Untergreuth - Mittagskogel/Kepa (via 680)

Access to the starting point:
We go through the Karavanke tunnel and from there along the regional road to Bexstein / Finkenstein. A few 100 m before Ločany / Latschach, 639 m turn left onto the local road leading to the village of Ratenče, the local road leading to Lower Ruth / Untergreuth branches off on the left.

Path description:
From Spodnje Rut, signposts numbered 681 and 680 direct us south-west past the Martinihof guesthouse (marked on Slovenian maps with the Slovenian name Hoja) and from there along route 681, past the Kobvar homestead, to a steep woded hill descending into the gorge of the Borovnica stream. Here, the forest road leading to the hut is joined from the right, but it is closed to traffic by a gate. This area is called Iljčev rut. From here on, you can either follow the road or the path marked No 680 (also KWW - No 603), which runs along the road to the hut, with a parallel path running a little to the left of it. This avoids the many bends in the road and is much more pleasant and at the same time a shorter access. After a 2 h walk, you reach Berta's hut / Bertahütte, 1527 m, and in the immediate vicinity is the Hut under the Kepa / Mittagskogelhütte. There, direction signs point south to the Borovščica saddle / Ferlachersattel, 1500 m. You go down a forest road, then start climbing up a wide track, first over a scree slope and through dwarf pines. The gradient soon increases. We have to climb over a crumbly gully, where we are aided by ropes. Shortly afterwards, the track turns left under the crumbling wall of the Dovška Mala lump, which you go round in a semicircle to the south-west. The path momentarily flattens out, and in a few minutes you can see the saddle between Kepa and Dovška Mala Kepa above you, which you have to climb in numerous switchbacks along a steep gravel path. At the saddle, which lies on the Austrian-Slovenian border, you join the marked trail that leads to Kepa from Dovje past Erjavec's rovt. You have to climb up a wide grassy ridge to the top.

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