Planina Svinja / Saualpe (2079m)
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| Tadej14. 05. 2008 13:42:00 |
Since I had some time left yesterday after visiting Golica, I decided to also climb to Planina Svinja, whose highest peak is the 2079m high Velika Svinja / Ladinger Spitze.
By car from Wolfsberg via St. Michael to Lading above which there is a marked parking lot. I ascended to the summit via the left path, which led past the Wolfsberger Hütte hut and then along a scenic grassy ridge to the top. This path is completely dry. I descended past the Ladinger Hütte hut and then along the forest road to the car. On this path there are still some patches of snow in the upper part. LP Tadej
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| klavdipo14. 05. 2008 18:45:01 |
I'm interested if in Austria's peaks and huts there are also summit books and stamps like here and how it is with marked paths?? Since I haven't hiked Austrian hills yet, some info would be useful, as I'll slowly head across the border!
Thanks
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| Tadej14. 05. 2008 19:01:11 |
Paths are well marked, the only difference is in the color of the mountain signs. On most summits there are stamps and logbooks.
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| VanSims17. 04. 2010 20:32:50 |
Aha, Tadej, I see you took exactly the same path as me. The path up was well marked, but back to Ladinger Hutte I wouldn't quite say so. If there weren't some locals I might have gone astray.
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| VanSims17. 04. 2010 20:35:13 |
klavdipo, I can only say to you that abroad (speaking more of Italy and France) the attitude in huts and guests' behavior is completely incomparable to Slovenian ones. In a better sense. As for Austria, I think marking is something like ours, Italy (except South Tyrol) somewhat worse, France is rather bad in that regard...
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| Irina6. 11. 2011 14:05:40 |
How beautifully the atmosphere of vast plateaus and endless peace is evoked. Saved the tour to Luna's drawer.
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| VanSims7. 11. 2011 15:01:47 |
Up there it's really wilderness like in some Wild West prairie or the Scottish Highlands. Who would expect that in Austria!
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| felix8. 11. 2011 08:58:40 |
Do you have any times for the ascent?
lp
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| felix8. 11. 2011 10:12:14 |
MajaO, Thank you very much for the information, lp!
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| Janez528. 11. 2011 13:34:57 |
In 2008 I did a loop from Geissel hutte to Ladinger Spitz and back. Altogether moderate hiking with stops for tea, beer a bit over 6 hours. Total about 15 km and 700 m elevation.
Parked a bit higher than Geisselhute. From parking to Offnerhutte approx 1 hour then to Wolfsberger Hutte another 40 min. From there to Ladinger Spitz summit another 1:40 so total 3:20. From summit back via Sandkogl and Ladinger Alma about 3 hours. I'll upload GPS track if helpful.
LP Janez
P.S
A few more pics if it works
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| VanSims8. 11. 2011 13:38:09 |
MajaO: I see you know geology better than I do because you nicely found everything yourself and use terms completely foreign to me. Bojan_A also knows a lot about geology as it's his hobby and he even wrote about gneiss on his blog.
I encountered gneiss myself in the High Tauern on Ankogel and Säuleck. Large stone blocks piled on each other, it's really tricky to walk on because you don't know if one won't shift under your feet and you'll fall.
There are no scree fields in our sense, just 'boulder fields'! It all looks like being on another planet! 
It was similar in Stelvio National Park (South Tyrol) only perhaps there it's some other rock (more brownish) otherwise similar. Those are Rhaetian Alps, if anyone knows what rocks are there.
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| felix29. 11. 2011 07:15:11 |
On Saturday the sun was quite inviting out of the fog. We did a loop: Lading(P) - Wolfsberger huette - Ladinger spitz - Ladinger huette - Lading (P). We spent five hours on the whole path. The path is suitable for those with less fitness, since there is no trace of any steep ascents. It's also a good goal for later years, I took a good look at the terrain.
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| matjaz8421. 07. 2012 00:45:52 |
Yesterday I was on Velika Svinja. Conditions were ideal. Clear sky. Fresh wind. Above Giesslhutte hut there is a large parking lot where I parked, then first along the marked path to Offnerhutte. Then I just went across extensive mountain pastures, between herds of cows and across streams following the highest point on the horizon and stepped onto the summit. I descended first along the marked path, then I followed the starting point which I kept seeing below me. I didn't even get to Wolfsberg hutte, because it seemed off the path to me and I preferred to descend directly pathless to the starting point. In short, a very nice, not too strenuous ascent. And I found some mushrooms along the way
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| vespuci23. 03. 2014 18:14:53 |
22.3 on Svinja. Parking dry. With altitude more and more transformed snow, which also early doesn't hold human weight. For the last 300m elevation gain recommend using snowshoes.
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Saturday, 20.4.2019
Sandkogel and Ladinger Spitz
On the ridge there is still quite some snow, which is melting fast and if not much falls these days, the range will soon be dry. Me and princess went first to Sandkogel, from there to Ladinger Spitz and descended from it past Wolfsberger huette. The whole dear day we didn't meet anyone, only two grouse crossed our path right below Sandkogel.
Attention! Wolves roam on Svinja, so caution is not superfluous. Warning signs about them are also along the paths leading to huts and peaks.
https://tubojan.blogspot.com/2019/04/sandkogel-in-ladinger-spitz-svinska.html
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| Borut113. 02. 2020 20:54:09 |
On Saturday 8.2. from Klippitztorl pass towards Forstalpe summit. Part of the path without snow, partly windblown and towards the summit icy. In the forest (we returned via loop path) up to 40 cm snow and trodden.
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| Janezs26. 10. 2020 19:07:51 |
Today with Romana we wanted to hike this range, but we only made it to the first summit and a few meters further, wind and fog wanted their toll. We turned back and along the lower path, in the shelter of trees back to the ridge, even now we didn't reach the summit, wind and fog turned us back.
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| pclop28. 02. 2022 19:25:31 |
To Ladinger Spitz from the west side is a really nice walk. To Steinerhütte even in winter is mostly reachable by car, then along the path to the ridge a bit over 2000 m and along the ridge to the summit. Even in snow very easy but scenic winter walk.
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