Tonnerhütte - Scharfes Eck

Access to starting point:
A) Over the Ljubelj border crossing we drive to Austria and follow the signs for Celovec / Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In Celovec at McDonald's we go right on the south bypass road / Südring, and at the next larger intersection we go once again right 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, 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 / Štajersko. We reach Mühlen by turning right from the main road, and through the settlement we follow the signs for Jakobsberg and Tonnerhütte hut, higher only the signs for Tonnerhütte hut, where we park on a paid parking lot (4 EUR 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 / Štajersko. We reach Mühlen by turning right from the main road, and through the settlement we follow the signs for Jakobsberg and Tonnerhütte hut, higher only the signs for Tonnerhütte hut, where we park on a paid parking lot (4 EUR 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). Initially we walk on the road which ascends diagonally towards the right, only a little after the left turn we leave it and continue right in the direction of Zirbitzkogel. The path ahead leads us along the edge of the ski slope route, when the ski slope ends the path flattens temporarily. We follow the marked path, which through a belt of forest brings us to expansive pastures, where we quickly reach the viewpoint Herterhöhe, where panoramic panels are located.
We continue straight towards Zirbitzkogel, where with increasingly beautiful views we reach the next marked junction, where to the left branches a path towards the peaks Kreiskogel (2306 m) and Wenzelalpe (2151 m) and mountain hut Winterleitenhütte (1782 m), we continue straight ahead. A fairly even ascent follows, which offers nice views; before crossing the first stream a winter path to Zirbitzkogel branches off to the left (the turn-off is not marked and harder to notice), we continue across the stream and begin to ascend diagonally to the right. Further 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 left towards Zirbitzkogel (straight over the fence and then left lake Lavantsee, right Fuschkogel), where we continue along the ridge. At first we still ascend moderately, then a few shorter steeper ascents follow, when we approach the summit the path moves away from the ridge to the right, then in a diagonal ascent we reach the Zirbitzkogelhaus hut.
We bypass the hut on the left side, then continue straight towards the Scharfes Eck summit (left Zirbitzkogel peak 2 minutes). First a diagonal descent follows, then we reach the ridge which connects Zirbitzkogel with Scharfes Eck. Here from the left first the winter path from Tonnerhütte hut joins, then another path. Both times we continue straight; when the wider marked path turns right towards Winterleitenhütte hut, we continue straight again and ascend the panoramic ridge to the radar on Scharfes Eck in a few minutes.
Starting point - Herterhöhe 0:40, Herterhöhe - Zirbitzkogelhaus 1:50, Zirbitzkogelhaus - Scharfes Eck 0:30.

On the way: Herterhöhe (1800m), Zirbitzkogel Hütte (Seetaler Alpe) (2376m)