Klippitztörl - Fuchskogel

Access to starting point:
a) Via the Ljubelj border crossing (MP Ljubelj), we drive into Austria and follow the signs for Celovec by Lake Wörthersee / Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In Celovec, at McDonald's, we turn right onto the south bypass / Südring; at the next major intersection, we turn right again towards Velikovec / Völkermarkt and Mostič / Brückl. We soon leave the road towards Velikovec as shortly after the Obi store we turn right towards the highway and Mostič. Continuing, we pass the Ikea store, where we follow the signs for Mostič and past the highway on-ramps. When we arrive in Mostič, we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely after the settlement Mösel, we turn right towards the Klippitztörl pass and settlement Lölling. Continuing, we begin to ascend more noticeably up the valley of the Löllingbach stream; higher, after the settlement Lölling, we gradually distance ourselves also from the stream. We follow this road all the way to the Klippitztörl pass, where we turn right and park on the larger asphalt parking lot.
b) Via the Jezerski Vrh, Holmec or Vič border crossings (MP), we drive into Austria, then follow the signs for Velikovec / Völkermarkt, from there the signs for Mostič / Brückl. When we arrive in Mostič, we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely after the settlement Mösel, we turn right towards the Klippitztörl pass and settlement Lölling. Continuing, we begin to ascend more noticeably up the valley of the Löllingbach stream; higher, after the settlement Lölling, we gradually distance ourselves also from the stream. We follow this road all the way to the Klippitztörl pass, where we turn right and park on the larger asphalt parking lot.
c) We leave the motorway Celovec by Lake Wörthersee / Klagenfurt am Wörthersee - Graz / Graz at the Šentlenart exit in Labotska dolina / Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal, then follow the signs for Zeltweg and Reichenfels. Continuing, we drive along Obdacher Straße, which after about 2 km of driving we leave and continue left towards the Klippitztörl pass. This is followed by approximately 15 km of ascending asphalt road, which we follow past the Naturfreundehaus hut to the Klippitztörl pass, where we turn left onto the asphalt parking lot, where we park in a suitable spot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head north, where we first carefully cross the main road and then head onto the footpath following the signs for Zirbitzkogel and Hohenwart. Initially, we ascend transversely through the forest; when we reach the cart track, we gradually begin to descend transversely; lower down, we reach a macadam road, which we follow to the right, from it a little further right onto a path that ascends above the road; after a short ascent, we reach another cart track, which we follow to the right. There follows some walking along the cart track, from which a view of the quite distant Zirbitzkogel opens up several times, then we gradually arrive at the slopes of the peak Hohenwart, where at several junctions we continue straight ahead or stick to the left marked paths, alongside which there are signs for Zirbitzkogel.
After a longer traverse, we reach the northern ridge of the peak Hohenwart, from where we begin to descend more noticeably, further on sticking to the left directions at junctions. Continuing, we walk for some time beside a pasture, where upon looking to the right a view opens towards the Packalpe mountain group; when lower down the path stops descending, we cross a somewhat wider macadam road.
We continue following the signs for Zirbitzkogel; after a short ascent, we return to the forest, which higher up begins to thin; a little further on, we ascend moderately along a panoramic clearing. Amid beautiful views reaching to the Julian Alps, we return to sparse forest, where we pass an interesting hunting observatory, then easily continue along a gentle indistinct ridge, where we almost imperceptibly step onto Angerlkogel, whose summit we recognize by the trigonometric stone.
A little further from the highest point of the summit, we leave the forest and upon looking to the left side a view opens up reaching all the way to Triglav and further to the Italian mountains; we begin to descend along the grassy slope towards a smaller saddle, where we cross a macadam road, continuing the ascent along the marked path in the direction of the Feldalmhütte hut. There follows an easy ascent, initially still through sparse forest, higher up along a gentle grassy slope; the path leads us slightly to the right of the Pressner Alpe ridge. A little further on, among the blueberries the path completely levels out and we arrive at the Pfannegger Kreuz cross, where the marked path turns right.
We continue right along the cart track, which gradually widens into a poorer road, which mostly gently descends while traversing the slopes to the right. A little further on, the path turns left and quickly brings us to the Feldalmhütte hut.
We bypass the hut on the upper left side, then from the road left onto the footpath following the signs for St. Martiner Hütte and Zirbitzkogel and ascend transversely across the northeastern slopes of the Zöhrerkogel peak. When a few minutes further we reach the northeastern ridge of the mentioned peak, we reach a poorer macadam road; we merely cross the ridge (left along the Zöhrerkogel ridge 20 minutes) and continue walking along the gentle road. We later leave the poorer road and head slightly left onto a footpath, along which we continue transversely to the northwestern ridge of the Zöhrerkogel peak (here an unmarked path joins us from the left, leading over the mentioned peak).
We continue to the other side of the ridge and further follow the signs for the St. Martiner Hütte hut; the path ahead descends transversely to the left. Lower down, where the path temporarily stops descending, we pass three crosses, then along the panoramic slope, from which a beautiful view of the nearby Krške Alpe opens up, we continue to the St. Martiner Hütte hut.
We bypass the hut and the auxiliary building on the left side, then cross the pasture fence and easily ascend across the last part of the pasture into the forest. Also in the forest, for some time we easily ascend transversely to the left, where at several junctions we follow the direction of the markings. When we leave the forest, the path levels out; after the cross, we begin to descend towards the junction near the Stoanahütte hut.
From the junction, we continue straight in the direction of the Zirbitzkogel peak (right Stoanahütte hut 3 minutes; continuing towards Zirbitzkogel is also possible past the hut, the path is only a few minutes longer) and first ascend moderately, higher up steeply; besides the classic Austrian markings, winter markings also appear in the form of red poles. There follows approximately 30 minutes of fairly steep ascent; when higher up we reach the elongated southern ridge of Fuchskogel, the path levels out and increasingly beautiful views begin to open up on all sides. Later the path levels out even more and from the right a path joins us that leads past Wildsee lake starting from the Waldheimhütte hut.
The path ahead ascends moderately; upon looking to the right side, a beautiful view of Wildsee lake soon opens up; a little further on, the path levels out again and we arrive at a junction, where to the right a fairly short path branches off towards the Fuchskogel summit.
Here we leave the marked path that continues towards the Zirbitzkogel summit and continue right following the signs for Fuchskogel; we arrive at the cross on Fuchskogel in a few minutes of further walking; the highest point of the summit is located slightly to the right and another minute further.
Starting point - Angerkogel 3:00, Angerkogel - Feldalmhütte 0:45, Feldalmhütte - St. Martiner Hütte 0:55, St. Martiner Hütte 0:55 - Stoanahütte 0:40, Stoanahütte - Fuchskogel 1:35.
The description and photos refer to the conditions in October 2025.

On the way: Angerlkogel (1774m), Pfannegger Kreuz (1784m), Feldalmhütte (1751m), Zellkreuz (1718m), St. Martiner Hütte (1710m), Judenburger Kreuz (1764m), Stoanahütte (1748m)