Vöttleck

At the beginning of the Knappengraben, follow the signpost "Vöttleck" and cross the Triebenbach. Along the marking, you reach the Wessenkar hut via an old cart track with short forest road sections. The marked path passes about 50 m from the hut and then ascends in wide switchbacks through steep forest onto a ridge that extends southward from Vöttleck and over which you ascend to the summit.

From the summit, descend west along the broad ridge, staying all the way to the left, and soon reach a subpeak from which a path branches off to the left downward, leading back to the Wessenkar hut where you would meet the ascent route again. If you continue west along the ridge and follow the marked path toward Gaishorn, you reach another small summit with a hunting stand on its north side and a small hunting hut below. From here, go a bit further west downhill to a meadow saddle with a wooden signpost "Gaishorn/Au." Here, turn sharply left, cross a flat meadow with a small Tauern water, and reach a path trace that descends diagonally left over a slope onto a wooded ridge that narrows downward. Follow this ridge straight down, first off-path, then on path traces, until you soon reach the "Iron Cross." Pass the cross on the right and continue descending off-path along the ridge until you reach a forest road with a turning area. From there, continue downhill past a hunting stand, initially on an overgrown embankment ramp right downward but soon turning left back onto the ridge where the ramp ends; then descend steeply off-path along the ridge again until another forest road at a bend with a fork, which you cross. Stay on the line of descent and continue descending in increasingly flatter terrain, finally on distinct path traces, until you reach another forest road at a bend with a junction. On this forest road, go downhill right after the bend until another forest track branches sharply left; follow it to its end and then briefly uphill. From here, descend one last time off-path in line of descent through open young forest until the terrain becomes too steep and you must veer left, where you can soon follow a passage down to the right and thus reach a large meadow in the valley bottom. Cross this meadow and reach a tractor track that leads left along the stream back to the starting point.