Glashütten - Krakaberg (Golica / Koralpe)

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Maribor, then continue driving on the highway towards the border crossing Šentilj and further on the Austrian highway towards Graz. We leave the mentioned highway at the exit for the settlement Lipnica / Leibnitz. When we exit the highway at the roundabout, we continue in the direction of the settlement Lipnica / Leibnitz, and further we drive south of the village Gralla, which today is already some kind of peripheral part of Lipnica. Further, the road leads us past the industrial or commercial zone, and at the roundabout by the Hofer store we continue "straight" on the second exit in the direction of the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. Further, we drive for some time on the main road, then after the village Graschach we turn right in the direction of the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. In the roundabout right next to the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg, we continue "straight" in the direction of the alpine pass Weinebene. From here, the road starts to ascend more steeply, and we follow it for approximately 15 km, then turn left towards the settlement Glashütten. A short descent follows, and we arrive at the center of the village, where we park in the parking lot by the Church of the Name of Mary.

Path description:
From the starting point, on the road by which we arrived at the starting point, we return to the first bend, then head onto the marked path in the direction of the hut Grünangerhütte and the peak Großer Speikkogel. Already after a few dozen steps of ascent, we reach a macadam road, which we cross and then continue past the beehives. A light descent follows and we return to the macadam road, then for some time continue directly alongside the road, later in a moderate descent gradually moving away from it. Lower, over two successive bridges we cross two streams, then a light traverse ascent follows to a cart track, which we follow briefly to the left, then quickly go right onto the marked path that continues along the fence, the latter above the pasture Mottl.
A bit more light descent follows, lower we also cross the stream Höllgraben, shortly after reaching the stream Schwarze Sulm, where there is a dilapidated and dangerous bridge, so we go right and start ascending along the stream upwards. Higher, we return to the macadam road alongside which we walked at first, and on it, over the bridge, we cross the stream, on the other side of the bridge we go right and continue the ascent on a worse and fairly steep macadam road. Later, on the right side, we bypass a masonry building, shortly after from the increasingly worse road we go left onto the marked footpath, which temporarily ascends more steeply. When a few minutes higher we reach two successive roads, we only cross the first, follow the second to the left and walk along it for some time. We leave the road at the place where the marks lead us slightly right into the forest, where we immediately cross yet another road, the path then slowly turns to the left direction and quickly brings us to the hut Grünangerhütte.
Past the hut we continue right and continue the ascent on the marked footpath. After a few minutes of ascent through sparse forest we arrive at a smaller junction, where we continue straight in the direction of the path over Steinmandl. A little further we cross the pasture fence, behind it we continue a few minutes of ascent through the forest. When we leave the forest we cross the forest road, immediately above the road the path splits.
Before crossing the pasture fence we go right, where the marked path towards the peak Steinmandl continues (straight unmarked path to the nearby Loskogel). Some steep ascent along the edge of the forest follows, then the path levels out and transitions to the indistinct ridge of the peak Steinmandl, where from the right another unmarked path joins us, which leads over the alpine pasture Bärentalalm.
From here a shorter moderate ascent follows and with nice views we reach an interesting peak with towers.
From the peak a slight descent follows, then we gradually start to ascend along the fence, ahead of us we see the peak Hühnerstütze. The path further leads us past the branch-off for Zwergenstein, the path somewhat further turns left and starts crossing the slopes of the peak Hühnerstütze to the left. A longer light ascent follows, and with ever better views we reach the junction on the indistinct saddle between the peaks Seespitz and Hühnerstütze.
Here we continue straight or slightly left in the direction of the peak Großer Speikkogel (sharply right Hühnerstütze, pass Weinebene and also our starting point) and continue lightly ascending, the path brings us to the western slopes of the peak Seespitz.
For a few minutes we cross the somewhat steeper slopes of the mentioned peak, then reach the saddle Seespitzsattel, where from the right the path past the cross Schäferkreuz joins us.
Again we continue in the direction of the highest peak of the range, and we start traversing and ascending the slopes of the peak Kleiner Speikkogel, after a few minutes of traverse ascent we reach the main ridge, which we reach on the saddle between the two highest peaks of Golica.
Here we continue straight downhill in the direction of the pass Koglereck and the town Labot / Lavamünd (left Kleiner Speikkogel, right Großer Speikkogel). A shorter descent follows, then we reach a small valley basin, where the path splits once again. Here we go left (right hut Koralpenhaus), after a few steps then right onto the less trodden unmarked path, which leads to the nearby peak Krakaberg. The path slowly disappears, and we quickly reach the nearby peak, already nicely visible from the ridge.
Starting point - Grünangerhütte 1:40, Grünangerhütte - Steinmandl 0:45, Steinmandl - Krakaberg 1:40.
The description refers to the condition in May 2025, the pictures are from various periods.

On the way: Grünangerhütte (Golica / Koralpe) (1575m), Steinmandl (Golica / Koralpe) (1835m), Seespitzsattel (2040m)