Klippitztörl - Pressner Alpe

Access to starting point:
a) Over the Ljubelj border crossing we drive into Austria and follow the signs for Celovec by Lake Wörthersee / Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In Celovec at McDonald's we turn right onto the south bypass / Südring, at the next major intersection we turn right again towards Velikovec / Völkermarkt and Mostič / Brückl. We soon leave the road towards Velikovec as shortly after the Obi store we turn right towards the highway and Mostič. We then pass the Ikea store, following the signs for Mostič and past the on-ramps to the highway. 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. Further on, we begin to ascend more noticeably up the valley of the Löllingbach stream, higher up, past the settlement Lölling, we gradually distance ourselves from the stream as well. 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. Further on, we begin to ascend more noticeably up the valley of the Löllingbach stream, higher up, past the settlement Lölling, we gradually distance ourselves from the stream as well. 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 motorway Klagenfurt am Wörthersee - Graz at the Šentlenart exit in Labotska dolina / Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal, then follow the signs for Zeltweg and Reichenfels. Further on, we drive 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. From it a little further we go right onto a path that climbs above the road. After a short ascent, we reach another cart track, which we follow to the right. Next, we walk for a while along the cart track, from which we several times get a view of the rather distant Zirbitzkogel. We then gradually arrive on the slopes of Hohenwart, where at several junctions we continue straight or keep to the left marked paths that have signs for Zirbitzkogel.
After a longer traverse, we reach the northern ridge of Hohenwart, from where we start descending more noticeably while continuing to keep left at the junctions. Further on, we walk for some time along a pasture. When looking to the right, a view opens towards the Packalpe mountain group. When the path lower down stops descending, we cross a somewhat wider macadam road.
We continue following the signs for Zirbitzkogel. After a short ascent, we return into the forest, which begins to thin out higher up. A little further on, we ascend moderately along a panoramic clearing. With beautiful views that extend all the way to the Julian Alps, we return into sparse forest. We pass an interesting hunting observatory and then continue easily along a gentle, indistinct ridge, where we almost imperceptibly reach the summit of Angerlkogel, which we recognize by the trigonometric point.
A little further from the highest point of the peak we leave the forest and with a glance to the left side a view opens up that reaches all the way to Triglav and even further to the Italian mountains, while we start descending along a grassy slope towards a smaller saddle, where we cross a macadam road and then continue the ascent on a marked path in the direction of the Feldalmhütte hut. Next follows an easy ascent, at first still through sparse forest, higher up along a gentle grassy slope, with the path leading us slightly to the right of the ridge of Pressner Alpe. A little further on, the path levels out completely amidst the blueberry bushes and we reach the Pfanneger Kreuz cross, where the marked trail turns right, while we continue straight ahead following the old markings towards the St. Martiner Hütte hut.
The poorer and subsequently unmarked path then leads us along the grazing fence, or at first slightly to the right of it; when the slope becomes steeper, the footpath keeps directly alongside the fence. A bit higher, where the path flattens again, we reach the indistinct summit of Pressner Alpe, which lies on the ridge of the same name.
Starting point – Angerlkogel 3:00, Angerlkogel – Pressner Alpe 0:45.
The description and photographs reflect conditions in October 2025.

On the way: Angerlkogel (1774m)