Tonnerhütte - Herterhöhe

Access to starting point:
A) Over the border crossing Ljubelj we drive to Austria and follow the signs for Celovec / Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In Celovec at McDonalds we go right on the south bypass road / Südring, and at the next larger junction we go once again right in the direction towards Velikovec / Völkermarkt and Mostič / Brückl. The road towards Velikovec we soon leave because a little after the Obi store we turn right in the direction of the highway and Mostič. Further, we go past the Ikea store, where we follow the signs for Mostič and past the on-ramps to the highway. When we get to Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg and then Mühlen, which is already located in Styria / Steiermark. We reach Mühlen by turning right off the main road, and through the settlement we follow the signs for Jakobsberg and mountain hut Tonnerhütte, higher only the signs for mountain hut Tonnerhütte, where we park on a paid parking lot (4 € personal car, June 2020).
B) Over the border crossing Jezerski Vrh, Holmec or Vič we drive to Austria, and then we follow the signs for Velikovec / Völkermarkt, and from there we follow the signs for Mostič / Brückl. When we get to Mostič we follow the signs for Svinec / Eberstein and Hüttenberg and then Mühlen, which is already located in Styria / Steiermark. We reach Mühlen by turning right off the main road, and through the settlement we follow the signs for Jakobsberg and mountain hut Tonnerhütte, higher only the signs for mountain hut Tonnerhütte, where we park on a paid parking lot (4 € personal car, June 2020).

Route description:
From the parking lot, we walk above the mountain hut, where the path splits, and we choose the right panorama path / Panoramaweg (left Zirbenweg). We at first walk on the road which ascends diagonally towards the right, and only a little after the left turn we leave it and continue right in the direction of Zirbitzkogel. The path ahead leads us by the edge of the ski slope route, and when the ski slope ends, the path flattens for some time. We follow the marked path, which through a strip of forest brings us onto expansive pastures, where we quickly reach the viewpoint Herterhöhe, where panorama panels are situated.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in June 2020.

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Herterhöhe ( 10 min), Fuchskogel (Seetal Alps) (1 h 40 min), Scharfes Eck (Seetal Alps), Zirbitzkogel Hütte (Seetal Alps), Zirbitzkogel (Seetal Alps)

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