Goldau Rigi Kulm Küssnacht - Schwyzer Höhenweg Stages 1 and 2
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 11.92 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,301 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 4,488 ft
- Max elevation
- 5,873 ft
- TrailRank
- 34
- Min elevation
- 1,425 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 2 hours 52 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3386
- Uploaded
- October 12, 2018
- Recorded
- October 2018
near Goldau, Kanton Schwyz (Switzerland)
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Itinerary description
Fairly standard run done 11 Oct 2018 in 2hrs 32 min moving time (if you hike it Schweizmobil suggests 7h20 which seems fairly generous).
It departs from Arth Goldau trainstation up to Rigi Kulm and then back down to Küssnacht am Rigi train station.
Good views once you reach Kulm. Until then it goes mostly via forested areas and in the middle of a mini valley in the Rigi which doubles as a skiing piste during the winter.
It is actually stages 1 and 2 of the Schwyzer Höhenweg. Follow the yellow signs with a 63 and stay in the main Wanderweg. Difficult to miss. There are about 500 metres in which I did not follow the 63 route to the letter.
It is about 20km but with 1500 metres of elevation you get proper work out. It is pretty much all runnable.
The actual measured distance with Schweizmobil is about 20.5km. You will go through quite a few hairpin turns on way up and down and the GPS tends to often not be accurate with these.
It departs from Arth Goldau trainstation up to Rigi Kulm and then back down to Küssnacht am Rigi train station.
Good views once you reach Kulm. Until then it goes mostly via forested areas and in the middle of a mini valley in the Rigi which doubles as a skiing piste during the winter.
It is actually stages 1 and 2 of the Schwyzer Höhenweg. Follow the yellow signs with a 63 and stay in the main Wanderweg. Difficult to miss. There are about 500 metres in which I did not follow the 63 route to the letter.
It is about 20km but with 1500 metres of elevation you get proper work out. It is pretty much all runnable.
The actual measured distance with Schweizmobil is about 20.5km. You will go through quite a few hairpin turns on way up and down and the GPS tends to often not be accurate with these.
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