Cross country skiing trails around the lake

On the following pages the you will find all the cross country ski trails around the Wolfgangsee:

Ried cross country ski trail:
6 km/ 3.4 mi (trail prepared for the classic technique)
Very sunny!
Grade: Medium difficulty
Starting point: Western end of the Ried Road (car parking available)

Route: The trail leads across the pastures above the houses of Ried, is very sunny and has a splendid view of the lake and the mountains beyond the south shore.

Wolfgangthal cross country skiing trail:
Linked to the Strobl trail
18 km (classic technique)
18 km (skating technique)
Very sunny with a beautiful view of the mountains surrounding the Wolfgangsee.
Level of difficulty: on the whole an easy, flat stretch but there are some fairly difficult ascents and descents in the area around the golf course.
Starting ppoints : 1. Schwarzenbach – the trail can be joined 200m from the bus stop, in the direction of Ruβbach, on the right after the bridge.
Parking: There is a small car park near the entrance mentioned above, and also one near the sports field 300m in the direction of St. Wolfgang. 2nd Ruβbach bus stop 3nd Pfandl bus stop

Route description: From Schwarzenbach take the right trail towards Strobl then over a bridge to the fork in the trail.
The right fork leads to Strobl and the left fork leads on further round the Mönichsreith hill and continues on over a flat meadow in a large curve to the Ruβbach brook. Go over the bridge here to the Meislbauer farm, then further on over the flat meadow to Windhag. There is now a lengthy, gentle descent over the golf course towards the Golf Hotel to another fork. The right fork leads to Pfandl (3 km) over very flat terrain and the left fork leads to Radau, over the Wirlinger meadow and after this to the crossroads in Ruβbach (bus stop). Here you can either branch off right onto the Ruβbach extension (3 km rolling gradient, 2 km of which is a skating trail) or carry straight on further over the flat meadow back to your initial starting point.

Strobl cross country skiing trail:
: 17 km/ 10.5 m (trail prepared for classic technique)
17 km/ 1.9 m (trail prepared for skating technique)
Grade: easy and very level terrain
Starting points: 1. Sport fields (parking available)
2nd Bus terminal Strobl (parking available)
3rd Gasthof (Inn) Wiesenhof in Gschwendt (parking beside the main road )
4th Gasthof (Inn) Weissenbach and Hotel Bergrosein Weissenbach

Trail route:
From the bus terminal in Strobl go over the level pastures southwards towards the Alpenmoorbad, then westwards to the sport fields and through the Blinklingmoos Nature Reserve parallel to the shore of the Wolfgangsee to Gschwendt. Before reaching the Zinkenbach brook , the trail turns back via the Wiesenhof Inn and the sport fields. Before you come back to the bus terminal, you can turn off to the right and go through the under pass to the other side of the main road to Weissenbach. From the Hotel Bergrose and the Weissenbach Inn you can return back to the starting point.
The 3 kilometre long skating stretch is located in the hamlet of Weissenbach. Access is to be found at the Weissenbach Inn and Hotel Bergrose.

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