Sadnighaus - Sadnig (direct way (path 150))

Access to the starting point:
After crossing the border through the Karavanke Tunnel, take the motorway past Belzec/Villach and Spittal, where you turn off the motorway towards Knoten Spittal Millstätter See, Felbertauern, Lienz, Lendorf. Then turn right at the sign for Großglockner (here you stop following the road to Lienz). Follow the road through Möllbrücke and Obervellach until it turns towards Mörtschach, which is where you turn after a while. From here on, follow the signs for Asten. The asphalted road, which is steep in places, leads for 10 to 11 km to the parking area of the Sadnig (German: Sadnighaus ) hut, where the asphalt ends. Parking is available here. The drive from the national border to the finish line takes just under 2 hours.

Path description:
From the car, follow the asphalt road a few steps down to the Naturlehrweg Astern Moos, Schobertörl and Makernispitze signposts, which direct you to a footpath that loses about 20 metres of elevation to reach a lower-lying dirt road. Follow the dirt road for a short distance until the sign for Sadnig, 3h, marked 150, directs you to a bridge over a small stream called Astenbach. On the other side of the bank, signs direct you to the right and then through the woods. The occasionally steeper path takes you into an increasingly sparse larch forest, from where you can enjoy ever more beautiful views of the Asten valley. We continue to cross a torrential stream and finally reach the Kapitzenbühel crossroads (2282 m). We have walked 1 hour and 15 minutes to get here.
We head towards Sadnig and after 45 minutes we reach the Sadnigscharte pass (2484 m), after a steeper path through high mountain meadows. A little below the pass, there is a small lake along the way, which is a good resting point.
From the pass, after a few serpentines, you reach a scree slope, which you cross and then climb steeply up to the Vorsadnig (2696 m), which the trail passes just below the summit on the eastern side. From here the summit is close. On the last slope, a few metres below the summit, when the path is at its steepest, the path splits into two branches, one of which offers slightly easier access to the summit.

On the way: Sadnighaus (1880m), Naturlehrweg Astern Moos (1860m), Astenbach (1855m), Kapitzenbühel (2282m), Sadnigscharte (2484m)

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