Poden / Bodental - Veliki Rob / Großer Rain (via Veronjak / Hausberg)

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 the house No. Žabnica / Bodental 53, continue to the right in the direction of the Lužekar Guesthouse / BergPension Lausegger (straight ahead Mlaka and Klagenfurter Hutte). Cross the Žabnica / Bodenbach stream, pass the chapel after crossing it, then climb gently to a hamlet of a few houses, where you continue straight ahead towards the Lužekar Guesthouse / Gh. The road turns right and becomes gravel just a little further on, and after the chapel it turns into mountain pasture woodland. After leaving the forest a little further, you reach another asphalt road, which leads you up to the nearby Lužekar guesthouse, with beautiful views.

In front of the guesthouse is a stable, which is ascended on an asphalt road, and then continued on a less good macadam road, which ascends crosswise, and a little further on turns sharp left and, with fine views and through the lane of the forest, leads us to a hunting observation post and a fenced pasture. A little above the hunting observation post, continue into the woods, on the footpath in the direction of footpath No 13, which continues without any major changes in altitude, but most of the time continues along the fence. As you gradually move away from the pasture, path No 13 branches off slightly to the left onto path No 3, which you continue walking along.

Just a little further on, cross cart track, and the path turns slightly to the left and joins cart track a little higher up, which is followed for some time. When you reach a grazing fence higher up on an indistinct ridge, leave cart track and continue left into the forest, where you soon see the signs for route 3, and the path continues along the ridge, passing to the left of the wire fence all the way. There is a short descent, which leads to a viewpoint, and then we start climbing through the forest, and the path is quite steep in places. Higher up, the forest thins out and, with views of Karawanks, we reach Veronjak.
From Veronjak we first descend steeply along the south-west ridge, then the steepness eases and after a small pass, where a path from the nearby forest road joins us from the right, the path begins to climb again. A little further on, we cross cart track, and the path passes onto an overgrown clearing, from which we get a nice view of the northern walls of Košuta. Higher up, the path returns to the forest and continues along the ridge. After a while, crossing the next forest road, where a path that does not lead over Veronjak joins from the left, continue straight ahead and within a few minutes of further walking reach the summit of Veliki Rob.
Frog / Bodental - Veronjak 1:20, Veronjak - Veliki Rob 0:50.
Description is as of October 2019, pictures are from November 2018 and October 2019.

On the way: Veronjak / Hausberg (1348m)

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