Tallach - Quadiaalm (via Kaltwasser)

Access to the starting point:
a) Take the Karavanke Tunnel into Austria, then leave the motorway at the first exit. When you reach the main road, turn left towards St. Jakob im Rosental. Continue along the Rosentalstraße, and after St. Jakob in the Roses, cross the Rosenbach stream. Just after the bridge, leave the main road and turn right into Tale / Tallach. Drive through the village, and when you reach the second road at Pension Lindenhof, just cross it and park in the parking lot behind the chapel.
b) Via Border crossing Ljubelj, drive into Austria and follow the main road towards Klagenfurt / Klagenfurt. Once in the valley, at the second roundabout, which is still on the right bank of the river Drava, take the exit Bistrica v Rožu / Feistritz im Rosental, and then follow the main road to Podgorje / Maria Elend. After the village, turn left towards Podrožce / Rosenbach. The road then leads to Tale / Tallach, where you turn left in front of the Pension Lindenhof and park in the parking lot next to the chapel.

Path description:
From the starting point, continue in the route mountain pasture Kladje / Quadiaalm, Kahlkogel / Kahlkogel and Maria Elend / Bergkapellen Maria Elend chapels. The road, which is closed to public traffic, soon leads you through an underpass under the railway line, and then you reach the first crossroads, where you continue right in the direction of Kahlkogel (straight ahead to the chapels). The road, which is quite winding and at which you see a notice that you are entering the bear area, then crosses the Radischgraben over a bridge and after a few more minutes' walking you reach the next crossroads, where you go left (straight Podrozca / Rosenbach). From the crossroads you walk along the road for a few more minutes, then leave it higher up on the left-hand bend as the signs for route 675 direct you slightly to the right to cart track. " The road is then signed cart track. We climb cart track, which ends quickly, and we continue our climb through an overgrown meadow. At a higher level we reach another cart track, which leads us through an overgrown part for a short time, then the path enters the forest and continues crosswise to the right. After a short crossing, another cart track is reached, and from this a few steps higher to the right. There is a short crossing and then the path from Podrožce joins.
Continue in the direction of Kahlkogel and the nearby spring, which is reached after about 5 minutes of further walking.
From the spring, where there is a sign and a bench, continue along the path, which initially leads through a small valley, from which the path soon turns sharp left and climbs steeply. There are a few minutes of climbing through the forest before the path quickly widens into a macadam road, which is then followed for a short distance. Leave the road at a higher level, then cross it again a little further on, and stay on it. When the forest thins out a little further on, we get a nice view towards Kahlkogel, and a little further on we cross a pasture fence. After crossing the fence, a few minutes walk along the road and you will reach mountain pasture Kladje.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2017 (June).

On the way: Hladna voda / Kaltwasser (915m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Golica (1 h 35 min)

We recommend: trips from the same starting point, similar trips