Klippitztörl - St. Martiner Hütte

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 to Velikovec as shortly after the Obi store we turn right towards the highway and Mostič. Further on, we pass 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 after the settlement Mösel, we turn right towards the Klippitztörl pass and the settlement Lölling. Further on, we begin to ascend more noticeably through the valley of the Löllingbach stream, higher up, after the settlement Lölling, we gradually move away 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 after the settlement Mösel, we turn right towards the Klippitztörl pass and the settlement Lölling. Further on, we begin to ascend more noticeably through the valley of the Löllingbach stream, higher up, after the settlement Lölling, we gradually move away 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 the Labotska Valley / 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 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, 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 mountain hut Feldalmhütte. 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 ahead, among the blueberry bushes the path completely flattens and we arrive at the cross Pfannegger Kreuz, where the marked path turns right.
We continue right along a cart track that gradually widens into a poorer road, which mostly descends gently while traversing the slopes to the right. A little further on, the path turns left and quickly brings us to the hut Feldalmhütte.
We bypass the cottage on the upper left side, then turn left from the road onto a footpath following the signs for St. Martiner Hütte and Zirbitzkogel, and ascend diagonally across the northeastern slopes of the peak Zöhrerkogel. A few minutes further on, we reach the northeastern ridge of the mentioned peak and at the same time a poor macadam road; we merely cross the ridge (left along the ridge of Zöhrerkogel 20 minutes) and continue walking along the gently sloping road. Later we leave the poor road and head slightly left onto a footpath, which we follow diagonally to the northwestern ridge of the peak Zöhrerkogel (here an unmarked path joins from the left, leading over the mentioned peak).
We continue to the other side of the ridge and keep following the signs for St. Martiner Hütte; the path ahead descends diagonally to the left. Lower down, where the path temporarily stops descending, we pass three crosses, then continue along a panoramic slope which offers a beautiful view of the nearby Krške Alps, until we reach St. Martiner Hütte.
Starting point - Angerkogel 3:00, Angerkogel - Feldalmhütte 0:45, Feldalmhütte - St. Martiner Hütte 0:55.
The description and photographs reflect conditions in October 2025.

On the way: Angerlkogel (1774m), Pfannegger Kreuz (1784m), Feldalmhütte (1751m), Zellkreuz (1718m)