Parking below Polinikhütte - Polinik

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

Path description:
After the gate we walk for some time on the road (on the map it has number 328, on the terrain there are no such numbers), then we follow the signs into the forest. The footpath, covered with a carpet of larch and spruce needles, crosses the road several times and leads to Stampferalm, where on a panoramic spot at 1873 m there is the romantic hut Polinik.
From the hut we follow the signs (on the map it is path 326) for some time through the forest, then onto extensive slopes overgrown with rhododendron and blueberries. After one hour just before the ruins of the cattle pen a path branches off to Ebeneck 2131 m, to which it is another half hour (path 329). We continue gently, still in a gentle ascent crossing the slopes. All the time ahead of us is the elegant pyramid Gamskarspitze 2580 m. We cross several ridges descending from the right from the ridge Moernigkoepfe, in which around 10 pathless peaks are arranged stepwise; the lowest is Ebeneck, the highest reaches 2656 m. The well-marked footpath winds at the junction of the slope and scree.
Access to the summit ridge is secured with a few shorter loose steel cables. Also on the otherwise sufficiently wide but short summit ridge with a view of the cross there are a few secured spots. Just below the summit the path from Flattach joins (325), which leads through the gorge Raggaschlucht, past Raggahütte, over the pastures Raggaalm and Polinikalm.
From the summit via this path to Flattach is 5 hours. Soon below the summit path 325 splits, one branch goes towards Kreuzeck and hut Feldner (from hut Polinik 11 hours), the other becomes path 336 and goes to the parking lot at hotel Alpenheim above Napplach. Along the reliable wire we climb over the last, around 2 m high block to the cross with the register book and stamp pad (the stamp is in the hut).

On the way: Polinikhutte (1873m)