parking below Weinebene - Großer Speikkogel (Koralpe) (above Pomswasserfall)

Access to starting point:
A) Over one of the border crossings with Austria (Korensko sedlo, Karawanks Tunnel, mountain pass Ljubelj, mountain pass Jezerski vrh, mountain pass Pavličev vrh) we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving on the so-called southern motorway towards Graz. On the mentioned motorway we drive to the settlement Volšperk / Wolfsberg, where we leave the motorway, and when we get to the old or regional road we continue driving in the direction of the settlement St. Gertraud. In the settlement St. Gertraud we notice signs for the alpine pass Weinebene, which point us to the right on an ascending asphalt road. On the mentioned road, we drive approximately 18 km, and then we get to the mentioned alpine pass, which is situated at an altitude of 1668 m. From the pass, we start descending towards the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg, and just a little after the left hairpin turn we park on a marked parking lot on the right side of the road.
B) Over the border crossing Holmec or Vič we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving towards the settlement Volšperk / Wolfsberg. From Volšperk we continue on a regional road in the direction of the settlement St. Gertraud. In the settlement St. Gertraud we notice signs for the alpine pass Weinebene, which point us to the right on an ascending asphalt road. On the mentioned road, we drive approximately 18 km, and then we get to the mentioned alpine pass, which is situated at an altitude of 1668 m. From the pass, we start descending towards the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg, and just a little after the left hairpin turn we park on a marked parking lot on the right side of the road.
C) First, we drive to Maribor, and then we continue driving on the motorway towards the border crossing Šentilj and ahead on the Austrian motorway towards Graz. We leave the mentioned motorway at the exit for the settlement Lipnica / Leibnitz. When we leave the motorway at the roundabout, we continue in the direction of the settlement 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 store Hofer 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, and after the village Graschach we turn right in the direction of the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. In a roundabout right next to the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg, we continue "straight" in the direction of the alpine pass Weinebene. From here on, the road starts ascending steeper, and we follow it approximately 17 km, and then still before the right hairpin turn on the left side we notice a parking lot, where we park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto a side road in the direction of the mountain hut Grünangerhütte and mountain pasture Bärentalalm, which crosses the slopes below the main road. Asphalt on the side road quickly ends and we arrive at a junction, where we continue on the upper right road (along the slightly left road leads one of the paths to the hut Grünangerhütte). There follows some ascent, and from the right the path from the parking lot Reihkehre - Glashütten joins us, which is located above the hairpin turn mentioned in the access to the starting point. There follows some more traversing, mostly in a gentle ascent, and then the path splits once again. To the left branches off another path to the previously mentioned hut, and we go slightly right and continue along the macadam road, which ascends somewhat more steeply; along it in a few minutes we arrive at the hut Bärentalhütte.
We bypass the hut on the right side, along the road we continue to the nearby junction at the pasture fence, where we go slightly right (straight Grünangerhütte and Steinmandl). A little further we go even somewhat more to the right, then across part of the mountain pasture Bärentalalm we ascend to the edge of the forest, where the path steeply ascends through a belt of forest. After a few minutes the steepness eases, the path turns somewhat to the left and on the saddle between the peaks Hühnerstütze and Moschkogel reaches the road that leads from the pass Weinebene.
On the saddle, where there is a marked junction, we arrive from Austrian Styria / Steiermark to Austrian Carinthia / Kärnten, and we continue straight on the cart track that crosses the slopes to the right (the cart track is unmarked for a short time, as the marked path leads right to the nearby hut Grillitschhütte and from there back to the cart track, the path left along the fence continues towards the summit Großer Speikkogel - panoramic path, sharply right pass Weinebene).
For a few minutes we traverse the slopes below the summit Hühnerstütze (1989 m), then we arrive at the cross Schäferkreuz, where the previously mentioned path past the hut Grillitschhütte joins us. Here we continue straight and in a few minutes arrive at the indistinct saddle between Hühnerstütze (1989 m) on the left and summit Sprungkogel (1868 m) on the right.
On the saddle there is a marked junction, where we continue straight in the direction of the hut Großhöllerhütte (left Gr. Speikkogel), just a little further on a rock we notice signs that the path splits once again. The wide path along the cart track crosses the pasture fence and continues towards the hut Großhöllerhütte, but we continue slightly left in the direction of Pomswasserfall. There follows some traversing descent along a partly pathless but marked path, lower we join the somewhat longer path that leads past the hut. Lower we cross the macadam road twice more, then we cross the stream Rassingbach, which we cross somewhat above the waterfall Pomswasserfall.
On the other side of the stream we join one of the paths from the starting point at the inn Gasthaus Waldrast, but we continue straight in the direction of the plateau Großes Kar and the hut Koralpenhaus. There follows an ascent through a belt of forest, then the path levels out and leads us partly across quite marshy meadows. The path soon becomes steeper again and also increasingly panoramic. Higher the path leads us along a mountain stream, which past the bivouac Hotel Kar brings us to a junction, where we join the path that leads across the eastern part of the plateau.
Here we continue right in the direction of the hut Koralpenhaus and cross the last streamlet, then we start to ascend more steeply along the also steeper slope.
After a few minutes of steep traversing ascent we reach the wide northern ridge of the summit Steinschneider, along which we continue an increasingly panoramic ascent. The path and ridge then turn somewhat to the left, and we quickly reach the 2070 m high summit Steinschneider.
We bypass the structure with transmitters on the left side, then we start descending along the macadam road. We quickly leave the macadam road, along which the marked path continues towards the hut Koralpenhaus, and continue slightly left on an unmarked but well-trodden path that continues along the ridge. A few minutes further we reach the asphalt road that leads from the hut Koralpenhaus, and along it we continue the ascent. We follow the road to the radars on the summit, which we bypass on the right side, then along the path in one minute of further walking we ascend to the cross on the summit.
Starting point - Bärentalhütte 0:35, Bärentalhütte - Steinschneider 2:45, Steinschneider - Großer Speikkogel 0:25.
The description refers to the condition in July 2023, and the pictures are from various periods.

On the way: Bärentalhütte (Golica / Koralpe) (1630m), Steinschneider (2070m)