Lienzer Dolomitenhütte - Karlsbader Hütte
Starting point: Lienzer Dolomitenhütte (1620 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.7911°N 12.7842°E 
Time of walking: 2 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: easily
Altitude difference: 641 m
Altitude difference (by path): 641 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and 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. A few kilometers before Lienz (near the settlement Unterdorf), we will notice signs for the mountain hut Lienzer Dolomitenhütte, which direct us left onto a local road. The road then crosses the river Drava/Drau over a bridge and brings us to the village Lavant, where we continue right in the direction of the village Tristach. Between the villages Lavant and Tristach we will come to the next crossroad, where we continue left in the direction of "Lienzer Dolomitenhütte". This road, which starts ascending steeper, we then follow to a large parking lot near the mentioned mountain hut. The road is payable (July 2009 7€).
To Lienz we can also come if, instead of through the Drau valley, we drive through the Gailtal valley (Korensko sedlo, Hermagor, mountain pass Ziljsko sedlo/Gailbergsattel); in this case, we arrive in the Drau valley at the settlement Oberdrauburg.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road, along which in 2 minutes we arrive at the mountain hut Lienzer Dolomitenhütte.
From the hut, we cross the fence and continue the ascent on a panoramic road (nice view of the serrated ridge - highest is Spitzkofel 2717 m), which in the initial part is exposed to falling rocks. The road then crosses a short strip of forest and brings us to the indistinct saddle Premstall (1625 m), where there is a small junction.
We continue straight past the trough with water (left upwards Weißstein Alm) on the road, which after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the small alpine pasture Instein Alm, on which we notice a small wooden hut and slightly above it a chapel.
We continue further on the road, which quickly brings us to a marked junction, where we leave it.
We continue the ascent on a wide mountain path, which starts to ascend somewhat more steeply, through increasingly sparse forest. The path, from which very nice views open up, crosses the mountain road several times and higher brings us to a small wooden shelter. At the shelter we leave the road again and continue the ascent along a gentle high-alpine valley surrounded by high peaks. The gentle path, which runs along the torrent stream, higher turns right and ascends more steeply for a short time. We follow this panoramic path all the way to the mountain hut Karlsbader Hütte (near the hut there is also Lake Laserzsee), which we reach after a few minutes of further walking.
We can also reach the hut along the mountain road.
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