Hiking route Rettlkirchspitze - Touren-Impression #1 | © Tourismusverband Murau Hiking route Rettlkirchspitze - Touren-Impression #1 | © Tourismusverband Murau

Rettlkirchspitze

Varied ridge tour that requires sure-footedness and a head for heights.
This is a difficult hike that should only be attempted by advanced and experienced hikers. The decisive factor here is the ascent and descent passages, some of which have to be climbed.

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

January
February
March
April
November
December

The tour in numbers

challenging
Level of difficulty
9,4 km
Route
5:30 h
Time
924 hm
Uphill
924 hm
Downhill
2448 m
Highest point

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More information

Coming from Judenburg via Unzmarkt to Scheifling. Turn right here and drive towards Murau. In Niederwölz turn right to Oberwölz. Keep left here towards Pöllau am Greim. Turn right and drive along Eselsberger Weg to the Hölzlerhütte.

From Tamsweg via Ranten (or Stadl an der Mur) drive to Murau. Continue to Niederwölz, turn left here towards Oberwölz. In Oberwölz continue to Pöllau am Greim. Turn right and drive along Eselsberger Weg to the Hölzlerhütte.

From the Hölzlerhütte car park, walk westwards on a cart path to a junction. Here you march southwards over bushes and alpine pastures to the Funklscharte at 2,260m; Now you hike or partly climb to the right over the south-east ridge to a pre-summit and further to the left to the nearby Rettlkirchspitze.

The descent takes place on the route already known from the way there.

Due to the steep grassy slopes, do not climb when it is wet!
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Public parking spaces are available directly at the Hölzlerhütte.
The ideal time for this tour is from May to October. Information brochures are available at the various information offices.

Gallery

Spiegelsee Reiteralm | © photo-austria / Christine Höflehner

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