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At the highest point of the road from Gaming to Urmannsau (elevation 525 m) there are good opportunities to park cars.
On the south side of the road signposts: to the right path 21, to the Kartäuser cave and the Gföhlsattel; to the left path 21 leads on a long forest road to the Gföhl Alm.

Please note: Image 1 shows how the paths lead uphill here.

We take the unmarked path (dotted yellow in image 1), which leads south (uphill) between the two above-mentioned options.
Exactly at the second hairpin (stone man) begins our trail, which leads uphill, getting steeper on the steep slope of the Schwarzenberg.
Soon the "wood transport chute" becomes visible.
Some steep sections are to be overcome, some sections have safety features (not completely reliable!).
After about 1.6 km the terrain flattens and we arrive in a stream bed.
The path is not easy to find here; at the first good opportunity we climb out of the ditch to the left and go uphill until we reach the meadows of "Hochschlag".
Here a forest road comes in from the left, two go to the right. From the right ones we take the left one, which leads us out to the Gföhler saddle (1.1 km from Hochschlag).
From here there are markings and signposts.
We turn sharply left, at the next forest road intersection left again, and soon leave the forest road to the right and climb along the north side of the Gföhler Almspitze to the open meadows of the Gföhler Alm (1.4 km from the Gföhler saddle).
From here possibly a short detour to the Gföhler Alm.
We continue climbing 1.2 km along the edge of the forest to the summit of Rainstock. Wonderful views.

Descent the same way down to the Gföhler Alm.
Just before the Gföhler Alm there is a first descent option:
Access road to the Gföhler Alm = around the Wieskogel to Filzmoos = 7.5 km.

We took descent 2:
back as in the ascent to the Gföhler saddle.
At the hunting lodge turn left, on the forest road first flat, then down in 7 switchbacks, (passing the access to the Kartäuser cave) down to Filzmoos = 5.6 km from the Gföhler saddle to Filzmoos.

Descent 3 starts at the Gföhler saddle:
Left of descent 2 on marked path down to an Alm, at the next intersection keep right and through the Ebertal valley, at the next intersection keep right again and flat out to Filzmoos = 3.7 km.