Klippitztörl - Geierkogel (Saualpe)

Access to starting point:
A) Via the Ljubelj border crossing we drive to Austria and follow the signs for Celovec / Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In Celovec at McDonald's we go right onto the south bypass / Südring, at the next larger intersection we go right once again in the direction towards Velikovec / Völkermarkt and Mostič / Brückl. We soon leave the road towards Velikovec because a little after the Obi store we turn right in the direction of the highway and Mostič. Further on, we go past the Ikea store, where we follow the signs for Mostič and past the highway on-ramps. When we arrive in Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely past the settlement Mösel, we turn right towards the Klippitztörl pass and the Lölling settlement. Further on, we begin to ascend more visibly along the valley of the Löllingbach stream, higher up, past the Lölling settlement, we gradually move away from the stream as well. We follow this road all the way to the Klippitztörl pass, where we turn right and park on the larger asphalt parking lot.
B) Via the Jezerski Vrh, Holmec or Vič border crossings we drive to Austria, then we follow the signs for Velikovec / Völkermarkt, from there the signs for Mostič / Brückl. When we arrive in Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg. Still before Hüttenberg, more precisely past the settlement Mösel, we turn right towards the Klippitztörl pass and the Lölling settlement. Further on, we begin to ascend more visibly along the valley of the Löllingbach stream, higher up, past the Lölling settlement, we gradually move away from the stream as well. We follow this road all the way to the Klippitztörl pass, where we turn right and park on the larger asphalt parking lot.

Route description:
At the beginning of the parking lot, signs for Geierkogel, Wolfsbergerhütte, Forstalpe and other destinations point us onto a path which continues above the parking lot and leads us towards the south. Initially we walk on a wide mountain path (not road), which ascends only gently, after crossing a macadam road the path gradually becomes slightly steeper and brings us to a marked junction.
We continue left in the direction of the Geierkogel peak (the right path bypasses the mentioned peak) and ascend through an increasingly sparse forest. A little further we once again cross the forest road, then the path becomes steep and ascends among blueberries, and with every step better views accompany us. Higher the path brings us to a wire fence, but we arrive at the cross on Geierkogel to the right of it. From the cross on Geierkogel we continue towards the south and initially ascend a little more, quickly arriving at the highest point, where on the right on interesting granite rocks we notice a logbook box with a stamp.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in August 2020.

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Forstalpe (Saualpe) (1 h 10 min), Gertrusk (Saualpe) (2 h 35 min), Kienberg (Saualpe) (1 h 50 min), Ladinger Spitze (Saualpe) (3 h 10 min)

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