CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Davos it runs 488 km to Davos; allow about 7 h 47 of riding. The stops in between: Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L, Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona, back through Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona and back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,500 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 45 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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At about 1,560 metres, Davos is often called the highest town in Europe, and it is certainly one of the most unusual. It lies in a long, broad valley of Graubünden, with ski slopes on both sides, a lake, a main street that looks like a motorway, and a mix of grand old sanatoria, apartment blocks and hotels that tells the story of the town.
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Davos is where the day begins. Next is Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L.
The Rhaetian Railway's Albula and Bernina lines were built in the early twentieth century to connect the Engadine with the rest of Switzerland and with Italy, and they are masterpieces of mountain railway engineering, with spiral tunnels, viaducts and gradients that seem impossible for a train. They were listed by UNESCO in 2008 together with the landscapes they cross, and St. If you ride in this area, you will see the red trains everywhere, and you will often be riding beside them.
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Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L comes up 33 km in. Next is Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L.
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67 km in you reach Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L. Next is Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona.
Twice a year, in spring and autumn, the sun shines through a hole in a mountain ridge and lights up the church tower of Elm, a village in the Sernf valley of canton Glarus. The hole is the Martinsloch, a natural window in the Tschingelhörner, and it sits right on one of the most famous geological features in the world: a sharp line along the cliffs, clearly visible from the valley, where older rock lies on top of much younger rock. This is the Glarus thrust, and it helped geologists understand how mountains are built by the stacking of enormous slabs of the earth's crust. The Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona was listed by UNESCO in 2008.
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Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona, about halfway.
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Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona.
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back through Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona comes up 166 km in. Next is back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L.
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200 km in you reach back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L. Next is back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L.
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back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L, late in the day. Next is Davos.
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The route ends here after 488 km.
Davos → Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L → Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona → back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina L → Davos is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.