Iličev rovt / Illitsch Rauth - Mittagskogel/Kepa (path 680)
Starting point: Iličev rovt / Illitsch Rauth (1180 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.5239°N 13.9513°E 
Path name: path 680
Time of walking: 3 h
Difficulty: difficult marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 963 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1000 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we drive on a highway towards towards Beljak, which we leave at the first exit Kot / Winkl. When we reach the main road through Rož / Rosental, we continue right in the direction of the lake Baško jezero / Faaker See. On the main road we drive for few kilometers, and then at the beginning of the settlement Spodnje Dobje / Unteraichwald, we continue quite sharply left on the local road, by which there are signs (signs are from the opposite direction and are harder to notice from our side) for Kepa / Mittagskogel, Koča Berta / Bertahütte and Kopanje / Kopein (we leave the main road about 200 meters before Hotel Mittagskogel). Further, we at first still drive on an asphalt road which at the crossroads we follow in the direction of hut Koča Berta. Higher the macadam road becomes quite bad, and we are driving there to the marked parking lot in Iličev rovt / Illitsch Rauth. If the road is too bad, we can park already lower, on an appropriate place by the road.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue to the gate, and behind it, the path splits. We choose the left path, which goes into the forest (straight path on the road) and gradually starts ascending steeply. Soon from the left joins the path from a lower starting point, and we continue the ascent. Higher, we twice for some time step on the road, and then we continue on a footpath towards hut Koča Berta. Further, the path turns a little to the right and it is gradually becoming less steep. When we step out of the forest, in front of us we already notice hut Koča Berta, to which we have only a short walk.
From the hut, we descend on the road to the nearby saddle Borovščica / Ferlacher Sattel, and from there we continue slightly left on a marked path in the direction of Kepa (left Podrožca / Rosenbach, slightly right Kepa on northeastern ridge, right downwards our starting point). The path ahead is at first quite gentle and mostly crosses slopes towards the left. When the path starts ascending, we quickly get to a crumbly gully, where after the rain the path can be damaged, and for this purpose in front of the gully there are tools to repair the path. In the second part of the crossing of the gully, we get help from some more fixed safety gear, and then for some time we steeply ascend. Further, we are ascending on a nicely made path, which crosses few more gullies, but the passage through them is easier. The increasingly panoramic path is getting closer to the walls of Dovška Mala Kepa, but it doesn't run right below the wall, because between the path and the wall there is a bigger torrent, so that the path isn't too exposed to falling stones. Higher, the path turns to the right, where we cross two more gullies, and then follows a quite steady ascent towards the national border. On last part of the ascent to the national border the slope becomes steeper, and when we reach the border ridge, from the left joins also a marked path from Erjavčev rovt.
We continue right, where we at first walk on the ridge and then the path passes on the Austrian side, where to the main peak, which we reach after few minutes of additional walking, we are ascending diagonally.
Iličev rovt - Koča Berta 0:55, Koča Berta - Kepa 2:05.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (August).
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