Tonnerhütte - Fuchskogel (Seetal Alps)

Access to the starting point:
a) Drive through Border crossing Ljubelj into Austria and follow the signs for Klagenfurt am Wörthersee / Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In Klagenfurt, turn right at the McDonalds onto the southern bypass / Südring, and at the next major junction turn right again towards Velikowiec / Völkermarkt and Mostič / Brückl. The road to Velikowiec is soon left, as a little after the Obi shop you turn right towards the motorway and Mostič. Continue past the Ikea store, following the signs for Mostič and past the motorway entrances. When you arrive in Mostič, follow the signs for Lead / Eberstein and Hüttenberg and then Mühlen, which is already in Styria / Steiermark. Mühlen is reached by turning right off the main road, and through the village we follow the signs for Jakobsberg and Tonnerhütte, and higher up just follow the signs for Tonnerhütte, where we park in a pay-and-display parking lot (€4 private car, June 2020).

b) Take the Border crossing Jezerski Vrh, Holmec or Vič into Austria, then follow the signs for Velikovec / Völkermarkt, and from there the signs for Mostič / Brückl. Once in Mostič, follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg and then Mühlen, which is already in Styria / Steiermark. Mühlen is reached by turning right off the main road, and through the village we follow the signs for Jakobsberg and Tonnerhütte, and higher up just follow the signs for Tonnerhütte, where we park in a pay-and-display parking lot (€4 private car, June 2020).

Path description:
From the parking lot, walk above the hut, where the path splits and we take the Panoramaweg (Panorama Trail) on the right (Zirbenweg on the left). At first, we walk along the road, which climbs crosswise to the right, but just after the left-hand bend, we leave the road and continue to the right in the direction of the Zirbitzkogel (Zirbitzkogel). The path continues along the edge of the ski slope, and when the ski slope ends, the path is laid. Follow the marked path through the lane of a forest to open pastures, where you will quickly reach the Herterhöhe lookout point, where there are panoramic billboards.

We continue straight on towards Zirbitzkogel, where, as the views get better and better, we reach the next marked crossroads, where a path branches off to the left towards the peaks of Kreiskogel (2306 m) and Wenzelalpe (2151 m) and the Winterleitenhütte hut (1782 m), and we continue straight on. There is a fairly steady climb, which gives us nice views, but before crossing the first stream, the winter path to Zirbitzkogel branches off to the left (the branch is not marked and is harder to see), and we continue across the stream and start climbing cross-climbing to the right. We cross several more streams, and we follow the south-western slopes of Zirbitzkogel up to the south ridge, where there is a marked crossroads.

Continue right towards Fuchskogl (left Zirbitzkogel, straight over the fence and then left Lake Lavantsee), where the route continues along the lookout ridge, descending gently. After about 15 minutes of easy descending, you arrive near Fuchskogl, where in a few 10 steps you climb easily up a small pass, where to the left and right of the marked path there are two peaks of about the same height, the left one, which is only a little higher, is the summit of Fuchskogl, which you climb after a minute of further walking.
Starting point - Herterhöhe 0:40, Herterhöhe - Fuchskogel 1:40.

On the way: Herterhöhe (1800m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Zirbitzkogel Hütte (Seetaler Alpe), Zirbitzkogel (Seetaler Alpe)

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