Parkirišče pod prelazom Weinebene - Steinschneider (via Großes Kar)

Access to starting point:
A) Over one of the border crossings with Austria (Korensko sedlo, Karawanks Tunnel, mountain pass Ljubelj, mountain pass Jezerski vrh, mountain pass Pavličev vrh) we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving on the so-called southern motorway towards Graz / Graz. On the mentioned motorway we drive to the settlement Volšperk / Wolfsberg, where we leave the motorway, and when we get to the old or regional road we continue driving in the direction of the settlement St. Gertraud. In the settlement St. Gertraud we notice signs for the alpine pass Weinebene, which point us to the right on an ascending asphalt road. On the mentioned road, we drive approximately 18 km, and then we get to the mentioned alpine pass, which is situated at an altitude of 1668 m. From the pass, we start descending towards the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg, and only a little after the left hairpin turn we park on a marked parking lot on the right side of the road.
B) Over the border crossing Holmec or Vič we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving towards the settlement Volšperk / Wolfsberg. From Volšperk we continue on a regional road in the direction of the settlement St. Gertraud. In the settlement St. Gertraud we notice signs for the alpine pass Weinebene, which point us to the right on an ascending asphalt road. On the mentioned road, we drive approximately 18 km, and then we get to the mentioned alpine pass, which is situated at an altitude of 1668 m. From the pass, we start descending towards the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg, and only a little after the left hairpin turn we park on a marked parking lot on the right side of the road.
C) First, we drive to Maribor, and then we continue driving on the motorway towards the border crossing Šentilj and ahead on Austrian motorway towards Graz / Graz. We leave the mentioned motorway at the exit for the settlement Lipnica / Leibnitz. When we drive off the motorway into the roundabout, we continue in the direction of the settlement Lipnica / Leibnitz and further we drive south from the village Gralla, which is today already some kind of peripheral part of Lipnica. Further, the road leads us past the industrial or commercial zone, and at the roundabout by the store Hofer we continue "straight" on the second exit in the direction of the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. Further, we for some time drive on the main road, and after the village Graschach we turn right in the direction of the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg. In a roundabout right next to the settlement Lonč / Deutschlandsberg, we continue "straight" in the direction of the alpine pass Weinebene. From here on, the road starts ascending steeper, and we follow it approximately 17 km, and then still before the right hairpin turn, on the left side we notice a parking lot, where we park.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we head onto a side road in the direction of the mountain hut Grünangerhütte and mountain pasture Bärentalalm, which crosses slopes below the main road. Asphalt on the side road quickly ends and we arrive at a junction, where we continue on the upper right road (a slightly left road leads one of the paths to the mountain hut Grünangerhütte). There follows some ascent, and from the right the path from the parking lot Reihkehre - Glashütten also joins us, which is located above the hairpin turn mentioned in the access to the starting point. There follows some more crossing, mostly in a gentle ascent, and then the path splits once again. To the left branches off another path to the previously mentioned mountain hut, and we go slightly right and continue on the macadam road, which ascends somewhat more steeply, and on it in a few minutes we arrive at the mountain hut Bärentalhütte.
We bypass the mountain hut on the right side, and on the road we continue to the nearby junction at the pasture fence, where we go slightly right (straight Grünangerhütte and Steinmandl). A little further, we go even somewhat more to the right, then across part of the mountain pasture Bärentalalm we ascend to the edge of the forest, where the path steeply ascends through a belt of forest. After a few minutes the steepness eases, the path turns somewhat to the left and on the saddle between the peaks Hühnerstütze and Moschkogel reaches the road that leads from the pass Weinebene.
On the saddle, where there is a marked junction, we arrive from Austrian Styria / Steiermark to Austrian Carinthia / Kärnten, and we continue straight on the cart track, which crosses slopes to the right (the cart track is unmarked for a short time, as the marked path leads right to the nearby mountain hut Grillitschhütte and from there back to the cart track, the path left along the fence continues towards the summit Großer Speikkogel - panoramic path, sharply right pass Weinebene).
For a few minutes we cross slopes below the summit Hühnerstütze (1989 m), then we arrive at the cross Schäferkreuz, where the previously mentioned path past the mountain hut Grillitschhütte joins us. Here we continue straight and in a few minutes arrive at the indistinct saddle between Hühnerstütze (1989 m) on the left and summit Sprungkogel (1868 m) on the right.
On the saddle there is a marked junction, where we continue slightly left in the direction of the summit Großer Speikkogel (straight mountain hut Großhöllerhütte). We continue on a wide cart track, which further crosses a few streams. The gentle cart track, which initially even descends slightly, somewhat higher changes into a gentle footpath, which continues across panoramic and gentle meadows. Somewhat further, on the plateau Großes Kar, we arrive at a marked junction, where we go right in the direction of the mountain hut Koralpenhaus (straight leads the path towards the summit Gr. Speikkogel).
Further, we cross the pasture plateau Großes Kar in the direction towards the west and for some time continue without major changes in elevation. As we gradually begin to ascend moderately, from the right the path past the Poms waterfall and the path past the mountain hut Großhöllerhütte join us.
Here we continue straight in the direction of the mountain hut Koralpenhaus and cross the last stream, then we begin to ascend more steeply on the also steeper slope.
After a few minutes of steep traversing ascent we reach the wide northern ridge of the summit Steinschneider, along which we continue an increasingly panoramic ascent. The path and ridge then turn somewhat to the left, and we quickly reach the 2070 m high summit Steinschneider.
Starting point - Bärentalhütte 0:35, Bärentalhütte - Steinschneider 2:40.
Description refers to the condition in October 2022 and July 2023, pictures are from various periods.

Along the route: Bärentalhütte (Golica / Koralpe) (1630m)

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