Rosstratte - Dobratsch / Dobrač (by road)

Access to the starting point:
First we drive to Kranjska Gora, then we continue driving towards Rateče. When you reach Podkoren, leave the main road and continue driving to the right towards Korenski sedlo. From the saddle, descend to the Austrian side, where you turn right in the valley towards Bialjak / Villach. Continue through the village of Ločilo / Hart to Bialek, where signs for Spittal direct you to the bypass road past the town. The road then soon leads to Judendorf (a suburb of Belgrade), and just ahead we see signs for the Beljac Alpine Road / Villacher Alpenstrasse. Here we turn right and follow the road to the parking lot, which is located at 1732 m (the road is toll road €14 car and €8 motorbike, July 2012).
From the Koren saddle to the top of the Beljaška cesta is about 32 km.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the narrow asphalt road, which is closed to public traffic by a traffic sign. The asphalt soon ends and the road leads past a pasture fence to a marked crossroads, where a marked trail to Plajberk near Bialjak / Bad Bleiberg branches off to the right, and we continue to the left and follow the ascending dirt road leading to the Dobratsch summit. After a short climb, we reach a sharp right turn, in the middle of which an unmarked path branches off, leading to Dobratsch, and we continue for a short distance along a relatively steep and increasingly scenic road. Higher up, where the slope flattens out a little, we reach a marked crossroads. At this crossroads, leave the road and continue slightly left on the marked path, which begins to climb steeply up the grassy slope. The not too steep path then leads us quickly past a bench to the top of Zehnernock, which we recognise by the hut at the top.
Bypass the hut on the left and then descend to the edge of the cliffs. A few minutes of relatively easy walking follows along the path, which opens up a beautiful view of the valley, Karawanks and the Julian Alps. As the cliffs on the left give way to less steep slopes, the path begins to descend. A few minutes of downhill then join the unmarked trail mentioned above.
Continue straight ahead here, following the initially still sloping path, and then change to the lane of dwarf pines, through which you start to climb steeply. The track soon lays down and leads you for a while through a more plateau-like world. There is a short steep climb and the path leads to a ridge with a view, along which we continue our ascent. As the ridge is wide and quite sloping to the right, it does not cause us any problems. Higher up, we join a dirt road, which takes us a few steps to the Ludwig Walter-Haus hut.
From the hut, it is a minute's walk to the German church, and from there, along a slightly narrower ridge, to the summit and the Slovenian church.
The part of the path between the German church and the Dobratsch peak is dangerous to slip on in the snow.

On the way: Zehnernock (1956m)

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