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
foggy
11°C
60%
5 km/h
Noon
foggy
15°C
80%
10 km/h
Night
slightly cloudy
14°C
40%
10 km/h
The rain will end in the early afternoon, and the skies will break up afterwards.
Morning
sunny
11°C
5%
5 km/h
Noon
slightly cloudy
19°C
5%
10 km/h
Night
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16°C
10%
5 km/h
Partly sunny in the morning, gradually becoming cloudy in the afternoon.
05.08.2025
sunny
11°C 24°C
06.08.2025
sunny
11°C 22°C
07.08.2025
slightly cloudy
10°C 24°C
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