Plattner - Gartnerkofel (via Watschiger Alm)

Access to the starting point:
Cross the border crossing at Ratece and go through Trbiž / Tarvisio, Ukve / Ugovizza to Tablja / Pontebba, where you turn right after the signs "Passo di Pramollo / Nassfeld" (Wetlands in Slovenian). At the pass, go past the lake to the Austrian side, where you turn right at the crossroads onto the asphalted road, which leads you to the parking area in front of Plattner's cottage.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road, which after a few metres leads to signposts. We continue along the road towards the Watschiger hut, and to the right is a direct, slightly shorter route to Gartnerkofel. The sloping road then leads to the hut in about 15 minutes' walk. At the hut where the road ends, take the footpath (route 410) after the Gartnerkofel signs. The path then leads us across meadows and brings us back to the crossroads in 15 minutes. Bear right (direction Gartnerkofel) where the path briefly passes through the forest, then turns slightly left and climbs over grassy slopes towards the Kuhweger Torl saddle (1912m). Shortly before the saddle, you reach a crossroads where you bear right onto route 412, marked Gartnerkofel. To the left across the saddle, an unguarded climbing route leads to the summit. Continue over the scree below Gartnerkofel from where you can see the window in Gartnerkofel. Soon the path joins the direct route to Gartnerkofel. At the crossroads turn left and the path starts to climb up the east side of Gartnerkofl and leads to a small saddle in 15 minutes. At the saddle from which you can already see the cross at the top, turn left and climb up the slope partly covered with grass. When the climbing path joins us from the left, we have only a few metres of fairly steep ascent to the top.

On the way: Watschiger Alm (1625m)

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