Matizovec - Tegoška planina (border guard path)

Access to the starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Ljubelj exit and follow the road towards the border crossing. Leave the main road at the point where the signs for "Camping and Podljubelj" point to the right. After leaving the main road, after a few metres you will come to a crossroads where you turn left in the direction of "Kofce". Continue through the village on a slightly ascending road and then turn right in the direction of "Matizovec and Kofce". Follow this sometimes slightly narrower road, which is asphalted in the lower part, to a large marked parking area, about 150 metres below the Matizovec farm.

Path description:
From the large free parking lot, continue along the macadam road, which will take you to Matizovec Farm in about 20 minutes.
From Matizovec, continue along the worse road in the route Dom na Kofcah , following the signs carefully at a few crossroads. After a few minutes of walking on the worse road or cart track, the signs direct us to a steep footpath which first ascends crosswise to the left, then passes onto a wooded ridge, where it turns slightly to the right. Continue along the steep mountain path, which crosses the cart track at a higher level and gradually flattens out behind it. Just a little further on, the forest thins out and the waymarked path turns right into the forest and joins cart track a little higher up, which climbs transversely to the right. Cart track turns left higher up, and the marked path from Kala joins us from the right.
From the crossroads onwards the forest ends, and the increasingly scenic route leads us within 5 minutes of further walking to Dom na Kofcah .
From Dom na Kofcah continue right in the direction of mountain pasture Šija. The path first crosses the slopes to the east in a gentle descent, then joins the wide cart tracks, which leads out of the forest onto the mountain pasture Ilovica. The path continues to climb gently and after a few more minutes of easy walking leads to Zavetišče na planini Šija.
From the Shelter at mountain pasture Šija we continue on the macadam road, which after a few metres leads us to a marked crossroads where the unmarked path leading to Kladiva and the old border path crossing the southern slopes of Košuta branches off slightly to the left. Continue along the above-mentioned path, which first ascends crosswise and then leads to a plain where an unmarked path branches off to the left to Veliko Kladivo (the branch is marked, but it is located in the middle of the leveling). From the point where the path branches off to the left towards the ridge of Košuta, continue straight along the track, which begins to disappear in the grassy terrain. A little further on, you reach the edge of the forest, where you find the continuation of the track. The path ahead leads quickly out of the forest and onto the moderately steep slopes of Košuta, partly grassy and partly covered with dwarf pines. After enjoying the beautiful views for some time, cross the slopes to the east and then reach the marked path mountain pasture Pungrat - Škrbina. Just cross the marked trail and continue walking in the same direction. The border track then turns slightly to the right and then joins the waymarked path in the vast pastures of the far eastern part of the Pungrat mountain pasture, and we continue straight ahead to the nearby pasture fence. Cross the fence and walk from mountain pasture Pungrat to the pastures of Tegoška mountain pasture. Continue along the marked path for a short distance, then turn right at a prominent ravine and descend to the nearby forest road, which then leads downhill to the shepherd's hut at Tegoška mountain pasture.

On the way: Matizovec (1072m), Dom na Kofcah mountain hut (1488m), Planina Ilovica (1462m), Zavetišče na planini Šija mountain hut (1528m), Planina Pungrat (1447m)

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