Glashütten - Loskogel (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 town Lipnica / Leibnitz. When we exit the highway at the roundabout, we continue in the direction of the town Lipnica / Leibnitz, and further we drive south from the village Gralla, which is today 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 town 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 town Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. In the roundabout right next to the town Lonč / Deutschlandsberg, we continue "straight" in the direction of the alpine pass Weinebene. From here, the road starts ascending 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 a marked path in the direction of the hut Grünangerhütte and the summit Großer Speikkogel. Already after a few dozen steps of ascent, we reach a macadam road, which we cross and then continue past a beehive. Next follows a light descent 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 small bridges we cross two streams, then follows a light transverse ascent to a cart track, which we follow briefly to the left, then quickly go right onto a marked path that continues along a fence, the latter above the pasture Mottl.
Next follows some more light descent, 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 begin to ascend along the stream upwards. Higher we return to the macadam road alongside which we walked at first, and along it over a bridge we cross the stream, on the other side of the bridge we go right and continue the ascent on a poorer and fairly steep macadam road. Later, on the right side we bypass a masonry structure, shortly after from the ever poorer road we go left onto a marked footpath, which temporarily ascends more steeply. When a few minutes higher we reach two successive roads, the first we only cross, the second we follow to the left and walk along it for some time. We leave the road at the place where the markers 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 small junction, where we continue straight in the direction of the path over Steinmandl. A little further we cross a pasture fence, behind it we continue a few minutes of ascent through the forest. When we leave the forest we cross a forest road, immediately above the road the path forks.
Before crossing the pasture fence, to the right continues a marked path towards the summit Steinmandl, we continue straight across the pasture fence and continue the ascent on an unmarked path, which continues on an increasingly panoramic grassy slope. When a few minutes higher we reach the saddle that connects Loskogel with Steinmandl we continue slightly left, then along a less pronounced track we quickly ascend to Loskogel, where a metal cross stands.
Glashütten - Grünangerhütte 1:40, Grünangerhütte - Loskogel 0:35.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in October 2022 and May 2025.

On the way: Grünangerhütte (Golica / Koralpe) (1575m)