Hiking route Großer Ringkogel starting from Gaal - Touren-Impression #1 | © Wolfgang Mitteregger Hiking route Großer Ringkogel starting from Gaal - Touren-Impression #1 | © Wolfgang Mitteregger

Großer Ringkogel starting from Gaal

Open
Very long ascent to the broad ridges of the Kleiner and Großer Ringkogel.
You start at the Gaalreiter and from here you hike up to the Repenstein (1,958m) on marked paths. You follow trail no. 980 and first reach the Kleiner Ringkogel and only a little later the Großer Ringkogel (2,277). 

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

January
February
March
April
November
December

The tour in numbers

challenging
Level of difficulty
19,3 km
Route
7:30 h
Time
1400 hm
Uphill
1400 hm
Downhill
2277 m
Highest point

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Exit Knittelfeld West on the S36 - direction Gaal 
Demanding mountain tour partly in alpine pasture terrain

You start at the Gaalreiter and from here you hike up to the Repenstein (1,958m) on marked paths. You follow trail no. 980 and first reach the Kleiner Ringkogel and only a little later the Großer Ringkogel (2,277).

Take special care in bad weather!
Public transportation not possible.
Gratis parken
More information at www.murtal.at/wandern  Wanderkarte freytag & berndt WK 212 Seetaler Alpen, Seckauer Alpen, Judenburg, Knittelfeld

Wegnummer: 35, 980

In the Murtal region there are three free hiking maps that show the entire region with the Seetaler Alps, Seckauer-, Wölzer-, Rottenmanner Tauern, Stubalpe and the Pöls- and Murtal. The maps are in scale 1.50.000.

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What the weather will be like

Gaal (874m)

Morning
sunny
9°C
0%
0 km/h
Noon
very sunny
18°C
5%
10 km/h
Night
very sunny
14°C
10%
0 km/h
Some clouds in the morning, lateron much sunshine and hardly any clouds
Morning
very sunny
10°C
0%
0 km/h
Noon
very sunny
20°C
20%
10 km/h
Night
sunny
16°C
25%
5 km/h
Dry and bright with plenty of sunshine, clouds will be rare.
20.05.2024
sunny
8°C 21°C
21.05.2024
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10°C 19°C
22.05.2024
cloudy
9°C 18°C
Naturpark-Bank | © Alpengasthof Moser - ArisMedia

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