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Mountain Hike recommended route Mountain Hike  · Upper Austrian Prealps

Zwillingskogel crossing

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  • pleasant forest path near Grünau
    pleasant forest path near Grünau
    Photo: Wolfgang Lauschensky, Alpenverein Braunau

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    Moderate mountain hike on a wooded pre-alpine mountain in the Almtal. Beautiful views of Traunstein and the Totes Gebirge.
    moderate
    Distance 12.4 km
    6:20 h
    1,000 m
    1,000 m
    1,402 m
    509 m
    The Zwillingskogel is mostly ascended and descended from Grünau via the southeast ridge. The crossing offers a varied round with an uncomplicated (flat road) return to the starting point.
    Difficulty
    T3 moderate
    Overall difficulty
    moderate

    Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.

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    Highest point
    Zwillingskogel, 1,402 m
    Lowest point
    Grünau station, 509 m
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    Track types

    Asphalt 0.92%Forested/wild trail 0.17%Path 2%Unknown 96.89%
    Asphalt
    115 m
    Forested/wild trail
    21 m
    Path
    247 m
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    12 km
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    Safety information

    Partly quite steep mountain paths both on ascent and descent. Dangerous when wet.

    Tips and suggestions

    No refreshment opportunities during the route.

    Roadbook

    Immediately after the station, walk 200m flat northwards to the left of the tracks. You will enter a service road and follow it according to the signposts. The road quickly becomes quite steep. Before the first hairpin bend, a hiking trail leads up through the eastern mountain forest to a saddle. Here you switch to the steep western slope and cross a narrow path in the steep forest. Some short rocky steps are secured with a nylon rope. After the strenuous flank ascent, the summit ridge is reached via a short flat section. In the now open forest, you ascend the rocky southeast ridge to the subpeak. Then you cross the rocky ridge on the west side down to the summit rock. At the western rock foot, we briefly cross northwards. A steep and well-stepped rock gully leads directly up to the summit cross on the right (easy climbing UIAA I-).

    Descent to the marked hiking trail via secured rocky steps north of the ascent gully. Now we follow the signpost "Durchgang" to the right and descend to the saddle in front of the north summit. In rocky larch corridors, we quickly reach the broad, unadorned north summit. Behind it, a very broad and rather flat mountain ridge leads down into the hollow before the Steineck. On the forest road, you would continue to the left towards Mairalm/Gmunden. However, we follow the ridge northwards to the "Durchgang" junction uphill. Now it goes quite steeply down eastwards on a somewhat earthy and often damp path with short protections into the Hauergraben. After many steep hairpins, we reach a service road which we follow past the hiking car park for quite a while to a farm with a mill. Here we turn right, cross the Bachgraben, and follow the service road slightly uphill southwards. Soon the path leads past a farm to the village road Traxenbichl/Grünau. Along this paved road, we return to Grünau station.

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    Obere Höll 515m
    Jagdhütte 570m
    Zwillingskogel Winter 1402m
    Durchgang 1158 m
    Wiesleiten 510m

    Public transport

    Public-transport-friendly

    From Wels by the Almtalbahn to Grünau.

    Directions

    Take the A1 motorway exit at Vorchdorf. Drive via Pettenbach and Scharnstein into the Almtal to Grünau. The station is at the south end of the village.

    Parking

    At the station of Grünau.

    Coordinates

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    47.853468, 13.949123
    DMS
    47°51'12.5"N 13°56'56.8"E
    UTM
    33T 421387 5300548
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    Author’s map recommendations

    Amap, ÖK50 map sheet 67 or 3306

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    Equipment

    Simple hiking gear, sturdy footwear

    Localization

    Parts of this content were machine translated from German.

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    Difficulty
    T3 moderate
    Overall difficulty
    moderate

    Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.

    Distance
    12.4 km
    Duration
    6:20 h
    Ascent
    1,000 m
    Descent
    1,000 m
    Highest point
    1,402 m
    Lowest point
    509 m
    Public-transport-friendly Round trip Scenic Summit route

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