Schwarzkogelhütte - Grünhütte (western path)

Access to starting point:
a) Over the Ljubelj border crossing we drive into Austria and follow the signs for Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In Celovec at McDonalds we go right on the south bypass road / Südring, and at the next larger crossroad we go once again right in the direction towards Velikovec / Völkermarkt and Mostič / Brückl. The road towards Velikovec we soon leave because a little after the store Obi we turn right in the direction of highway and Mostič. Further, we go past the store Ikea, where we follow the signs for Mostič and we go past the turn-offs to the highway. When we get to Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely after the settlement Mösel we turn right towards the mountain pass Klippitztörl and settlement Lölling. Further, we start considerably ascending through the valley of the stream Löllingbach, and higher after the settlement Lölling, we gradually go away also from the stream. We follow this road all the way to the Klippitztörl pass, from where we start descending. During the descent, the path leads us past the Naturfreundehaus hut, but we continue descending to the settlement of Klippitztörl, where we turn left and head uphill towards the Hohenwarthütte hut. A shorter ascent follows, then a left-hand hairpin, and we arrive at a large parking lot located next to the ski slope and the aforementioned hut.
B) Over the border crossing Jezerski Vrh, Holmec or Vič we drive to Austria, and then we follow the signs for Velikovec / Völkermarkt, and from there we follow the signs for Mostič / Brückl. When we get to Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely after the settlement Mösel we turn right towards the mountain pass Klippitztörl and settlement Lölling. Further, we start considerably ascending through the valley of the stream Löllingbach, and higher after the settlement Lölling, we gradually go away also from the stream. We follow this road all the way to the Klippitztörl pass, from where we start descending. During the descent, the path leads us past the Naturfreundehaus hut, but we continue descending to the settlement of Klippitztörl, where we turn left and head uphill towards the Hohenwarthütte hut. A shorter ascent follows, then a left-hand hairpin, and we arrive at a large parking lot located next to the ski slope and the aforementioned hut.
c) We leave the Klagenfurt am Wörthersee – Graz motorway at the Bad St. Leonhard im Lavanttal exit, then follow the signs for Zeltweg and Reichenfels. Further on, we drive along Obdacher Straße, but after a good 2 km we leave it and turn left towards the Klippitztörl pass. We then ascend along the rising asphalt road, following it to the settlement of Klippitztörl, where we turn sharply right towards the Hohenwarthütte hut. A shorter ascent follows, then a left-hand hairpin, and we arrive at a large parking lot located next to the ski slope and the aforementioned hut.

Path description:
From the mountain hut, we head onto the road marked with signs for the peak Hohenwart and the mountain hut Hohenwarthütte, initially ascending moderately past a few more holiday cottages. A little further on, we leave the road slightly to the right and climb up a grassy slope, soon coming very close to the road again, but instead of following it, we continue ascending to the right of the road. Higher up, the path leads us through a strip of forest; once we emerge from the forest, we briefly descend a little and again come very close to the road. This is followed by a few minutes of steeper ascent along the line of a ski slope, after which we return to the road and follow it all the way to the mountain hut Hohenwarthütte. We bypass the hut on its left side and continue up the road to a broader ridge, then follow the ridge to a junction beside the reservoir lake.
We continue straight toward Zirbitzkogel (left: one of the paths to the mountain pass Klippitztörl; right: peak Hohenwart) and begin descending along a wide cart track; where the track temporarily flattens, we turn left downhill onto a footpath that descends somewhat more steeply. A few minutes lower down, we join a gently sloping path that leads from the Klippitztörl pass towards the Zirbitzkogel summit; we follow the path to the right towards Zirbitzkogel. When we reach a junction where a trail branches off slightly to the right towards the Grünhütte mountain hut, we continue slightly to the right in that direction (slightly to the left leads to Zirbitzkogel).
Immediately after the junction we leave the forest and descend diagonally across a panoramic slope. A few minutes lower we reach the edge of the forest, where we turn right and then quickly descend to the Grünhütte cottage.
Schwarzkogelhütte - Hohenwarthütte 0:30, Hohenwarthütte - Grünhütte 0:45.
Description and photographs refer to conditions in November 2025.

On the way: Hohenwarthütte (1720m)