Heidi Alm - Schwarzkofel (ridge path)

Access to starting point:
A) Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving on Tauern highway, which we leave already on Villach bypass road and we continue driving towards the settlement Feldkirchen. Further, we drive by lake Osojsko jezero / Ossiacher See to the already mentioned settlement. In Feldkirchen we continue left in the direction of the mountain pass Turacher Höhe and we drive ahead past settlements Himmelberg, Gnesau, Mitterdorf to the settlement Wiedweg, where from the left also the road from Bad Kleinkircheim joins. From the mentioned crossroad, we continue towards the mountain pass Turacher Höhe only for few 100 meters and then signs for mountain pasture Heidialm and village and lake Falkertsee point us to the left on an ascending road. We follow the mentioned road to its end, where we park on one of the many parking lots.
B) From Štajerska or Koroška, we at first drive to Dravograd and then over the border crossing Vič into Austria, where we then follow the signs for Celovec / Klagenfurt. Further, we drive on the so-called South highway, which we leave at Klagenfurt (direction Feldkirchen). Further, we drive on a regional road, on which we get to the already mentioned settlement. In Feldkirchen we continue right in the direction of the mountain pass Turacher Höhe and we drive ahead past settlements Himmelberg, Gnesau, Mitterdorf to the settlement Wiedweg, where from the left also the road from Bad Kleinkircheim joins. From the mentioned crossroad, we continue towards the mountain pass Turacher Höhe only for few 100 meters and then signs for mountain pasture Heidialm and village and lake Falkertsee point us to the left on an ascending road. We follow the mentioned road to its end, where we park on one of the many parking lots.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we go in the direction of park Heidi-Alm to which we have 130 meters. After 130 meters path branches off to the left towards the mentioned park (to view the park we have to pay the entrance fee), and we go straight and we still continue on the road, and it quickly brings us to high mountain lake Falkertsee.
From the lake, which we bypass on the left side, the path starts moderately ascending and continues on an increasingly bad road. And a little higher we get to a marked crossing, where we continue left in the direction of the peak Rodresnock (straight saddle Falkertscharte, Rodresnock and Falkert over the mentioned saddle and the climbing path on Falkert). The path ahead, at first crosses gentle slopes towards the left and then passes on steep slopes of Rodresnock, where it starts ascending steeply. With nice views on lake Falkertsee and eponymous village we ascend a level higher, where the path flattens and turns to the right and quickly comes on a panoramic and unvegetated ridge. Further, we are ascending on and by the ridge, which is on the left side ample and grassy, and on the right side it is steeply descending towards the cirque between Rodresnock and the peak Falkert. Occasionally a steeper ridge path, from which beautiful views opening up, which reach all the way to Slovenian mountains, then flattens and it brings us on a poorly marked crossing, where left downwards a marked, but worse beaten footpath branches off, which leads on the nearby Schwarzkofel and forward towards the valley.
We continue in the mentioned direction (straight Rodresnock 5 minutes) and we continue on a small footpath which starts descending steeper towards the southeast. After few minutes, the path flattens and brings us on a wide grassy ridge, on which we continue a gentle descent. Even a little lower we get to an indistinct saddle between Rodresnock and Schwarzkofel. From here on, we start gently ascending, and we follow the panoramic path all the way to the top of Shcwarzkofel, which we can see for quite some time.

On the way: Falkertsee (1872m)