Tonnerhütte - Fuchskogel

Access to starting point:
A) Over the border crossing Ljubelj we drive to Austria and follow the signs for Celovec / Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In Celovec at McDonald's we go right onto the south bypass / Südring, and at the next larger intersection we go right again in the direction towards Velikovec / Völkermarkt and Mostič / Brückl. We soon leave the road towards Velikovec because a little after the Obi store we turn right in the direction of the highway and Mostič. Further on, we go past the Ikea store, where we follow the signs for Mostič and past the turn-offs to the highway. When we get to Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg and then Mühlen, which is already located in Steiermark. We reach Mühlen by turning right off the main road, and through the settlement we follow the signs for Jakobsberg and mountain hut Tonnerhütte, higher up only the signs for mountain hut Tonnerhütte, where we park on a paid parking lot (4 € personal car, June 2020).
B) Over the border crossings Jezerski Vrh, Holmec or Vič we drive to Austria, then we follow the signs for Velikovec / Völkermarkt, from there the signs for Mostič / Brückl. When we get to Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg and then Mühlen, which is already located in Steiermark. We reach Mühlen by turning right off the main road, and through the settlement we follow the signs for Jakobsberg and mountain hut Tonnerhütte, higher up only the signs for mountain hut Tonnerhütte, where we park on a paid parking lot (4 € personal car, June 2020).

Path description:
From the parking lot, we walk above the mountain hut, where the path splits, and we choose the right panorama path / Panoramaweg (left Zirbenweg). At first we walk on the road which ascends diagonally to the right, only a little after the left bend we leave it and continue right in the direction of Zirbitzkogel. The path ahead leads us along the edge of the ski slope piste, when the ski slope ends the path flattens temporarily. We follow the marked path, which through a strip of forest brings us to extensive pastures, where we quickly reach the viewpoint Herterhöhe, where panoramic panels are located.
We continue straight towards Zirbitzkogel, where with ever better views we reach the next marked junction, where to the left a path branches off towards the peaks Kreiskogel (2306 m) and Wenzelalpe (2151 m) and mountain hut Winterleitenhütte (1782 m), we continue straight ahead. There follows a fairly even ascent which offers nice views, before crossing the first stream a winter path to Zirbitzkogel branches off to the left (the junction is not marked and harder to notice), we continue across the stream and begin to ascend diagonally to the right. Further on we cross more streams, and on the southwestern slopes of Zirbitzkogel we ascend to the south ridge, where there is a marked junction.
We continue right towards Fuchskogel (left Zirbitzkogel, straight over the fence and then left Lavantsee lake), where we continue on the panoramic ridge, along which we descend easily. After approximately 15 minutes of easy descent we arrive near Fuchskogel, where in a few dozen steps we easily ascend to a small saddle, where left and right of the marked path there are two approximately equally high peaks, the left one, which is only slightly higher, is the summit of Fuchskogel, to which we ascend after one minute of further walking.
Starting point - Herterhöhe 0:40, Herterhöhe - Fuchskogel 1:40.

On the way: Herterhöhe (1800m)

Trip can be extended to: Zirbitzkogel Hütte (Seetal Alps) , Zirbitzkogel (Seetal Alps)