Iličev rovt / Illitsch Rauth - Koča Berta / Bertahütte (by road)

Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we drive on a highway towards towards Beljak, which we leave at the first exit Kot / Winkl. When we reach the main road through Rož / Rosental, we continue right in the direction of the lake Baško jezero / Faaker See. On the main road we drive for few kilometers, and then at the beginning of the settlement Spodnje Dobje / Unteraichwald, we continue quite sharply left on the local road, by which there are signs (signs are from the opposite direction and are harder to notice from our side) for Kepa / Mittagskogel, Koča Berta / Bertahütte and Kopanje / Kopein (we leave the main road about 200 meters before Hotel Mittagskogel). Further, we at first still drive on an asphalt road which at the crossroads we follow in the direction of hut Koča Berta. Higher the macadam road becomes quite bad, and we are driving there to the marked parking lot in Iličev rovt / Illitsch Rauth. If the road is too bad, we can park already lower, on an appropriate place by the road.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue to the gate, and behind it, the path splits. We continue on the road in the direction of hut Koča Berta (left footpath), which is ascending in zig-zags, and occasionally from there a view opens up a little towards the lake Baško jezero / Faaker See and Kepa. Higher, we reach the saddle Borovščica / Ferlacher Sattel, where at the crossing we continue left (straight Podrožca / Rosenbach, right Kepa), and at the next crossing we go once again slightly left in the direction of Koča Berta. Follows only few 10 strides of a light ascent and we get to the mountain hut, which is situated below the summit of Kamnica / Ferlacher Spitze.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (August).

On the way: Sedlo Borovščica / Ferlacher Sattel (1500m)

Trip can be extended to: Kamnica (Komnica) / Ferlacher Spitze ( 35 min) , Mittagskogel/Kepa (2 h)