Klippitztörl - Hohenwart

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 McDonald's we go right onto the south bypass / Südring, at the next larger intersection we go right again in the direction of Velikovec / Völkermarkt and Mostič / Brückl. We soon leave the road towards Velikovec as just after the Obi store we turn right in the direction of the highway and Mostič. We then go past the Ikea store, where we follow the signs for Mostič and past the highway on-ramps. When we arrive in Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely past the settlement Mösel, we turn right towards the Klippitztörl pass and the settlement Lölling. We then begin to ascend more noticeably up the valley of the Löllingbach stream, higher up, past the settlement Lölling, we gradually distance ourselves also from the stream. We follow this road all the way to the Klippitztörl pass, where we turn right and park on the larger asphalt parking lot.
b) Over the Jezerski Vrh, Holmec or Vič border crossings we drive into Austria, then we follow the signs for Velikovec / Völkermarkt, from there the signs for Mostič / Brückl. When we arrive in Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely past the settlement Mösel, we turn right towards the Klippitztörl pass and the settlement Lölling. We then begin to ascend more noticeably up the valley of the Löllingbach stream, higher up, past the settlement Lölling, we gradually distance ourselves also from the stream. We follow this road all the way to the Klippitztörl pass, where we turn right and park on the 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. We continue along Obdacher Straße, which after about 2 km of driving we leave and continue left towards the Klippitztörl pass. This is followed by approximately 15 km of ascending asphalt road, which we follow past the Naturfreundehaus hut to the Klippitztörl pass, where we turn left onto the asphalt parking lot 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 on a gently sloping path and a little further ahead we cross a pasture fence, about a minute later we turn sharply left (straight ahead the Hohenwarthütte), and ascend to a wooden cross.
At the cross the path turns back to the right and then traverses uphill slightly to the right of the ridge; as the forest thins out, the path gradually moves onto the ridge itself, where we reach a panoramic fore-summit.
This is followed by an easy descent to a junction next to the upper station of the Sommerrodelbahn, where we join the trail that starts from the tourist settlement Klippitztörl.
We continue straight ahead (left down to Zirbitzkogel, right down to the tourist settlement Klippitztörl), thereby bypassing the reservoir on its right side.
A short but increasingly panoramic ascent follows, and we arrive at the summit cross on top of the mountain.
The description refers to the conditions in November 2025; the photos are from October and November 2025.