Heidi Alm - Falkert (via Falkertscharte)

Access to starting point:
A) Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving on the Tauern motorway, which we leave already on the Villach bypass and continue driving towards the settlement Trg / Feldkirchen. Further, we drive along Osojsko jezero / Ossiacher See to the already mentioned settlement. In Trg / Feldkirchen we continue left in the direction of the mountain pass Turacher Höhe and drive ahead past settlements Himmelberg, Gnesau, Mitterdorf to the settlement Wiedweg, where from the left the road from Bad Kleinkirchheim also joins. From the mentioned junction, we continue towards the mountain pass Turacher Höhe only a few hundred meters, then signs for the mountain pasture Heidialm and village and lake Falkertsee direct us left onto an ascending road. We follow the mentioned road to its end, where we park on one of the many parking lots.
B) From Štajerska or Koroška, we first drive to Dravograd and then through the border crossing Vič into Austria, where we then follow signs for Celovec / Klagenfurt. Further, we drive on the so-called South motorway, which we leave at Celovec (direction Trg / Feldkirchen). Further, we drive on a regional road, by which we arrive at the already mentioned settlement. In Trg / Feldkirchen we continue right in the direction of the mountain pass Turacher Höhe and drive ahead past settlements Himmelberg, Gnesau, Mitterdorf to the settlement Wiedweg, where from the left the road from Bad Kleinkirchheim also joins. From the mentioned junction, we continue towards the mountain pass Turacher Höhe only a few hundred meters, then signs for the mountain pasture Heidialm and village and lake Falkertsee direct us left onto an ascending road. We follow the mentioned road to its end, where we park on one of the many parking lots.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we head in the direction of the Heidi-Alm park, to which we have 130 m. After 130 m, a path branches off to the left to the mentioned park (entrance fee required to view the park), but we continue straight ahead and further on the road, which quickly brings us to the high mountain lake Falkertsee.
From the lake, which we bypass on the left side, the path begins to ascend moderately and continues along an increasingly poor road. Somewhat higher, we arrive at a marked junction, where we continue right towards the saddle Falkertscharte (left ridge path to Rodresnock). We continue the ascent for some time on the poor road, then arrive at a small wooden hut, where it turns into a pleasant path. We continue along the high mountain valley, which on the left is surrounded by the steep slopes of Rodresnock, on the right by the south face of the peak Falkert, where a climbing path soon branches off.
We continue straight on the occasionally somewhat steeper path, along which with fine views we quickly arrive at the aforementioned saddle.
At the saddle, where there is a marked junction, we continue right (left Rodresnock 20 minutes) and after a few dozen steps of further walking we arrive at the next junction. Here too we continue right (left St. Oswald) and continue along the gentle ridge, which turns semicircularly to the right. After a few minutes of easy walking, the path brings us below the summit head of the peak Falkert, where it skirts the pasture fence and begins to ascend steeply towards the summit, which we reach after 5 minutes of further walking.

Along the route: Falkertsee (1872m), Falkertscharte (2195m)

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