Klammbrückl - Linderhütte
Starting point: Klammbrückl (1092 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.79024°N 12.76478°E 
Time of walking: 4 h 30 min
Difficulty: very difficult marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 1591 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1620 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive into Austria, then we continue driving towards Spittal and further towards Lienz (a little after Spittal, the highway ends). Further, we drive on a relatively nice and wide road through the Drau Valley. In the center of Lienz, at the main roundabout, we continue «left» and continue driving towards Italy (exit from the roundabout in the direction of the villages Leisach, Anras and Silian). Soon after the village of Leisach, we will notice signposts on the left side of the road, which direct us to a narrow wooden bridge over the river Drau (direction Kerschbaumer Alm, Klammbrückl). The road narrows a little after the bridge and starts ascending steeply. We follow the mentioned road to the parking lot at Klammbrückl.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road which is closed to traffic. Already after a few dozen meters, we come to a junction where we continue right following the signs «Kerschbaumer Alm». Further, we can follow the mountain road all the way or go on a footpath which runs through the forest and later joins the mountain road a few times for a short while.
When the road ends, we continue on a footpath which starts ascending on the right side of the valley. The path through a thin forest brings us to slightly steeper slopes and then to a vantage point from where we can nicely see the waterfall Klapffall. Then the path turns slightly to the left and approaches the mountain stream. Next follows an ascent along the stream and then the path brings us to the mountain pasture Kerschbaumer Alm. The path here runs on the left side of the mountain pasture and follows only a short ascent on a grassy slope past rare trees to the hut Schutzhaus.
At the hut where there is a marked junction, we continue right following the signs «Hallebachtörl, Spitzkofel». The path further runs towards the southwest and ascends on grassy slopes beside a rare larch forest. After approximately 20 minutes of walking from the hut, the path brings us to another marked junction.
Slightly to the left leads the path towards the summit Weittalspitze on which we have had a nice view from the path for some time. At the junction, we continue right towards the saddle Hallebachtörl. The path here ascends beside increasingly rare larches and brings us to slightly flatter grassy slopes from which a view opens towards the summit Kreuzkofel. After crossing the grassy slopes, the path turns to the right and follows the ascent to the saddle Hallebachtörl.
From the saddle from where a view towards the summit Spitzkofel opens up, we slightly descend and the path quickly brings us to another junction.
To the left leads the path towards the saddle Kühbodentörl, while we continue right towards the summit Spitzkofel. From the junction, the path then crosses scree towards the north and from the right an unmarked path from the valley Hallebachtal joins quite unnoticeably. The path across the scree then turns slightly to the right and starts ascending somewhat more steeply. When we come below the slopes of the peak Spitzkofel, the path turns to the left and brings us to a gully. Here the path becomes more demanding and ascends the gully upwards along the steel cable. In early summer, there can still be snow in the gully. From the gully, we then continue right upwards and ascend a few more times along the steel cable. The more experienced will manage the ascent even without self-belaying. Such a path then soon brings us to the bivouac Linderhütte.
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