Turracher Höhe - Gesgeralm

Access to starting point:
A) Via the Ljubelj border crossing we drive into Austria, then we follow the road towards Celovec / Klagenfurt. In Celovec at all crossroads we continue straight, when the main road turns sharply to the right, we leave it a little further on and continue left towards the settlements Dhovše pri Celovcu / Lendorf and Trg na Koroškem / Feldkirchen in Kärnten. When we arrive at the motorway junction we go left towards the settlement Trg na Koroškem, when we arrive at the mentioned settlement we further follow the signs for the alpine pass Turracher Höhe. After approximately 90 km from the Ljubelj border crossing we arrive at the mentioned pass, from which we descend to parking lot No. 1 where we park.
B) Through the Karawanks Tunnel we drive into Austria, then we drive on the motorway to the motorway junction, from which we continue towards Spittal an der Drau and continue driving on motorway A10. We quickly leave motorway A10 and drive to the exit for Ossiacher See / Osojsko jezero, at the nearby roundabout we choose the third exit (if there were no roundabout we would go left) and further we drive on Millstätter Strasse. On the mentioned road we drive to the settlement Radenče / Radenthein, where we turn right towards the settlement Bad Kleinkirchheim. Further we drive through the mentioned settlement, a few kilometres ahead in the settlement Patergassen we turn left towards the alpine pass and ski area Turracher Höhe. When we arrive at the mentioned pass a shorter descent follows to parking lot No. 1, where we park. From the Karavanke border crossing to the starting point it is approximately 78 km.

Path description:
From the parking lot we first carefully cross the main road, then we walk to Hotel Hochschober, behind which we continue on the macadam road in the direction of lake Schwarzsee, peak Eisenhut and other peaks. At first a nice view opens up from the path on lake Turrachsee, then we gradually distance ourselves from the lake. Soon we arrive at the tourist settlement Meizeit Hüttendorf, where the last view opens up on lake Turrachsee and where the path splits.
To the right a path branches off towards lake Grünsee, we continue straight towards peaks Eisenhut and Schoberrigel and lake Schwarzsee, at the next crossroad we go slightly left towards peak Eisenhut (slightly right Schoberrigel and Eisenhut over the mentioned peak).
A shorter ascent follows on the macadam road and we arrive at the former hotel located at the southwestern part of lake Schwarzsee, we then descend in a gentle descent to the northern shore of the lake.
From the lake we continue on the marked road, which we continue to follow in the direction of peak Eisenhut. On the road, which mostly leads with nice views, only occasionally through a short stretch of forest, we mostly descend gently, after crossing a somewhat larger stream the road turns north, where we already arrive at the lower part of alpine pasture Gesgeralm. Just a few dozen steps further ahead, after crossing the grazing fence we leave the road and continue right, across the steeper slope. After a short ascent we quickly arrive at a small hut, we then ascend on a somewhat muddy and in places more overgrown path to the upper part of the alpine pasture, where another hut stands on the right side.
Turracher Höhe - Schwarzsee 0:25, Schwarzsee - Gesgeralm 0:50.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2019 (June).

On the way: Hotel Hochschober (1763m), Meizeit Hüttendorf (1785m), Schwarzsee (pri Turracher Höhe) (1841m)

Trip can be extended to: Gillendorferalm (1 h) , Wintertalernock (3 h 45 min) , Straßburger Spitz (3 h 30 min) , Eisenhut