Dachstein Glacier - Ramsauer XC Trail

moderate open Cross-country skiing · Dachstein

Tour characteristics
Stamina
Technique
Tour-Infos
Distance: 5.5 km
Duration: 01:19 h
Ascent: 115 m
Descent: 115 m
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The tour

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.

Turn-by-turn directions

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!

Getting there

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.

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

Parking

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

Start
Dachstein cable-car mountain terminal
Destination
Dachstein cable-car mountain terminal
Equipment
  • Cross-country equipment for classic or skating technique with appropriate cross-country skis, sticks and boots.
  • Warm, breathable clothing.
  • Gloves, hood
  • Sunglasses
  • Sun screen

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Weather forecast

Date
in the morning
3°C
at noon
10°C
in the evening
6°C
The day starts sunny, but will be partly cloudy in the afternoon.
in the morning
4°C
at noon
12°C
in the evening
5°C
Dry and partly sunny throughout the day, with cloudy periods from time to time.
in the morning
3°C
at noon
11°C
in the evening
5°C
Dry and sunny throughout the day with hardly any clouds.

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