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Mountain ranges / High Tauern / Petzeck / Seichenbrunn - Petzeck

Seichenbrunn - Petzeck

Starting point: Seichenbrunn (1668 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.91536°N 12.77544°E 
Destination: Petzeck (3283 m)
Time of walking: 5 h 30 min
Difficulty: difficult marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 1615 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1700 m
Map:
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Trip rating: 4 votes
Number of pictures: 75
Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving towards Spittal and then towards Lienz (the highway ends a little after Spittal). Further, we drive on a relatively nice and wide road through the Drau Valley. A little before Lienz at the roundabout, we continue right towards the places Iselsberg and Winklern. The road starts ascending, and then we have to pay attention because the road soon branches off to the left towards the Debanttal valley (green sign). The road towards the Debanttal valley becomes macadam, and later it joins a somewhat nicer road from the place Nußdorf-Debant. When driving through the Debanttal valley, we then follow the signs for the huts Lienzer Hütte and Wangenitzseehütte. We follow the road all the way to the gate where we park on a large parking lot (Parkplatz Seichenbrunn).
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on a macadam road which is closed to traffic. Already after a few dozen meters, we come to a marked junction where we continue right over a bridge following the signs »Wangenitzseehütte«. Straight on the macadam road leads the path towards the hut Linzer Hütte.
Our path then turns right and climbs up a grassy slope, bringing us into the forest. For some time we then walk on a wide path which runs towards the east, and then signposts direct us left and the path starts to ascend more steeply. The path here runs mostly across grassy slopes beside increasingly sparse forest. Higher up we then cross a fence and the path brings us to a mountain pasture where livestock grazes in the summer months.
The path here becomes gentler and crosses grassy slopes below the cargo cableway towards the northwest. From the path we have here a nice view mainly on the mountains above the Debanttal valley. The path from the pasture then turns slightly right and starts ascending more steeply again, bringing us to a marked junction.
Left leads the path to the hut Linzer Hütte, while we continue right to the hut Wangenitzseehütte. From the junction the path then crosses somewhat steeper slopes below the summit Feldkopf towards the east, followed by another somewhat steeper ascent to the notch Untere Seescharte.
On the notch, where a view opens towards the east, the path descends slightly and takes us past the high-alpine lakes Kreuzsee and Wangenitzsee to the hut Wangenitzseehütte.
At the hut we continue towards the northeast following the signs »Petzeck«. After a short ascent we come to a marked junction where left branches the path to the summit Kruckelkopf.
We continue straight and then cross somewhat steeper slopes. On this section caution is required during the traverse, aided by a steel cable. Further on the path turns left and then ascends towards the north for quite some time. Higher up the path turns right onto somewhat steeper slopes; straight through the valley leads an unmarked path over the notch Petzeckscharte. The unmarked path is less steep overall, but snowfields can still be present even in late summer. The marked path then ascends steeply and from the path we have increasingly beautiful views of the surrounding peaks; along the path we will also notice a smaller waterfall. Higher up, where the path over the notch Petzeckscharte joins, the path turns right and ascends a rocky slope to the elevation 3136 meters from which a view opens towards the summit Petzeck. Here the path becomes gentler and leads us across snowfields towards the north. In the final section the path becomes somewhat steeper again and leads to the last ascent to the panoramic summit.
On the way: Untere Seescharte (2533m), Kreuzsee (2483m), Wangenitzsee (2465m), Wangenitzseehütte (2508m)
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