Winterleiten parking - Zirbitzkogel (Seetal Alps)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the Gorenjska side, go via the Ljubelj border crossing to Klagenfurt or via Karawanks to Villach. Continue on the motorway in the direction of the signs for Graz / Graz. Leave the motorway after about 2 km through a tunnel in the direction of Bad St. Leonhard. Continue past the village of St. Peter and the small town of Obdach. We continue through Obdach to Judenburg. Follow the signs for Judenburg until you reach the centre of Judenburg. At the roundabout with a petrol station in the middle turn left towards Seetaler Alpe. Follow the road for 17 km and the signs for Winterleiten Hütte and park in the large parking lot before the road closure.
b) From Carinthia, first drive to Dravograd and then on to Austria. Follow the road to St. Paul, St. Andra and Wolfsberg. In Wolfsberg, head towards Bad St. Leonhard and on to St. Peter. Continue following the description from Gorenjska.
c) From the Styrian side, take the Maribor and continue to Austria via the Šentilj border crossing. Follow the motorway in the direction of Klagenfurt / Klagenfurt. Leave the motorway in the direction of the Bad St. Leonhard exit. Follow the description from Gorenjska.
d) Access from Austria. Continue to the southern part of the town, where you will see a hospital. Near the hospital, the mountain road to the Seetaler Alps branches off. The road is marked with signs "Seetaler strasse". Follow the beautiful and initially asphalted road towards the Winterleiten Hütte. Park in the large parking lot before the road closure.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road, which is closed with a barrier. After a short climb along the road, you come out of the forest, where you see a lake in front of you and a hut to the right of it.
Continue along the left side of the lake past the chapel in the route "Lukas Max - steig". Follow the path, which ascends only gently, on a slightly vegetated slope. The path then climbs moderately for a short distance and leads to the upper and larger Winterleiten Lake.
After crossing a broad stream, the path turns left along the lake. This part of the trail is quite boggy, so take care not to get wet.
The trail continues to climb slightly and leads to a crossroads, where you continue again in the direction of "Lukas Max - steig". Then cross a few small streams on a rather muddy path. The trail then slowly turns to the left and continues through a beautiful high mountain world full of streams. The trail then slowly changes to a more rocky world, leaving a beautiful valley and small wells. The path climbs steeply up the rocky area and after 20 minutes of climbing leads us to a little lookout.
Continue right up the ridge. The path takes only a few minutes on a slightly steeper ridge before turning left and crossing the slopes of the Scharfes Eck in a gentle ascent. At the end of the traverse, the path leads to a crossroads where you continue straight ahead (slightly left) in the direction of Zirbitzkogel (Scharfes Eck on the right). A few minutes' walk along a flat, wide ridge follows. The path continues on to the summit slopes of Zirbitzkogel and starts to climb moderately. After a short climb, you reach the hut, which is located just a few metres below the summit.
Continue to the right and within two minutes of ascending past the chapel, you will reach the summit with a view.

On the way: Winterleiten Hutte (Seetaler Alps) (1782m), Gr. Winterleiten See (Seetaler Alps) (1840m), Zirbitzkogel Hutte (Seetaler Alps) (2376m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Scharfes Eck (Seetaler Alpe)

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