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Dachstein Glacier - Ramsauer XC Trail

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Intermediate trail on the Schladming Glacier for classic and skating, up to 5 km long at 2,570 to 2,670 m above sea level.

The Ramsau trail is the shorter of the two high-alpine glacier trails on the Dachstein Glacier and offers you glacier cross-country skiing with a great view towards Grimming and the Krippenstein.

Enjoy up to 5 km of perfectly groomed trails at over 2,500 m above sea level on the Schladming Glacier between Gjaidstein and Koppenkarstein. Run and train where the world elite of Nordic skiing regularly train.

You can reach the trails with the Dachstein Gletscherbahn.

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

June
July
August
September

The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
5,5 km
Route
1:20 h
Time
115 hm
Uphill
115 hm
Downhill
2663 m
Highest point

Map & downloads

More information

From the West: Take the A10 to Knoten Ennstal - take the exit towards Graz/Schladming. Drive along the Ennstal-Bundesstraße for approx. 20 km until you reach Schladming. Take the turn-off for Ramsau. 

From the North: Take the Pyhrnautobahn direction Liezen. Then follow the Ennstalbundesstraße to Schladming. Take the turn-off for Ramsau.

Then continue through the village of Ramsau and follow the Dachstein toll road to the valley terminal of the Dachstein glacier cable-car.

from the mountain station of the Dachstein cable car you go up the metal stairs to the beginning of the groomed hiking trail and from there slowly descend in the direction of the Gjaidsteinsattel. Please be considerate of the hikers next to you in this area. In front of the saddle you then branch off along the track to the right and drive downhill to the Schladminger Glacier where the loops of the Ramsau Loipe wind over the glacier. Have fun!

With the buses of the Ramsauer Verkehrsbetriebe (RVB) from Schladming (also the train station) to the valley station of the Gletscherbahn.

Parking lot at the valley terminal of Dachstein Glacier cable-car.

Information on the Dachstein Glacier at www.derdachstein.at

  • XC map Ramsau am Dachstein
  • Winter map WEST of the Schladming-Dachstein region

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Spiegelsee Reiteralm | © photo-austria / Christine Höflehner

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