Parking below Polinikhütte - Polinik

Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we follow the highway past Beljak to exit towards Lienz, where after Lendorf we turn right towards Obervellach. Here by the gas station, we turn right, after few meters by swimming pool to the left in the center and by the end of a shorter main street once again left into the underpass (670 meters). We follow numerous signs for Polinikhütte: over narrow iron bridge, through tree-lined road, past speed limit 5 km/h and ahead in the forest. Asphalt soon vanishes, steep macadam road after few kilometers ends on a small parking lot by the gate (around 1350 meters). To here we can get also by bus from Obervellacha. One turn before is turn-off towards Wunzenalm, where used to be a cargo cableway for the mountain hut. Cableway is gone, but the footpath is still there.

Path description:
After the gate for we some time walk on the road (on map it has number 328, on terrain there isn't any numbers), we then follow the signs in the forest. The footpath, covered with a carpet from larch and spruce needles, few times crosses a road and brings us on Stampferalm, where on panoramic spot at an altitude 1873 meters there is a romantic mountain hut Polinik.
From the mountain hut, we follow the signs (on map path 326) for some time through the forest, then on a wide slopes, vegetated with rhododendron and blueberries. After one hour just before the ruins of a cattle pen footpath branches off on Ebeneck 2131 meters, to which is another half an hour (path 329). We continue gently, still in a gentle ascent, we cross the slopes. All the time in front of us is elegant pyramid Gamskarspitze 2580 meters. We walk across some broad ridges, which are descending from the right from the ridge Moernigkoepfe, in which there is around 10 pathless peaks; lowest is Ebeneck, and the highest reaches 2656 meters. A well-marked footpath is winding at the juncture of the slope and the scree.
Access on the upper ridge is secured with some shorter loose steel cables. Also on otherwise wide enough, but short upper ridge with a view on a cross are some spots secured. Right below the summit joins the path from Flattach (325), which runs through gorge Raggaschlucht, past Raggahütte, over mountain pasture Raggaalm and Polinik.
From the top on this path to Flattach is 5 hours. Soon below the summit, the path 325 splits, one branch goes towards Kreuzeck and mountain hut Feldner (from the mountain hut Polinik 11 hours), and second the path becomes 336 and goes towards the parking lot at hotel Alpenheim above Napplach. By reliable wire we ascend also over the last, around 2 meters high plate to the cross with an inscription book and a stamp-pad (stamp is in the mountain hut).

On the way: Polinikhutte (1873m)