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Dachstein Glacier - Panorama XC Trail

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Panoramic loop on the Schladminger and Hallstätter Glacier at Dachstein.

The panorama trail is groomed as an alternative to the training trails on the Ramsau and Hallstatt glaciers and is approx. 5 km long. The trail connects the glacier experience on the two partial glaciers of the Dachstein via two wide loops.

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

July
August
September

The tour in numbers

medium
Level of difficulty
5,4 km
Route
1:30 h
Time
270 hm
Uphill
270 hm
Downhill
2665 m
Highest point

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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.

At the end of the steps from the mountain station of the Gletscherbahn on the Hunerkogel you get on your cross-country skis and first ski down to your right onto the Schladming Glacier, where a wide loop takes you over the glacier under the impressive panorama of the Koppenkarstein. Sporty, it then goes back uphill to the Gjaidsteinsattel and now to the Hallstatt Glacier, where a spacious loop between Gjaidstein and Eisstein takes you back to the Gjaidsteinsattel and your starting point in a beautiful round.

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

Gallery

Spiegelsee Reiteralm | © photo-austria / Christine Höflehner

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