Göriach - Oberer Landawirsee

Access to starting point:
From highway Beljak/Villach - Salzburg we go to the exit St. Michael (exit is located between the both larger tunnels). We follow the road ahead towards settlements St. Martin, Mariapharr and Göriach. We then follow the ascending road through the mentioned village to the parking lot, which is located few kilometers above the village Göriach, where we park on a large parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road which in 5 minutes of walking, it brings us to a larger meadow in the middle of which we notice a larger number of wooden cottages. One of the cottages is also the mountain hut, which is situated on the right side of the path.
The path ahead gradually starts ascending and over two successive small bridges brings us to the spot, from where a nice view opens up on waterfall. After the waterfall worse road ascends level higher and after a half an hour of walking from the starting point brings us to a hamlet of private cottages. The path which still runs on the road, by numerous streams brings us to a crossing, where the path on Hochgolling branches off to the right. We still continue on the road which turns to the left and after additional 40 minutes of a moderate ascent on the more and more panoramic slope brings us to the mountain hut.
From the mountain hut, we continue slightly left in the direction of the summit Scharnock and the path past a cross in 5 minutes brings us to the bottom (unterer) lake Landawirsee. From the lake path starts ascending a little more and after 15 minutes of a moderate ascent, wich runs by clear mountain stream brings us to the upper lake, which is until late in the summer covered with snow and ice.

On the way: Landawirsee Hütte (1985m), Unterer Landawirsee (2000m)

Trip can be extended to: Scharnock (1 h 25 min)