| Großer Grießstein Mountain/Rock |
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| Großer Grießstein   | 
| Page Type: Mountain/Rock Location: Seckauer Alps, Austria, Europe Lat/Lon: 47.39083°N / 14.53944°E County: Steiermark (Styria) Activities: Hiking, Mountaineering, Scrambling Season: Spring, Summer, Fall Elevation: 7667 ft / 2337 m | Page By: toc Created/Edited: Feb 17, 2008 / Feb 17, 2008 Object ID: 381372 Hits: 355 Loading... Page Score: 89.55% - 16 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
General Survey Großer
Grießstein is the highest summit of
Triebener Tauern,
the nordwesternmost range of Seckauer Alps.
Because of it's almost outposted position on the
Triebener Tauern ridge (Triebenerkamm),
this summit made of
mixed granite slabs and thick grass does offer extensive panorama views
over the Niedere Tauern range.
Grießstein is also
acknowledged as ski tour destination.
The easiest
way to the summit over the NW ridge can be divided into two parts:
I
- Trieben valley (Triebener tal) to the Trieben
pass (Triebenertörl)
- around 2 hours and 1200m/5900ft
of altitude difference
II - Trieben pass to the
summit - around 1 and half hour and 430m/1400ft of altitude
difference
I - From the Sayfried, follow yellow
waymark no.949 for Triebenertörl, first over the meadows,
then uphill through the woods.
Halfway, you'll find
the water source, just in case you have forgot to take it with you.
As path reaches above the treeline, it does steepen a bit, but no technical difficulties whatsoever.
And after some 2 hours you'll find
yourself on the Triebenertörl pass.
Triebenertörl is
pretty, flora rich and grassy pass lacated between valleys of
Bärental
and Triebental
and
summits of Grießstein
and Sonntagskogel.
It
is worth to have stopover here, as the pass itself does offer
nice overview of the Triebener range mountains,
as well as
beautiful panoramic view toward Gesäuse
part of the Ennstaler
Alps,
with
Buchstein,
Admonter
Reichenstein and Admonter
Kalbling competing for your attention.
II -
From here goes more serious, path steepens over the
loose slabs (in case of fog, could be tricky)
and it takes few
passages where moderate scrambling skills and surefoot is
mandatory.
Reward after 90 minutes is the summit cross on Großer Grießstein
- must be windy place as the cross itself is fixed with numerous iron
ropes.
Panoramic views in all directions.
Return the
same way.
After good two and half hours, you'll be again next to your
car.
Maybe short subchapter on the parent Seckauer
Alps range:
Radstädter
Tauern, Schladminger
Tauern, Rottenmanner
& Wölzer Tauern
and Seckauer
Tauern together, form the Niederen
Tauern range.
Seckauer Tauern is the easternmost
group of the Niederen Tauern.
It is limited by the valleys of
Ingeringbach and Liesing.
Highest summit is Geierhaupt
(2.417m)
Triebener Tauern is the northwesternmost part of
Seckauer Tauern,
axe of the Triebener Tauern is the 1274m high
Triebener Tauern mountain Pass
that crosses the Niedere Tauern
and connects the Mur River valley near Judenburg
with the
Palten River valley near Trieben.Panorama view from the summit
Panorama in original size
Getting There By
car:
From Germany: via München-Salzburg
oder Nürnberg-Passau
From Vienna: Südautobahn-Semmering
from St. Michael over A 9 to Trieben or via S 36
direction Judenburg.
From Graz: Motorway A9 due
Salzburg, take off for Trieben, regional
road B113 due Hohentauern,
at Hohentauern fork for
the Vordertriebental valley and drive till the Sayfried village
(1117m/3670ft).
Park somewhere at the end of the village and
look for the well marked path on your right.
By train or coach:
Railway route Selzthal-Trieben, or. St. Michael-Trieben.
Trieben
is the nearest train stop Austrian
railways connection search
Nnearest postbus stop
is Gasthof Brodjäger Postbus
search site
Air transport:
By plain: nearest intl airport is Graz
Flughafen
( this airport is
also served by various low cost carriers like RyanAir)Camping & Huts Nearest hut is located in Trieben valley (Triebental) north
of the mountain.
As Grießstein can be done inside
half day, staying in the hut is not common, though.
Triebentalhütte,
1.104 m
OeAV
Sektion Akad. Sektion Graz
18 bunks unshielded, open
only after the announce one's visit
Contact info:
hut warden
Willibald Zich
Bergstrasse 44
A-8020
Graz
phone (hut
warden): +43 3618 268
phone (hut):
+43 316 575156
fax: +43 316 81247415
Nearest
train stop is Trieben , nearest postbus stop Gasthof Brodjäger.
Postbus search site
Austrian Railways
Geting
there by car is described above in the Getting There chapter.
Apart
from Grießstein, hut may be but doesn't have to be
combined
with ascends of Gamskögl
( 2.365m) and Geierkogel
(2.237m)Weather Maps & Security Weather:
from
wetter.at (German)
Avalanche info
service Styria (German)
Webcams:
none
of the webcam chiefly shows our mountain,
but several are
inside reasonable distance:
Hohentauern
Ennstaler
Alps
Maps:
freytag
& berndt WK 212 Gebirge / Gebiet
Triebener Tauern
Kompass
222 Rottenmanner
Tauern, Wölzer Tauern, Triebener Tauern
Security:
Mountain rescue service, dial 140 Images
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