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

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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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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What the weather will be like

Gaal (874m)

Morning
slightly cloudy
16°C
30%
0 km/h
Noon
slightly cloudy
22°C
60%
5 km/h
Night
rainy
17°C
65%
5 km/h
Quite sunny with scattered clouds during the day, but a chance of thunderstorms towards evening.
Morning
slightly cloudy
14°C
20%
0 km/h
Noon
very sunny
21°C
30%
5 km/h
Night
very sunny
18°C
30%
5 km/h
Some clouds in the morning, lateron much sunshine and hardly any clouds
02.08.2024
slightly cloudy
13°C 24°C
03.08.2024
sunny
12°C 23°C
04.08.2024
cloudy
12°C 23°C
Kindererlebnis-Bauernhof Perhofer, Silvia | © Oststeiermark Tourismus, Rene Strasser

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