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Großer Ringkogel starting from Gaal

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

The tour in numbers

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

Best season

January
February
March
April
November
December

More information

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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cattle on the Brandriedl with view to the Dachstein (Ramsau am Dachstein)

What the weather will be like Gaal (874m)

Today, 13.08.2026

Dry and sunny throughout the day with hardly any clouds.
Morning
very sunny
15°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 0%
sr.Windstärke 0 km/h
Noon
very sunny
26°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 0%
sr.Windstärke 10 km/h
Night
very sunny
21°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 0%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h

Tomorrow, 14.08.2026

Dry and sunny throughout the day with hardly any clouds.
Morning
very sunny
14°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 0%
sr.Windstärke 0 km/h
Noon
very sunny
27°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 0%
sr.Windstärke 10 km/h
Night
very sunny
22°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 0%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h

Forecast

15.08.2026
very sunny
12°C 30°C
16.08.2026
rainy
14°C 29°C
17.08.2026
rainy
14°C 23°C
GSchlössl

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