Bad Gleichenberg (Eichgraben Weg) - Bschaidkogel (via Mühlsteinbruch)
Starting point: Bad Gleichenberg (Eichgraben Weg) (328 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.88265°N 15.92017°E
Path name: via Mühlsteinbruch
Time of walking: 50 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 235 m
Altitude difference (by path): 245 m
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Access to starting point:
We drive into Gornja Radgona, from where we drive into Austria. Through Radgona / Bad Radkersburg we follow the signs for highway, and after the settlement Halbenrain we turn right in the direction of the town Vrbna / Feldbach. When we get to the settlement Bad Gleichenberg after the car wash Eurowash, we turn right on the road Badstraße, and then we drive also on Ringstraße, Bernreither Straße, Steinriegelstraße and here we turn left on Eichgraben Weg. On the mentioned path we drive for few 100 meters and then we park on a parking lot by the edge of the forest.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on a marked footpath which ascends through the forest, and at the very beginning on the left side we bypass a smaller recreation park. Next follows an ascent through the forest, where the path leads us past numerous learning boards, and at the crossings we follow the blazes of the path number 13.
Higher, the path splits, and we choose the right path, by which there are signs for Gleichenberg Dorf (straight - Alte Wasserstelle), and there we are still ascending through the forest. A little further, the path once again splits, and this time we continue left in the direction of Mühlsteinbruch and Enzianhütte.
Follows only a shorter ascent and past a lookout tower we get to the cross on Mühlsteinbruch, mountain hut Enzianhütte is situated a little further.
Behind the mountain hut Enzianhütte we return on the path number 13 and we follow it to the left, and a little higher we reach the forest road which we only cross (left - Gleichenberg Dorf and Gleichenberger Kogel, right - Pichla).
Next follows a light to moderate ascent on an unmarked path which leads us on an indistinct forested ridge. Higher at a smaller crossing, we go right and in few 10 strides we ascend on an indistinct peak.
The starting point - Mühlsteinbruch 0:35, Mühlsteinbruch - peak 0:15.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in December 2022 and January 2023.
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