Long-Distance Hiking From the Glacier to the Wine - South Route - Touren-Impression #1 | © Steiermark Tourismus / Harry Schiffer Long-Distance Hiking From the Glacier to the Wine - South Route - Touren-Impression #1 | © Steiermark Tourismus / Harry Schiffer

From the Glacier to the Wine - South Route

The southern route of the long-distance hiking trail "From the Glacier to the Wine" leads from the Dachstein over the Schladminger Tauern, the mountaineering village of Krakow, the historic town of Murau, the Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen Nature Park, the Pack and Koralm and the Schilcherland to the natural park Southern Styria with its end point in Leibnitz. This tour from the alpine north to the charming natural park Southern Styria is a journey of discovery of a special kind.

This tour with 25 daily stages is neither about top athletic performance nor about getting from A to B as quickly as possible. The focus is on the scenic, cultural and culinary specialities along the way, which are presented to the hiker from unusual perspectives, partly by local guides. If you don't want to do it all at once, you can get on or off the trail at almost every stage.

The route is therefore more than just a long-distance hiking trail. Along the way, numerous guides such as natural park guides or winegrowers offer guests the opportunity to gain insights into everyday life or to take look behind the scenes. The impressive landscapes of Styria, such as the impressive Schladminger Tauern with the Klafferkessel, a tundra-like landscape in the heart of Europe, will take your breath away. You get to know the country and its people through encounters - the guides are to be understood in this sense. Cabin owners, restaurateurs and winegrowers, natural park mediators and monastery patrons invite you to get involved in the details along the way.

Characteristics

Skill
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Best season

January
February
March
November
December

The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
370,1 km
Route
15:00 h
Time
16562 hm
Uphill
19277 hm
Downhill
2684 m
Highest point

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The southern route leads in 25 daily stages from the Dachstein Glacier over the Schladminger Tauern, the Murtal holiday region, the Graz region and into Southern Styria.

The route first crosses the Schladminger Tauern mountains, where the term "level" is a foreign word until you reach the mountaineering village of Krakow, because it is either steeply uphill or steeply downhill. And in between: the most beautiful and highest peaks of the Schladminger Tauern.

Murau is one of the highlights of the southern route. After eleven days, you can experience another cultural highlight: the Benedictine Abbey of St. Lambrecht in the natural park Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen is home to almost a thousand years of Styrian history, which we can relive with the help of an art history and folklore collection. 

Before we reach the idyllic village of Obdach in Zirbenland and the Koralm, a long ridge between the two provinces of Styria and Carinthia, you first have to climb the 2,396-metre-high Zirbitzkogel in the Seetal Alps. After the Packsattel and the Koralm, you finally dive into the wine country. Or rather, into Schilcherland, whose "capital" is Deutschlandsberg. Via Eibiswald, the route then follows the border to Slovenia, past vineyards and wine taverns.

Good to know: The southern route as well as the northern route can also be hiked in sections, because thanks to public transportation, there are also so-called hiking and valley buses as well as hiking taxis - it is possible to return to the starting point from almost every final destination.

Je nach Jahreszeit können unterschiedliche Teilabschnitte erwandert werden - im Frühling ist der Süden schon schneefrei und ladet alle Wanderfreunde schon zu den ersten Touren im Jahr ein.

Schon ein paar Tage früher anreisen und mindestens 2 Nächte in einem Betrieb in der Region Schladming- Dachstein übernachten, der auch Sommercard-Betrieb ist. Durch die Übernachtungen und gleichzeitig Einstimmung auf die Wandertour erhält man die Sommercard mit der alle Wanderbusse und die Auffahrt mit der Dachstein-Gletscherbahn kostenlos in Anspruch genommenw erden können.

Accessible by train and bus.

Detailed information about arriving by ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) can be found at www.oebb.at or on the Verbundlinie Steiermark website www.busbahnbim.at

With Verbundlinie’s BusBahnBim route planner app, planning your journey has never been easier: simply enter towns and/or addresses, stop names or points of interest to check all bus, train and tram connections in Austria. The app is available free of charge for smartphones – on Google Play and in the App Store

In Ramsau am Dachstein stehen beim Veranstaltungszentrum zahlreiche Parkplätze zur Verfügung. Mit dem Wanderbus geht es hinauf zur Talstation der Dachstein-Gletscherseilbahn, die uns zum Startpunkt der Tour bringt.

Steiermark Tourismus

Tel. +43 316 4003

info@steiermark.com

www.steiermark.com/en

If you would like to hire a  tour operator, simply book with Steiermark Touristik, the official travel agency of Steiermark Tourismus:

Tel. +43 316 4003 450, 

www.steiermark-touristik.com

The Steiermark Touren app, available free of charge on Google Play and the App Store  (Android, iOS), offers detailed first-hand information: brief facts (length, duration, difficulty, ascent and descent/elevation gain, ratings), map, route descriptions, altimeter, compass, peak finder, navigation along the tour. You can also create your own personal lists of favourite tours and sites, store tours and destinations offline, use social media channels, and much more.

Gratis Pocket Card Wanderroute "Vom Gletscher zum Wein" finden Sie auf www.steiermark.com

Rother Wanderführer "Vom Gletscher zum Wein": auf 160 Seiten mit 80 Farbabbildungen 60 Höhenprofile, 60 Wanderkärtchen im Maßstab 1:75.000, zwei Übersichtskarten, GPS-Tracks zum Download, Format 11,5 x 16,5 cm, kartoniert mit Polytex-Laminierung, ISBN 978-3-7633-4550-2, www.rother.de

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What the weather will be like

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