Klippitztörl - Grünhütte (via Hohenwarthütte)

Access to starting point:
a) Over the Ljubelj border crossing we drive into Austria and follow the signs for Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In Celovec at McDonalds we go right on the south bypass road / Südring, and at the next larger crossroad we go once again right in the direction towards Velikovec / Völkermarkt and Mostič / Brückl. The road towards Velikovec we soon leave because a little after the store Obi we turn right in the direction of highway and Mostič. Further, we go past the store Ikea, where we follow the signs for Mostič and we go past the turn-offs to the highway. When we get to Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely after the settlement Mösel we turn right towards the mountain pass Klippitztörl and settlement Lölling. Further, we start considerably ascending through the valley of the stream Löllingbach, and higher after the settlement Lölling, we gradually go away also from the stream. We follow this road all the way to mountain pass Klippitztörl, where we turn right and we park on a larger asphalt parking lot.
B) Over the border crossing Jezerski Vrh, Holmec or Vič we drive to Austria, and then we follow the signs for Velikovec / Völkermarkt, and from there we follow the signs for Mostič / Brückl. When we get to Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely after the settlement Mösel we turn right towards the mountain pass Klippitztörl and settlement Lölling. Further, we start considerably ascending through the valley of the stream Löllingbach, and higher after the settlement Lölling, we gradually go away also from the stream. We follow this road all the way to mountain pass Klippitztörl, where we turn right and we park on a larger asphalt parking lot.
c) We leave the Klagenfurt am Wörthersee – Graz motorway at the Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal exit, then follow the signs for Zeltweg and Reichenfels. Further on, we drive along Obdacher Straße, but after a good 2 km we leave it and turn left towards the Klippitztörl pass. This is followed by approximately 15 km of ascending asphalt road, which we follow past the Naturfreundehaus cottage up to the Klippitztörl pass, where we turn left onto the asphalt parking area and park in a suitable spot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head north, where we first carefully cross the main road and then continue on the footpath following the signs for Zirbitzkogel and Hohenwart. At first, we ascend diagonally through the forest. When we reach a cart track, we gradually begin descending diagonally. Lower down, we reach a macadam road, which we follow to the right. A little further on, we turn right onto a footpath that climbs above the road. After a short ascent, we reach another cart track, which we follow to the right. Next follows some walking on a cart track, from which a view opens up several times towards Zirbitzkogel, then we gradually reach the slopes of the peak Hohenwart, where we turn right in the direction of the path over Hohenwart (straight ahead the normal path towards Zirbitzkogel).
We continue along a gently sloping path and a little further ahead we cross a pasture fence, and about a minute later the path splits.
Sharply left towards the wooden cross continues the path to Hohenwart, while we continue straight ahead towards the mountain hut Hohenwarthütte and keep traversing the slopes to the right. A little further on, the path splits once again; this time we continue slightly left along a somewhat narrower cart track (the right cart track starts descending more noticeably), which a few minutes later crosses the line of the cable car and the summer toboggan run.
When we reach the ski slope we also arrive at a marked junction; we choose the path that continues along the road and begins to descend (left Zirbitzkogel and Hohenwart); after a short descent it brings us to the mountain hut Hohenwarthütte.
We bypass the hut on its lower right side, then at the first junction we turn left and continue along a cart track that traverses the slopes to the right. Further on, the path enters a strip of forest; when we leave the forest we cross another ski slope. From here we begin to descend more noticeably; when the path turns left we reach a marked junction, from which we continue left (slightly right Šentlenart in Labotska dolina / Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal) and keep descending along a mostly grassy cart track that lower down widens into a gravel road. Lower down, at several junctions we follow the waymarks; later we cross yet another ski slope; when the road enters the forest we leave it and continue left onto a cart track that has signs for the mountain hut Grünhütte. A short ascent through the forest follows, then with a few shorter ascents and descents we continue to the mountain hut Grünhütte.
Starting point - Hohenwarthütte 1:00, Hohenwarthütte - Grünhütte 0:35.
The description refers to the conditions in November 2025; the photos are from October and November 2025.

On the way: Hohenwarthütte (1720m)