Klösterle - Neugarten Almseehütte

Access to starting point:
a) Via the Ljubelj border crossing we drive to Austria, then we follow the road towards Celovec / Klagenfurt. In Celovec at all crossroads we continue straight; when the main road turns sharply to the right, a little further on we leave it and continue left towards the settlements Dhovše pri Celovcu / Lendorf and Trg na Koroškem / Feldkirchen in Kärnten. When we arrive at the highway junction we go left towards the settlement Trg na Koroškem; when we arrive at the mentioned settlement we go right from the traffic-light intersection towards the alpine pass Turracher Höhe. After the settlement Himmelberg we go left towards Osojščice / Gerlitzen and begin to ascend noticeably. When the road stops ascending we follow it to parking lot 6a.

From the Ljubelj border crossing to the starting point it is approximately 73 km.

b) Through the Karawanks Tunnel we drive to Austria, then we drive along the motorway to the motorway junction, from which we continue towards Špital ob Dravi / Spittal an der Drau and continue driving on motorway A10. We quickly leave motorway A10 and drive to the exit for Osojsko jezero / Ossiacher See; at the nearby roundabout we choose the third exit (if there were no roundabout we would go left) and continue driving on Millstätter Strasse. Along the mentioned road we drive to an intersection, where we turn right towards the settlement Arriach and the Osojščica / Gerlitzen ski area, so we continue driving on Teuchen Landesstraße. Along the mentioned road we drive to parking lot 6a.

From the Karawanks border crossing to the starting point it is approximately 47 km.

Path description:
From the parking lot over a wooden bridge we cross the Arriachbach stream, then we walk to the lower station of the Klösterlebahn I cableway, which we bypass on the right side. Behind the chairlift station we continue right, so we proceed to the edge of the forest. When we step into the forest we notice the first marking, the path splits a few steps ahead.

The marked path continues straight and leads to Wurzelpark, we go left, where after a few steps we notice a trodden path, which after a short ascent turns right and ascends transversely above the archery area. After approximately 5 minutes of walking on the unmarked path we return to the marked path, which we reach on the section where it runs on a macadam road (the path past Wurzelpark is approximately 15 minutes longer).

We follow the road to the left, along it we quickly arrive at the edge of the ski slope, from where a beautiful view opens up, the path turns right and continues along the road. Higher we make some hairpin turns, then we return to the ski slope, along which we ascend for some time, then the path enters the forest again, where we continue on a worse road. After crossing the pasture fence the path for a longer time passes onto the ski slope and also becomes steeper, as it ascends straight upwards on the ski slope. When we approach the upper station of the Klösterlebahn I cableway we go right into the forest again. In the forest the road turns sharply left and brings us to the station of the mentioned cableway, where some 10 steps before it we continue right upwards. We quickly reach the next road and continue along it amid ever finer views reaching as far as Austria's highest peak. Some junctions follow, where we follow the markings, then past the reservoir lake, from which a nice view of Wintertalernock opens up, we arrive at a junction near the Huaba Hittn hut.

Here we go right (left to Huaba Hittn hut 1 minute) and on the road we begin to descend gently to the nearby stream. After the stream the road turns right and brings us in a gentle ascent to a junction, where we go slightly left, then we quickly arrive at the Neugarten Almseehütte hut.
Klösterle - Huaba Hittn 1:40, Huaba Hittn - Neugarten Almseehütte 0:10.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2019 (August).

On the way: Huaba Hittn (1605m)

Trip can be extended to: Stifterboden ( 30 min) , Gerlitzen (1 h 10 min)