St. Corona am Wechsel - Umschussriegel

Access to starting point:
Exit the A2 motorway Graz - Vienna / Wien at the Aspang Markt exit and follow the road to the aforementioned place. Upon arriving in the town, follow the signs to the Mariensee settlement, and at the end of the town, go straight towards St. Corona am Wechsel. We then begin a steeper ascent, but we follow the road to the center of the settlement St. Corona am Wechsel, where we park in one of the parking lots.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we walk to the church of St. Corona, then turn left onto a side road where there are signs for Hochwechsel, Kampsteiner Schwaig, Herrgottschnitzerhütte and many other signs. Initially, we ascend past a few houses, at a small cross we turn right and continue following the signs for Hochwechsel. The path then crosses the ski slope and summer toboggan run, after which it splits.
Slightly to the left from the road, a path branches off leading past the Orthof inn, but we follow the path signs along the forest road and continue walking along the road, from which a path to the Odenhof guesthouse soon branches off to the right.
We continue along the forest road, which ascends moderately; higher up, at a few junctions, we follow the signs for Kampsteiner Schwaig.
Higher up, we leave the road for a cart track, where the path leads past the "starting stone" Antrittsstein (St. Wolfgangs Fußabdruck), after which we soon leave the forest. From here, there is still some ascent through the forest, then the forest ends and across the meadow section we quickly reach the Kampsteiner Schwaig hut.
We bypass the hut on the left side and follow the signs for Hochwechsel; the path ahead first gently ascends across the meadow surrounded by sparse forest. When the path returns to the forest, we bypass the Frauenalpe summit on the right side and begin descending towards the west. Lower down, the path stops descending, and when we start ascending again, we reach a junction at the Schwarzer Herrgot cross, from where we continue left towards Feistritzer Schwaig (straight to Arabichl).
This is followed by about 15 minutes of gentle ascent to the left, and the cart track brings us to the Feistritzer Schwaig alpine pasture.
We bypass the buildings on the right side and continue walking along the gentle cart track, from which another path to the Arabichl summit soon branches off to the right; we continue straight and enter the forest. A few minutes further, after a short easy descent, we reach a gravel road, along which we begin to ascend, with the path leading along the upper edge of the forest. We follow the path that traverses the slopes to the left in a gentle ascent to the junction at the Dreiländereck saddle, from where we head left towards the Hochwechsel summit and the Mönichkirchen settlement (here a path joins from the right that leads over the Arabichl summit and is somewhat longer than ours, as well as a path starting from the Feistritzsattel pass), and we begin a traverse ascent; such a path brings us after a few minutes to an unmarked junction, where we continue along the slightly right unmarked path (slightly left leads the marked path to Hochwechsel), which continues through a belt of young spruce forest. A little further, from the grassy path we go traverse to the right, so that we continue walking again among the spruces, and the forest begins to thin. The followable but unmarked path then brings us in a few minutes of further walking to an indistinct summit where a larger cairn stands.
This is followed by some easy walking, initially without major changes in elevation, then we moderately descend through sparse spruce forest. When we leave the forest, a path joins us from the left that bypasses the Schöberlriegel summit on the left side, and we then ascend on the increasingly panoramic grassy slope to the expansive summit of Umschussriegel.
Starting point - Kampsteiner Schwaig 1:45, Kampsteiner Schwaig - Schwarzer Herrgot 0:45, Schwarzer Herrgot - Feistritzer Schwaig 0:15, Feistritzer Schwaig - Schöberlriegel 1:05, Schöberlriegel - Umschussriegel 0:20.
Description and photos refer to the condition in September 2023 and November 2025.

On the way: Kampsteiner Schwaig (1400m), Schwarzer Herrgot (1403m), Feistritzer Schwaig (1438m), Dreiländereck (1561m), Schöberlriegel (1704m)