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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

Accessible by public transport

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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What the weather will be like Gaal (874m)

Today, 26.10.2025

Partly sunny in the morning, gradually becoming cloudy in the afternoon.
Morning
sunny
2°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 15%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h
Noon
slightly cloudy
8°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 45%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h
Night
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4°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 25%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h

Tomorrow, 27.10.2025

Fair in the early morning, later frequent, but rather light rain.
Morning
slightly cloudy
0°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 5%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h
Noon
foggy
7°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 60%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h
Night
foggy
5°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 75%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h

Forecast

28.10.2025
slightly cloudy
1°C 11°C
29.10.2025
slightly cloudy
1°C 13°C
30.10.2025
slightly cloudy
3°C 14°C

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