Trnje / Dornach - Singerberg / Žingarica

Access to starting point:
A) Via the Ljubelj border crossing, we drive into Austria, where along the main road towards Celovec / Klagenfurt am Wörtersee we drive to the second roundabout, from which we continue driving in the direction of the Bistrica v Rožu / Feistritz im Rosental exit (we leave the main road towards Celovec before crossing the Drava River). In the settlement Struga / Strau we turn left towards Kapli / Kappel an der Drau, and in the mentioned settlement after the church we turn left. The village soon ends, at the chapel we go left and then we already arrive at the settlement Trnje / Dornach, where at the hiking signpost the described path begins. At the starting point there are no designated parking spaces.
B) From Dravograd or Slovenj Gradec we drive to Ravne na Koroškem, then we continue driving in the direction of the Holmec border crossing. When we enter Austria we first drive towards Pliberku / Bleiburg, then we follow the signs for Globasnico / Globasnitz and further Železni Kapli / Bad Eisenkappel, Borovljam / Ferlach. After Borovljam at the roundabout we join the road via the Ljubelj border crossing. Here at the first roundabout we continue in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt, at the second in the direction of Bistrica v Rožu / Feistritz im Rosental. In the settlement Struga / Strau we turn left towards Kapli / Kappel an der Drau, and in the mentioned settlement after the church left. The village soon ends, at the chapel we go left and then we already arrive at the settlement Trnje / Dornach, where at the hiking signpost the described path begins. At the starting point there are no designated parking spaces.

Path description:
From the described starting point we continue along the right road in the direction of Žingarica / Singerberg, where the path leads past a few more houses. Above the village the asphalt ends, the road turns into forest, but at the sign for the forest road we leave it and continue slightly right onto the marked footpath. After a few minutes of ascent we return to the road, along which we ascend for some time, but when the blazes direct us left from it, we continue along the marked path. After a short ascent the path flattens and a little further we cross an intersection of forest roads and cart tracks. For a short time we continue along the stream, then the path turns slightly left and ascends through a belt of forest. Soon we reach a cart track, which ends after a few steps, but we ascend along the mountain path to the next cart track; the path then brings us a little further to the farm Žingar / Singerbauer.
We continue along the poorer road, which leads us across a meadow and quickly to a marked junction.
From the junction we go left in the direction of Žingarica (straight to saddle Albnik / Halbingsattel and Žingarica via the mentioned saddle), and the path leads us for a short time longer across a panoramic meadow, after which it enters the forest. For a short time we ascend through the forest, then we reach a poorer road, along which we continue for a few minutes. After a smaller intersection, where we go right, the blazes lead us left onto a somewhat more overgrown mountain path. Above the overgrown section the path enters the forest, where we cross a few cart tracks, and higher up we also cross the forest road several times. A steep ascent follows, where we ascend in shorter serpentines. Higher the path turns somewhat right and temporarily ascends even more steeply. Crossing a pasture fence follows, where the path reaches the ridge, flattens and turns right.
Less than 5 minutes of walking follow and the path brings us to the summit of Žingarica; for a nice view it is worth walking a further ten or so paces.
The description and pictures refer to the condition in 2018 (June).

On the way: Žingar / Singerbauer (831m)