Lading - Speikkogel (Saualpe)
Starting point: Lading (1350 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.8399°N 14.7111°E 
Time of walking: 2 h 25 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: easily
Altitude difference: 551 m
Altitude difference (by path): 600 m
Map: WK 237 Saualpe-Lavanttal-Koralpe 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From Dravograd over the border crossing Vič we drive to St. Andre. We follow the road ahead to town Wolfsberg, where signs for St. Michael point us to the left. From the village St. Michael we follow the road in the direction of village Lading. An ascending road higher brings us on a poorly marked crossroad, where we continue left. The relatively steep road then through the village Lading brings us to a larger parking lot, which is situated a little above the village.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on a cart track in the direction of Wolfsberger Hütte. Already after few steps we leave the cart track and we continue the ascent on a pleasant forest path, which higher crosses a forest road and then also a wide cart track. Further, we are gently ascending through the spruce forest, and during the walk we cross a grazing fence and bypass a hunting observatory. A well-marked path, eventually brings us on a macadam road which we follow to the right. The increasingly panoramic path leads us through grassy slopes towards the cottage, which we see on the top of the hill. After 20 minutes of walking on the road we get to the parking lot (to here we can get with a car), where we notice an information board on which it is clearly drawn the course of the path.
We continue on the road which quickly brings us to an unmarked crossing, where we continue straight (slightly left). The road which is getting worse and gradually steeper with increasingly beautiful views brings us to the mountain hut Wolfsberger Hütte.
From the mountain hut, we continue slightly left in the direction towards Speikkogel. We continue the ascent on a grassy slope towards the cross, which we see on the top of an indistinct hill. And only few meters before the cross our path turns left and starts slightly descending on a wide grassy slope. The path which in fog represents quite a big problem soon brings us to a wire fence, where there is a crossing. We continue left and in a gentle ascent by the fence we ascend on an indistinct Speikkogel.
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