Weinebene - Kleiner Speikkogel (Golica / Koralpe) (panoramic path)

Access to the starting point:
a) Take one of the border crossings with Austria (Korensko sedlo, Karawanks tunnel, Ljubelj Pass, Jezerski vrh Pass, Pavličev vrh Pass) into Austria and then continue along the so-called southern motorway towards Graz/Graz. Take the motorway to Wolfsberg, where you leave the motorway and then, when you reach the old or regional road, continue driving towards St. Gertraud. In St. Gertraud, you will see signs for the Weinebene Alpine Pass, which will direct you to the right onto an ascending asphalt road. Follow this road for approximately 18 km before reaching the Alpine pass, which is situated at an altitude of 1668 m. Park in the large marked parking lot next to the pass.
b) Drive through the Holmec or Vič border crossing into Austria and then continue to Wolfsberg. From Wolfsberg, follow the regional road towards St. Gertraud. In St. Gertraud, you will see signs for the Weinebene Alpine Pass, which will direct you to the right onto an ascending asphalt road. Follow this road for approximately 18 km before reaching the Alpine pass, which is situated at an altitude of 1668 m. Park in the large marked parking lot next to the pass.
c) First drive to Maribor, then continue along the motorway to Border crossing Šentilj and then along the Austrian motorway to Graz/Graz. Leave the motorway at the exit for Lipnica / Leibnitz. After leaving the motorway at the roundabout, continue in the direction of Lipnitz / Leibnitz and continue south of the village of Gralla, which is now a suburb of Lipnitz. The road continues past an industrial or commercial zone, and at the roundabout by the Hofer store we continue "straight on" to the second exit in the direction of Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. Continue along the main road for a while and then turn right after the village of Graschach in the direction of Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. At the roundabout near Lonč/Deutschlandsberg, continue "straight ahead" towards the Weinebene Alpine Pass. From here on, the road climbs steeply, and we follow it for about 20 km to the aforementioned pass, where we park in a parking lot.

Path description:
From the Weinebene Pass, continue south-west, where, at the Weinebenehaus hut (the Göslerhütte hut is a little further on), the mountain signposts for Gr. Speikkogel (Gr. Speikkogel is the highest peak of the Golice / Koralpe), Jauksattel / Kleinalp, Grillitschhütte, Großhöllerhütte and Koralpenhaus direct you to a winding dirt road that climbs over a gentle grassy slope. The marked path that continues along the road soon crosses a grazing fence, which after a few minutes leads to a small pass, from which we have a beautiful view of the highest peak of Golica and the peaks north to north-east of the summit. When the road starts to descend, a parallel marked mountain path branches off slightly to the right and continues across the vast pastures. When the path stops descending, it ascends gently and returns to the road, which has been closed to public traffic from the outset. The road then climbs gently to moderately on the south-eastern slopes of the Brandhöhe (1886 m (the Brandhöhe is the peak located above the lifts of the Weinebene ski resort)) and, a little further on, the Moschkogel (1916 m). Once on the slopes of the latter peak, the road descends steeply towards the saddle to the south of the summit.
At the saddle, where there is a marked crossroads, we arrive from the Austrian Styria / Steiermark to the Austrian Carinthia / Kärnten, and we continue straight on in the direction of the Gr. Speikkogel (here we join the path on the left, which starts a little lower than the pass) and continue along the right western side of the pasture fence (slightly right Gr. Speikkogel - path past the Schäferkreuz cross and hut Großhöllerhütte, right hut Grillitschhütte).
At the signpost indicating that you have entered Carinthia, leave the road and continue along the pasture fence, initially only gently uphill. The steeper and steeper path continues to lead us along the right side of the grazing fence and, after about half an hour of further walking, leads us to the summit of Hühnerstütze (1989 m) on a steep and steep slope. Here the path turns slightly to the right and continues to climb steeply along the edge of an indistinct ridge. A few minutes higher, the summit is reached and a fine view opens up.
From the undistinguished summit, continue along a gently sloping ridge, which takes a few minutes to reach an angle of 2005 metres. From this angle, there is a descent of a few minutes and the path leads to a marked crossroads, where the path from the Grünangerhütte hut joins us from the left. Continue straight ahead on the path, which first lays down and then begins to climb gently. A little higher up, you reach the slopes of the Seespitz peak, where the marked trail crosses over to the western slopes of the aforementioned peak. After a few minutes of traversing, the path leads to a small saddle between the Seespitz and Großer Speikkogel peaks, where there is a marked crossroads.
Continue straight ahead (here the path joins from the right past the Schäferkreuz cross) and start climbing slightly steeper towards the highest ridge of Golica. Higher up, the path is laid and leads us down the slope to the summit ridge, where we continue left on an unmarked path leading to the Kleiner Speikkogel summit (right Großer Speikkogel 4 minutes). A short climb follows and we reach the summit, from which we have a beautiful view of the nearby summit, which we have a few more minutes of ascending with beautiful views.
Weinebene - Hühnerstütze 2:00, Hühnerstütze - Kleiner Speikkogel 1:05.

On the way: Hühnerstütze (Golica/Koralpe) (1989m)

We recommend: trips from the same starting point, similar trips