Bučan - Žerjavov Praprotnik / Loibler Prapotnik

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana-Jesenice highway, take the Ljubelj (Tržič) exit, then continue driving in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt. After the Ljubelj tunnel, the road starts descending, and on the Austrian side we follow it to the first left turn, where the old Ljubelj road branches off to the right. We park at a suitable place by the crossroads, or we can also park higher on the Austrian side of the former border crossing Ljubelj.

Route description:
From the starting point, we continue on the macadam road, alongside which we notice a sign that driving for public traffic is forbidden. Two successive hairpins follow, then for some time we ascend transversely to the right. Higher up another left hairpin follows, and we follow the road leading to Koča na Ljubelju to the next right hairpin, where we continue on the somewhat worse left road across which there is a gate. The road we continue on ascends for another 10 or so steps, then gradually begins to descend. After crossing the torrent brook we cease descending, and the road brings us a little further to the next junction, where we continue sharply right.
Above the junction the road turns sharply left, then ascends with nice views on Palec and Rjavca. Higher the road turns slightly right and brings us to a small saddle, where from the right joins the described path Ljubelj - Žerjavov Praprotnik.
We continue further on the road along which we descend transversely to the left. We bypass the nearby hunting cottage on the left side, then cross another torrent. There follows quite some walking on the road, which gradually begins to ascend, and from it nice views open up several times on the surrounding mountains. Higher, at an altitude of approximately 1300 m, to the right a road branches off leading to the saddle north of Rjava peč, and we continue straight on the wider road. The road we continue on soon splits again, this time we choose the upper, slightly right path (the lower path leads towards the saddle Oselca / Eselsattel), along which we ascend to a smaller saddle south of Žerjavov Praprotnik, where a little to the right from the path we notice a crucifix.
On the mentioned saddle there is the next junction of roads, and we continue straight on the cart track that continues between the two roads. The quite overgrown cart track soon turns right, briefly crosses the slopes, then turns left upward and steeply ascends to a newer forest road. On the road we continue to the first left turn, which is located on an indistinct ridge.
At the mentioned turn we leave the road and with nice views continue on the indistinct ridge, where we continue walking on pathless terrain. Higher we cross a few belts of forest, all the time accompanied by grassy terrain. After approximately 15 minutes of ascent from the place where we left the last road, we reach the panoramic summit, on which stands a trigonometric point and on a nearby tree a smaller cross.

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