With a plan for a cross-country flight from Stoderzinken the next day, Manuel and I had the idea of making the most of the poor xc conditions by heading for a hike and fly in the Ponzgau, en-route to our destination for the next day.
We elected to climb the Lackenkogel which was a really beautiful walk, much better than I was expecting to be honest. From very early on we had wonderful views of the Dachsteingebirge, which only got better as we passed the Lackenalm as we could then see into the Hohe Tauern.
The path from the Lackenalm traversed around the west side of the mountain, which provided a beautiful view, but also gave us a relatively snow free ascent, it would have been a different story if we had ascended the north facing slopes. We made very good time on the ascent and were soon at the ridge up to the summit where the views really opened up, and they were absolutely fantastic.
After the short ridge up to the summit we were greeted by a perfect wind to start, which was fortunate as the area was not that big when the areas which were covered in deep and very soft snow were removed from the equation. I was pretty glad to be launching my hit and fly wing, rather than Manuel who had his xc gear.
A short flight down and we landed in a meadow just by the cars, before heading to a beer garden for some well earned food.
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