Schneeberg expedition: lower (SG I+) and upper Bockgrube

From the parking lot, a clearly visible path leads into the Stadelwandgraben and soon steeply uphill through the forest. To the left, access paths branch off repeatedly to various climbing routes, but you stay on the main path directly in the ravine, which eventually crosses steeply to the right into the forest and reaches a forest saddle north of the Hochgang in several switchbacks. Where the path slopes gently downhill again, you leave it to the right and ascend without a path through the forest along the left side of a water channel for about 50 meters in altitude until you meet a crossing trail, which you follow to the left to reach the rocky valley floor. You are now in the lower Bockgrube. While you would reach the "Brettschachersteig" straight ahead on the path, you turn left in the wide scree channel and ascend steeply without a path, keeping more in the middle. Soon you reach a rocky narrow section that you must climb up (SG I+). Next follows a flat gully section, initially densely overgrown, then opening into a cirque with rock boundaries on the left side. You laboriously ascend steeply over scree here to just below a craggy rock gully at the upper end of the cirque. You can climb up through this gully (SG II), but the rock is crumbly and rather unpleasant. It is easier to traverse right just below the gully, past the crags, then steeply ascend left to the base of the cliff and follow chamois tracks along it to the left, traversing back to a narrow gully. Here you ascend diagonally to the right and then further to the left into a scree cirque with large boulders. In the cirque, you almost ascend to the valley head and traverse just before it on a ramp to the left onto a rock rib, descend a few meters behind it and continue traversing left further into the next gully, which brings you back into the Bockgrube. From here, continue ascending through a dense stand of young spruces up to the next cirque level, where you sharply turn left before the first crags and cross out into the dense forest, there ascend steeply right into another cirque level and then over open terrain to the left to the base of the cliff to ascend diagonally right up to a notch and thus reach and cross the marked southern Grafensteig.

Above the Grafensteig, you ascend again on a craggy ridge left of dense tree stands to the base of the cliff, where you meet a distinct chamois track that leads uphill to the right and then traverses into the cirque. At a small notch at the lowest point of the gully begins a larch passage, which leads left to the edge of a scree slope. There you ascend the left edge of the larches to their upper end and then go slightly downhill to the right back into the cirque, ascend steeply left through a larch passage over crags and then back right into the cirque, which is open above here. You follow this gully, ascend high on the left edge of a larch field to the meadow slope and then continue ascending up to the ridge of the Bockgrubenriegel, where you reach the transmission facility at the summit of Klosterwappen to the left.

The path to the Fischerhütte is wide, marked, and not to be missed.

For the descent from Klosterwappen, take the path marked with poles and old green markings over the Stadelwandleiten west of the Königsschusswand until you reach the junction with the southern Grafensteig along with several signposts. From here, continue straight downhill on an unmarked path that leads in tight switchbacks to a clearing with a forester’s house of the City of Vienna. Below the forester’s house to the left begins a clearly visible path that descends in switchbacks back to the forest saddle at the Hochgang, where you rejoin the ascent route and follow it back to the starting point.