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Wind Park Pretul: Extreme Mountain Bike Variant

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With this EXTREM variant, all the ascent and descent options of the Pretul Windpark-routes are travelled in one round trip.

The Windpark on Pretul was opened in 2017. In this context, the mountain bike trails of the Wind+Bike Park Pretul were opened in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Forests. The routes can be ridden as a circular tour or as individual tours. 

The EXTREM variant described here includes all individual routes and leads as a circular tour via the municipalities of Mürzzuschlag, Langenwang and Spital am Semmering. 

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

January
February
March
April
November
December

The tour in numbers

challenging
Level of difficulty
57,0 km
Route
6:00 h
Time
2086 hm
Uphill
2087 hm
Downhill
1655 m
Highest point

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Take the S6 Semmering motorway at the Mürzzuschlag West exit and park your car at the access road to Mürzzuschlag-Ganz. Here you have immediate access to the mountain road to the Bärenkogel. 

We start our tour at the Mürzzuschlag West motorway exit and take the asphalt mountain road up to the Bärenkogel. This route takes us past the Bärenkogel saddle via a forest path directly to the Ganzalm. Approx. 50 metres after the Naturfreundehaus on the Ganzalm, we turn left and take the Ganzweg in the direction of the Moschkogel. At the latest here - at the Moschkogel-Alm - we should take a short break for refreshments.

From the Moschkogel-Alm we head uphill again, this time to the Geiereck. Here we turn left to the Schwarzriegelmoor. From here, the route descends steeply to the Schwarzriegelalm and continues downhill via the Auersbach stream back to Mürzzuschlag.

Here we turn right at the main road and cycle along the R46 cycle path to Spital am Semmering. The path then leads us to the right over the Kaltenbachgraben. We cycle past the middle station of the Stuhleck mountain lifts and the Promibahn to the Friedrichhütte mountain inn. From the Friedrichhütte, we continue in the direction of the Steinbachalm and Schwarzriegelalm, where we had already been at the start of our tour.  Now we take the steep ascent up to the Schwarzriegelmoor and over the Geiereck and Pretul to the Roseggerhaus.

From the Roseggerhaus it is now all downhill for us - via the Ganzalm and the Bärenkogel to the starting point of our tour, Mürzzuschlag. 

Take advantage of the opportunities to stop for refreshments on this tour and keep your water bottles well filled!

Take the train to Mürzzuschlag station. From here continue by bike in the direction of Hönigsberg. At the roundabout (near Gasthof Lendl) head towards Mürzzuschlag-Ganz. The road leading up to the Bärenkogel is on the right. 

ÖBB:  www.oebb.at  or Verbundlinie Steiermark:  www.busbahnbim.at  

Free parking in the ‘Mürzzuschlag-Ganz access road’ area.

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What the weather will be like

Mürzzuschlag (674m)

Morning
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6°C
85%
5 km/h
Noon
foggy
10°C
80%
15 km/h
Night
slightly cloudy
6°C
30%
5 km/h
Rainfall will end around noon, then the clouds will break up.
Morning
foggy
3°C
65%
0 km/h
Noon
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5°C
85%
5 km/h
Night
foggy
4°C
80%
5 km/h
Rain for most of the day, maximum intensities around noon.
15.03.2025
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2°C 6°C
16.03.2025
cloudy
1°C 8°C
17.03.2025
slightly cloudy
-1°C 8°C

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