Originally we wanted to spend a couple of days camping with friends, but unfortunatelly they called off and the weather was also poor.
Therefore we did only a day hiking, but proper one. Our goal for Saturday 12th of September was Zirbitzkogel 2396m, the highest peak of the Seetal Alps and the entire Lavanttal Alps. We edited the standard bergfex tour a bit, made it longer, to stay in the nature the whole day.
Our tour started at the parking by Waldheimhutte above the Obdacher Höhe at about 10:30. From there we headed to Rotheidenhütte across a fairy tale pine trees forest, full of fresh mushrooms. We sat down for a first break few hundred meters away from the cottage on the typical alpine meadows covered by heaths. Then we continued towards north west and soon started the steepest part towards Zirbitzkogel. It cost us a lot of energy which we refilled in Helmut Erd – Schutzhaus.
The next part leaded us on the ringe of the mountain to Fuchskogel 2196m. We were then further descending around the Wildsee in the direction back to Waldheimhutte.
When we reached the parking place at about 19:15 our car was there already alone.
The whole track was then 19km and took us 7h,45m during which we gained 1100 elevation meters.