Rings, Waterfall Gorge (grade II) and Ringkamp

From Weichselboden, follow marker number 854 downstream until the first gate and there find an old wooden sign "Ring" on the left side of the road, pointing to a forest road to the right, which you follow. At the next junction, another wooden sign "Ring" points to the left. Shortly thereafter, the old path to Edelbodenalm branches off to the right, which is now barely recognizable, but continue straight ahead. At a fork, keep left, cross a stream, and on the other side meet a forest road that you follow downstream. The track leads into a gravel field where old cairns continue in a straight line. However, it is easier to follow the track and bypass the young gravel field on the left. Along the edge of the meadow, continue uphill past scattered cairns. Later you pass another scree field at its lower right edge. Subsequently, the old path has partially disappeared under massive accumulations, and you follow the cairns roughly in a straight line to the left edge of the valley head, where you traverse diagonally uphill left into the forest. From here, switchbacks lead steeply uphill on a very well-preserved path (cairns), which further up passes through craggy terrain (red dot markings). After a rocky passage protected by an old steel cable, the trail flattens again and leads to a scree field, which you cross diagonally to the left and then ascend along its left edge to the transition to the upper Ring (cairns). From the saddle under a small cross at the upper Ring, descend into the grassy hollow behind it, keeping rather to the right to reach the base of the cliff and climb somewhat arduously through a scree field up left until a large red arrow on the wall points right to the entrance of the Waterfall Gorge. From here, the route is very clearly and closely marked with red-orange dots and lines. First, it goes up over brittle rock until the vertical key point (grade II) is reached, which has relatively solid holds and grips. Then the terrain flattens again and you climb over crags and loose scree to the exit. There, follow the marked hiking trail to the right until it turns left and leads slightly downhill. Here you branch off straight ahead without a trail, climbing diagonally and hardly ascending through a craggy meadow slope until you reach a steep meadow leading directly to the summit. Follow this meadow steeply uphill and leave it at the top to the right to reach a ridge offering spectacular views deep into the Rings. (Alternatively to the meadow slope, you can keep a bit further right at the lower saddle and follow a line of old cairns directly through crags, which leads earlier onto the ridge with deep views, which you then follow to the left towards the summit over a somewhat exposed section.)

On the ridge, finally ascend to the summit cross.

For the descent, you can follow the ridge westward and descend to the marked hiking trail, which leads right to the Edelbodenalm.

Or from the summit go down northwards without a trail, keep right at a craggy gully to descend near the edge of the drop. Soon you see the Edelbodenalm far below and steer very steeply downhill towards a gap in the dwarf pines that points slightly left, cross the craggy gully at the bottom and turn into this gap that leads into a sparse larch forest. At the lower end of the gap begins a gully. Here you must immediately turn left onto a ridge if you want to avoid extreme steep terrain and continue diagonally left across the open steep forest, descending there via several very steep grassy gullies until at the very bottom you meet the marked path leading down right to Edelbodenalm.

To finish, walk back along the marked hiking trail to Weichselboden.