Access: From the centre of Palfau to W on the asphalted access road to the church parking lot.
Then along the apshalt road until you reach the Bergbauer farmstead. After N, follow the markings over moderately steep meadow and mixed forest terrain to the TVN Palfau Friends of Nature Hut. Continue to N, through sparse high forest following the markings of the summer path over the Hühnerriegel to the forest border. Follow the now flatter, copied ridge until it merges between two large, steep cirques into the summit slope. Between the rock on the left side (W) and the steep summit slope on the right (O), descending into the cirque, climb up to the ridge and cross the ridge about 20m after W to the summit cross.
At the ridge about 200m after W to the summit of the Hochkogel, 1.774m.
Return route: Follow the marked trail 284(64) to the NE following the marked trail 284(64) across the ridge of the Gamsstein massif, over idyllic high alpine meadows to the fork of trail 64 to Hollenstein/NÖ and 284(63) to Palfau/Steiria. After S on the old alpine path 284(63), past the remains of a former night stand for grazing cattle and a hunting lodge on the Moar-(hoch)alm. Follow the moderately steep trail 284(63), initially slightly rocky and then through high forest, to the Moar-(nieder)alm. From the fork in the forest path on the Moar-(nieder)alm, take forest path 284(63), which now runs together with the Schwärzer-Rundweg R6 down into the valley, to the Mühlbauer Kogel in the south. Follow the marked path 284(63) to the edge of the forest and further to the post office Palfau or GH Stiegenwirt.