Reißkofelbad - Reißkofel Biwak

Access to starting point:
From Beljak / Villach we drive towards Hermagor and forward towards Lienz, but only to the village Reisach. In the mentioned village, we turn right and the ascending road we follow to boarding house Reißkofel near of which we park.

Path description:
By the road near the cottage we will notice signposts, which point us to the left on a footpath (signs Reißkofel Biwak). After few meters of walking, we come to a crossing where we go left (signs Schmalzgruben Welzberg). After a short descent, we are again at the crossing, this time we go right following the signs Ochsenschlucht Alm (path 233). The path then starts ascending through the forest and it brings us to a meadow. The path runs on the right side of a meadow and then past few houses brings us to signposts (we follow the signs for Reißkofelbiwak). We again ascend through a meadow, this time on the left side. At the end of the meadow then the path turns right in the forest and is at first ascending on a worse cart track which quickly passes into a footpath. The path is then for quite some time steeply ascending through the forest and few times crosses a mountain road. In the last part of the path towards the bivouac we come out of the forest on grassy slopes, where nice views open up on neighbouring Torkofel and on Carnic Alps.

Trip can be extended to: Reißkofel (2 h 15 min)