parking below Weinebene - Grünangerhütte (Golica / Koralpe)

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 south motorway towards Graz / 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 only 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 only 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 further on the Austrian motorway towards Graz / 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 of 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 settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. Further, we drive on the main road for some time, then after the village Graschach we turn right in the direction of the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. In the roundabout in the immediate vicinity of the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg, we continue "straight" in the direction of the alpine pass Weinebene. From here on, the road starts ascending more steeply, and we follow it approximately 17 km, then just 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 Grünangerhütte hut and Bärentalalm mountain pasture, which crosses the slopes below the main road. The asphalt on the side road ends quickly and we arrive at a junction, where we continue on the upper right road (one of the paths to the Grünangerhütte hut leads on the slightly left road). There follows some ascent, and from the right the path from the Reihkehre - Glashütten parking lot also joins us, which is located above the hairpin turn mentioned in the access to the starting point. There follows some more traversing, mostly in gentle ascent, then the path splits again.
This time we continue slightly left in the direction of the Grünangerhütte hut (straight Bärentalalm) and continue on a cart track which crosses slopes towards the left. Soon over a bridge we cross the nearby stream, then for a few minutes we continue through the forest. Later we reach the turning point of the forest road, along which we continue the path, on the road we descend for a few minutes. Lower, the markers from the road direct us right onto a cart track, on which we ascend through the forest, which turns into a footpath, on which we quickly arrive at the Grünangerhütte hut.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in October 2022.