Winterleiten parking - Scharfes Eck

Access to starting point:
A) From the Gorenjska side, we go over the border crossing Ljubelj to Celovec / Klagenfurt or through the Karavanke tunnel to Beljak / Villach. Ahead, we head onto the highway in the direction of the signs for Gradec / Graz. We leave the highway before the approximately 2 km long tunnel in the direction of Bad St. Leonhard. Further, we drive past the village St. Peter and the smaller town Obdach. Through Obdach, we continue driving to Judenburg. All the time, we follow the signs for Judenburg until we get to the center of Judenburg. In the roundabout, where there is a gas station in the middle, we turn left in the direction of Seetaler Alpe. We follow the road for 17 km and the signs for Winterleiten Hütte and park on the large parking lot before the road closure.
B) From Koroška, we first drive to Dravograd and further into Austria. We follow the road ahead towards St. Paul, St. Andrä and Wolfsberg. In Wolfsberg, we head towards Bad St. Leonhard and further towards St. Peter. Further, we follow the description from Gorenjska.
C) From the Štajerska side, we drive to Maribor and further over the border crossing Šentilj into Austria. We follow the highway in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt. We leave the highway at the exit for Bad St. Leonhard. Further, we follow the description from Gorenjska.
D) Access from Austria: First, we drive to Judenburg, which is situated by the river Mur in Austria. Further, we drive to the south part of the town, where we notice a hospital. Near the hospital, a mountain road branches off towards Seetaler Alpe. The road is marked with signs "Seetaler strasse". We follow the nice and initially asphalted road towards the signs for Winterleiten Hütte. We park on the large parking lot before the road closure.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road which is closed with a barrier. After a short ascent on the road, we come out of the forest, where in front of us we notice a lake and to the right of it a hut.
Ahead, we continue on the left side of the lake past the chapel in the direction of "Lukas Max - steig". We follow the path, which ascends only gently, ahead on the slightly vegetated slope. The path then moderately ascends for a short time and brings us to the upper Winterleiten lake.
Next follows the crossing of a wide stream, then the path turns left by the lake. This part of the path is quite swampy, so we must be careful not to get wet.
The path ahead again starts to ascend slightly and brings us to a junction, where we again continue in the direction of "Lukas Max - steig". Next follows the crossing of a few smaller streams on a quite muddy footpath. The path ahead slowly turns to the left and continues through nice high-mountain terrain full of streams. The path then slowly transitions to more rocky terrain, where we leave the nice little valley and springs. The path ahead ascends more steeply through the rocky terrain and after 20 minutes of ascent brings us to a panoramic saddle.
We continue right along the ridge upwards. The path along the somewhat steeper ridge lasts only a few minutes, then it turns left and in a gentle ascent crosses the slopes of Scharfes Eck. At the end of the crossing, the path brings us to a junction, where we continue sharply right (straight to Zirbitzkogel). The path ahead ascends somewhat more steeply and after a few minutes of ascent on panoramic slopes brings us to the summit.

Along the route: Winterleiten Hutte (Seetaler Alps) (1782m), Gr. Winterleiten See (Seetaler Alps) (1840m)

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