Heidi Alm - Mallnock (via Klomnock)

Access to the starting point:
a) Drive through the Karavanke Tunnel into Austria, then continue along the Tur Autobahn, leaving at the Beljaška bypass and continuing on to Feldkirchen. Continue along Lake Ossiach / Ossiacher See to the aforementioned town. In Feldkirchen, turn left towards the Turacher Höhe pass and continue past Himmelberg, Gnesau, Mitterdorf to Wiedweg, where the road from Bad Kleinkircheim joins from the left. From this junction we continue towards the Turacher Höhe pass for a few 100 m, and then the signs for mountain pasture Heidialm and the village and lake Falkertsee direct us to the left onto the ascending road. Follow this road to its end, where you park in one of several car parks.
b) From Styria or Carinthia, first drive to Dravograd and then via Border crossing Vič to Austria, following the signs for Klagenfurt / Klagenfurt. Continue on the so-called Southern Motorway, leaving at Klagenfurt (direction Feldkirchen). Continue along the regional road to reach the aforementioned town. In Feldkirchen, turn right towards the Turacher Höhe pass and continue past Himmelberg, Gnesau and Mitterdorf to Wiedweg, where the road from Bad Kleinkircheim joins from the left. From this junction we continue towards the Turacher Höhe pass for a few 100 m, and then the signs for mountain pasture Heidialm and the village and lake Falkertsee direct us to the left onto the ascending road. Follow this road to its end, where you park in one of several car parks.

Path description:
From the parking lot, walk to the end of the road where the Hotel Heidi is located. Near the hotel, you will see yellow mountain signs, which direct you over a grazing fence to a grassy slope, which you can climb in a few steps to a marked crossroads.

A direct path leads up to Falkert on the left, and we continue to the right, following the markings Klomnock, Falkert 1h 15min. The trail then crosses the slopes below the cable car and then crosses the stream in a gentle ascent. The trail then turns slightly left and follows a grassy slope up to the Hundsfeldscharte notch between the Falkert and Falkertköpfl peaks.

Continue straight on at the notch where there is a crossroads. First cross the fence and then cross the slopes below the FalkertXXköpfl peak to the north-west. From the trail you have a nice view of the nearby Falkert, and in the distance you can also see the Julian and Carnic Alps. Once near the saddle between the Falkertköpfl and Steinnock peaks, the trail turns left and crosses the grassy slope below the Steinnock peak to the Flache Scharte saddle where the slopes become more gentle.

At the saddle, continue straight ahead and start climbing again. The path soon leads to a crossroads with signposts. Continue straight ahead following the signs Klomnock, Malnock. The path branches off to the right towards the Prießhutte hut and to the left towards the Falkertschutzhaus hut. After a short climb, cross the fence and the path leads to the crossroads again. We continue right up past the Klomnock markers, and a direct trail to Malnock leads off to the left.

The path then climbs steeply for some time on a grassy slope along the ridge. In the last part, the path from the Schiestelscharte Pass joins us from the right and there is only a short climb to the summit.

From the summit, continue westwards and start descending a fairly steep ridge. The path then leads to a memorial with a cross. The slope becomes more gentle as we continue down the ridge to the saddle below Malnock Peak. At the saddle we continue along the fence and soon reach the summit on a gentle grassy slope.

On the way: Hundsfeldscharte (1872m), Klomnock (2331m)

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