Oberdrosen - Holzmannkogel

Access to starting point:
Via the border crossing Kuzma, we drive into Austria and continue towards the town Ženavci / Jennersdorf. From the roundabout before the entrance to the expressway, we take the first exit towards the settlement Sveti Martin / Sankt Martin an der Raab; in the middle of the settlement, we turn right to continue on Oberdrosener Landesstraße. On Oberdrosener Landesstraße, we drive to the settlement Oberdrosen, where the bus stop Oberdrosen South marks the start of the described path. At the starting point, there are no arranged parking places.

Route description:
From the starting point, we continue on the road ahead, and it leads by the stream Drosenbach. A few minutes after the settlement ends, we veer slightly left at a smaller crossroad onto a side road, marked with signs for Dreiländerecke. Shortly after the crossroad, the road enters the forest and begins to ascend steeply. Higher up, the road levels out, and we continue straight at the smaller crossroad. There follow a few more minutes of walking to the next crossroad, where at a smaller shelter we leave the road and continue sharply to the left on a cart track, which continues through the forest and in a few minutes brings us to the hunting cottage.
At the hunting cottage, we leave the cart track and bypass the cottage on the right side, then we continue on an indistinct southwestern ridge of the peak Holzmannkogel, where we follow rare blazes, but there is no beaten footpath further. We follow this path to the peak a few minutes away.
Description and pictures refer to the conditions in February and June 2023.

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