/Longitude: | 46,4678°N 14,2152°E |
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Walking time: 4 h 30 min
Difficulty: difficult marked way
Elevation gain: 1184 m
Elevation difference along the route: 1300 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Recommended equipment (summer): helmet
Recommended equipment (winter): helmet, ice axe, crampons
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Access to starting point:
We drive to the border crossing Ljubelj and continue on the Austrian side. Soon after noticing a small church on the left side of the road, a road branches off to the left towards the village Poden / Bodental. At the crossroads after the village Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg, we turn left towards Poden / Bodental. In Poden / Bodental, we reach the mountain signposts for Celovška koča / Klagenfurter Hütte, one to the left and one to the right. We head left and drive on the road to the end of the asphalt, where we park on the parking lot near the pasture fences.
Route description:
From the parking lot, we head onto the traffic-closed forest road marked »Marchenwiese«. The walking forest road leads us through the forest in a gentle ascent to a pleasant meadow, where a beautiful view opens towards the northern walls of Vrtača and Palec. Further, we cross the meadow, where the footpath is harder to follow, and on the other side we look for the cart track that goes slightly uphill into the forest. After a few minutes' walk on the cart track, the blazes direct us right onto a footpath, which soon crosses a torrent alongside which it then ascends. The path then moves away from the torrent slightly to the right and brings us to a smaller clearing, where the marked path directs us even a little more to the right. The path ahead ascends more steeply and brings us, after a good 30 minutes of walking, to a junction, where we continue left (right Vgrizeva planina 5 minutes).
The steepness here eases and the path emerges from the forest into dwarf pines. Next comes the crossing of scree, then with the help of a steel cable we descend slightly. From here on, the path is exposed to falling stones. Further, the well-secured path begins to ascend the steep rocky slope. At the top of this easier climbing section, we reach the logbook box, where we sign in. The difficulty of the path then disappears and with a traversing ascent we reach the saddle Vrata. The path ahead begins to descend and brings us in a few minutes to a junction, where we continue straight (right Ovčji vrh) and with a few minutes of gentle descent reach Celovška koča.
At the hut, we head left in the direction of Prešernova koča na Stolu. The path ahead first crosses grassy slopes, then descends slightly to an indistinct saddle. The path ahead begins to ascend steeply over scree to a somewhat vegetated section of the path. A little further, a steel cable assists us in crossing a steeper slope, but this section of the path does not cause problems in dry conditions. Further, we ascend again over scree all the way to the state border.
On the saddle, we head to the Slovenian side, where we continue on the path that begins to descend (left Svačica). After this descent, we join the path that comes from the border crossing Ljubelj and from Završnica valley.
We continue right on the path that brings us in a gentle ascent to a larger scree below Celovška špica (2105m). The path then ascends over relatively steep scree and brings us to an indistinct saddle between Mali Stol and Veliki Stol. Here we continue right (left Prešernova koča 10 minutes) towards Stol, whose summit we reach after 10 minutes of further walking.
Starting point - Celovška koča 2:15, Celovška koča - Stol 2:15.
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Discussion about the trip Podnar / Bodenbauer - Hochstuhl/Stol
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| malci426. 08. 2008 |
Nice, not too demanding trip. For descent I recommend to scree lovers the unmarked path past Celovška koča. Just before the mountain border crossing we turn right below the summit of Svaščica, and after a few minutes you are already on the scree which takes you step by step all the way to the valley. Descent from the summit to the valley took me 2h10min, ascent 4h15min
best regards
Uroš
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| TinaIztok4. 10. 2011 |
Hello,
Uroš (malci4) or someone else, this trail you suggest for the descent, did you mean it like this, that at the saddle on the border (where from Celovška koča on the ascent path you first reach the border) you don't turn downhill towards Celovška koča but go right under Svaščica and then, when you pass the path to the top of Svaščica, turn downhill into the valley on a slightly steeper path, so that you have the top of Svaščica on the left, and high walls on the right, I think Vrtače?
If that's the trail, my wife and I were just thinking this weekend that it looks very nice and were considering going on it sometime.
Best regards,
Iztok
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| ZoranV2. 05. 2013 |
Start at Podnar at six in the morning. Snow is soft from the beginning, so on less steep parts with snowshoes, on steep parts without. There is very little snow left, so descent from the top is not possible. I started from the saddle where you descend into the cirque V Kožnah. For boarding the snow is excellent, only slow ...
From the cirque ascent back to Belščica and descent to Poden.
Some impressions in the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0SQiZaJBVU
Panorama from Stol summit. For first visitors a test panorama opens where you click test or skip and the view from Stol will show (visibility not the best ...)
http://pan0.net/upano.php?id=4870
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