Salzstiegelhaus - Rappoldkogel
Starting point: Salzstiegelhaus (1543 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 47.06818°N 14.87182°E 
Time of walking: 1 h 20 min
Difficulty: partly demanding marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 385 m
Altitude difference (by path): 400 m
Map: WK 132 Gleinalpe-Leoben-Voitsberg 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We leave the Highway A2 Klagenfurt - Graz at the Packsattel exit, then follow the signs for Graz and Pack. At the settlement Stampf we leave the old road towards Graz and continue driving in the direction of the settlement Hirschegg, from there we follow the signs for the ski slope Salzstiegel and the mountain hut Salzstiegelhaus. In the last part, we follow the macadam road to the parking lot at the mountain hut Salzstiegelhaus, which is situated by the mountain pass Hirscheggersattel.
b) We leave the Highway A2 Graz - Klagenfurt at the Modriach exit, then follow the signs for the Packer Stausee lake and the settlement Hirschegg. From the settlement Hirschegg we follow the signs for the ski slope Salzstiegel and the mountain hut Salzstiegelhaus. In the last part, we follow the macadam road to the parking lot at the mountain hut Salzstiegelhaus, which is situated by the mountain pass Hirscheggersattel.
Path description:
Signposts at the mountain hut Salzstiegelhaus direct us over the road pass to the eastern side, where we follow the signs for Rappoldkogel, Altes Almhaus, and Gaberl. We initially walk on a fairly gentle poorer macadam road, which after a few minutes of walking leads us to a junction at the crossing of a pasture fence.
Here we continue slightly left on a footpath leading toward the summit of Rappoldkogel (slightly right on a grassy cart track to the mountain hut Altes Almhaus), which guides us for a few minutes along the upper edge of a pasture before entering the forest, where it crosses the end of a forest road. Just a bit further, the path splits: slightly left onto a path over rocks requiring a steady step, slightly right onto a regular path through the forest, which on a short section especially when wet is also dangerous for slipping.
After a few minutes, both paths merge, and the forest along the fairly steep path begins to thin out so that we continue the ascent amid increasingly beautiful views. The path further leads us past several granite towers and we arrive at Rappoldkogel, where a cross is located and from which a view opens up in all directions.
The description and pictures refer to the condition in October 2024.
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