Parkirišče pod prelazom Weinebene - Kleiner Speikkogel (Golica / Koralpe) (panoramic path)

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 / Graz. On the mentioned motorway we drive to the settlement Wolfsberg / Volšperk, 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 Deutschlandsberg / Lonč, 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 Wolfsberg / Volšperk. From Wolfsberg 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 Deutschlandsberg / Lonč, 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 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 settlement Deutschlandsberg / Lonč. Further, we for some time drive on the main road, and after the village Graschach we turn right in the direction of the settlement Deutschlandsberg / Lonč. In a roundabout right next to the settlement Deutschlandsberg / Lonč, 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.

Route 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 (on the slightly left road leads one of the paths to the mountain hut Grünangerhütte). There follows some ascent, and from the right there also joins the path from the parking lot Reihkehre - Glashütten, 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 on the macadam road, which ascends somewhat more steeply, and along it in a few minutes we arrive at the mountain hut Bärentalhütte.
We bypass the hut on the right side, and on the road we continue to the nearby junction at the pasture fence, where we go slightly right (straight Grünangerhütte and Steinmandl). A little further on, we go even more to the right, and then across part of the mountain pasture Bärentalalm we ascend to the edge of the forest, where the path steeply ascends through a strip of forest. After a few minutes, the steepness eases, and the path turns slightly to the left and on the saddle between the peaks Hühnerstütze and Moschkogel reaches the road that leads from the pass Weinebene.
On the mentioned saddle there is also a marked junction, and we continue left in the direction of the peak Großer Speikkogel (straight Grilitschhütte, Großhöllerhütte and Koralpenhaus, right pass Weinebene). The path ahead is gently ascending for a short time, then steeply on the northern slopes of the peak Hühnerstütze. Higher up, with ever better views, we reach the ridge of the mentioned peak, and then we continue walking on the gentle and wide summit ridge. On such a path, from which beautiful views open up, we then quickly reach Hühnerstütze.
From the summit there follows an easy descent along the wide and panoramic ridge, and somewhat lower from the left there joins the path past the mountain hut Grünangerhütte, or the settlement Glashütten. In the continuation, we gradually start to ascend gently, and the path brings us to the western slopes of the peak Seespitz.
For a few minutes we traverse the somewhat steeper slopes of the mentioned peak, and then we reach the saddle Seespitzsattel, where from the right there also joins the path past the cross Schäferkreuz.
We again continue in the direction of the highest peak of the range, and we start to ascend transversely on the slopes of the peak Kleiner Speikkogel, and after a few minutes of transverse ascent we reach the main ridge, which we reach on the saddle between the two highest peaks of Golica.
Here we continue left on an unmarked path that leads towards the peak Kleiner Speikkogel (right Großer Speikkogel 4 minutes). There follows a short ascent and we reach the forepeak, from which a nice view opens up on the nearby peak, to which we have a few minutes of gentle ascent with nice views.
Starting point - Bärentalhütte 0:35, Bärentalhütte - Hühnerstütze 1:25, Hühnerstütze - Kleiner Speikkogel 1:05.
The description and photos refer to the situation in October 2022.

Along the route: Bärentalhütte (Golica / Koralpe) (1630m), Hühnerstütze (Golica/Koralpe) (1989m), Seespitzsattel (2040m)

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