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To the “Hirschnlackn” – about the winter markings

Characteristics

Skill

Fitness

The tour in numbers

Level of difficulty easy

Route 4,5 km

Time 1:16 h

Uphill 404 hm

Downhill 404 hm

Highest point 2007 m

This is a ski tour with a wonderful view towards the Zirbitzkogel.

The Zirbitzkogel offers a wonderful view of the Hohe Tauern, the entire Niedere Tauern, the Eisenerzer Alps, the Seckau Alps, the Hochschwab, the Stubalpe, the Koralpe, the Saualpe, the Steiner Alps, the Julian Alps in Slovenia and the Zirbitzkogel Nature Park -Borders.

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More information

From Vienna on the A2 southern motorway to the Seebenstein junction, the Semmering expressway S6 to St, Michael i. Upper Styria, via the Murtal expressway S36 to Judenburg, the federal highway B96 to Scheifling, on the B317 to St. Marein b. Neumarkt, continue on the B92 to Mühlen.

From Linz on the Phyrn motorway A9 to St, Michael i. Upper Styria, via the Murtal expressway S36 to Judenburg, the federal highway B96 to Scheifling, on the B317 to St. Marein b. Neumarkt, continue on the B92 to Mühlen.

From Graz on the A2 southern motorway over the Packsattel to the Twimberg/Bad St. Leonhard exit, the B78 federal road to Wiesenau, on the Klippitztörlstraße to Hüttenberg, on the B92 further to Mühlen.

From Italy/Slovenia or from Klagenfurt on the Wörthersee motorway A2 to Klagenfurt, the federal highway B317 to St. Marein b. Neumarkt, continue on the B92 to Mühlen.

From the Tonnerhütte you can take the drag lift to the high halt, from there you climb gently uphill to the “Herter Höhe” viewing platform (1800m). At the signpost next to the large stone, the two ascent options separate (SW gully or winter marking).

Follow the winter markings (wooden poles) towards the north. After a few hundred meters through sparse trees (pines, larches, spruces), into the tree-free area. Continue across the now steeper alpine pastures to “Hirschnlackn”. (double marking rods)

Descent and ascent.

Variant: You climb the ridge of the slope at the same height to the right towards the east and after approx. 200 m you come to the Sommerweg or the lower part of the “Südwestrinnen-Abfahrt” and drive - or go back to the Herterhöhe and from there over the ski slope , or via the panoramic path back to the Tonnerhütte.

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Public parking spaces are available directly at the Tonnerhütte (note: chargeable!).

The ideal time for this tour is December to March. Information brochures are available at the various information offices.