Glashütten - Steinmandl (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 drive off the highway into the roundabout, we continue in the direction of the settlement Lipnica / Leibnitz, and further we drive south of the village Gralla, which is today already some kind of peripheral part of Lipnica. Further, the road leads us past an 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. At the roundabout directly 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 on the parking lot by the Church of the Name of Mary.

Path description:
From the starting point, along 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 summit Großer Speikkogel. Already after a few dozen steps of ascent, we reach a macadam road, which we cross, then continue past the apiary. Next follows a gentle descent and we return to the macadam road, then for some time continue directly along the road, later in a moderate descent gradually distance ourselves from it. Lower, over two successive small bridges we cross two streams, then follows a gentle traverse ascent to a cart track, which we follow briefly to the left, then quickly go right onto the marked path, which continues along a fence, the latter above the pasture Mottl.
Next follows some more gentle descent, lower we also cross the stream Höllgraben, shortly after we reach the stream Schwarze Sulm, where there is a dilapidated and dangerous bridge, so we go right and begin to ascend along the stream upstream. Higher we return to the macadam road along which we walked initially, we cross the stream over the bridge along it, on the other side of the bridge we go right and continue the ascent on a worse and fairly steep macadam road. Later we bypass a masonry building on the right side, shortly after from the ever-worsening 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 markers lead us slightly right into the forest, where we immediately cross yet another road, the path then slowly turns leftward 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 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 forks.
Before crossing the pasture fence we go right, where the marked path to the summit Steinmandl continues (straight unmarked path to the nearby Loskogel). Follows some steep ascent along the edge of the forest, then the path levels out and transitions to the indistinct ridge of the summit Steinmandl, where from the right another unmarked path joins us, which leads across the alpine pasture Bärentalalm.
From here follows yet a short moderate ascent and amid fine vistas we reach the interesting summit with stone men.
Starting point - Grünangerhütte 1:40, Grünangerhütte - Steinmandl 0:45.
Description refers to the condition in May 2025, pictures are from various periods.

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