CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 128 km round trip from Salzburg - roughly 2 h 11 in the saddle. The stops in between: See, Abtsdorf III, Abtsdorf I and Litzlberg Süd. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 39 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Salzburg owes its name and its wealth to salt, the white gold that was mined in the nearby hills and floated down the Salzach river for centuries. The prince-archbishops who ruled the city used that income to turn it into a baroque stage set, with domes, fountains and palaces crowded below the mighty fortress of Hohensalzburg, which looks down from its rock over the old town. The city is also the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in 1756 in a narrow house on the Getreidegasse, and every summer the Salzburg Festival fills the squares and churches with music.
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Salzburg is where the day begins. Next is See.
At the southeastern tip of the Mondsee, where the lake narrows toward the Attersee and the cliffs of the Drachenwand and the Schafberg crowd in on both sides, lies a hamlet with the shortest name you will find on any map: See. Just offshore, in the shallow water where the lake drains, divers found the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement, and the finds were so characteristic that archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after the lake: the Mondsee culture, known for its decorated pottery and early copper working. The site is part of the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and as with most of them, there is nothing to see except the water, which is part of the point.
Read the complete See write-up.
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See comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abtsdorf III.
The Attersee is the biggest lake in the Salzkammergut, and Abtsdorf sits on its western shore, a settlement so small the label can get away with a Roman numeral. In this case the III means a third spot among a cluster of lake access points, so what you are really visiting is the shoreline between Attersee village and Weyregg, where the water is startlingly clear and the mountains stand up behind the opposite bank.
Read the complete Abtsdorf III write-up.
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At least about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Abtsdorf III. Next is Abtsdorf I.
Abtsdorf lies on the western shore of the Attersee, the largest lake in the Salzkammergut, a region of lakes, forests and limestone peaks east of Salzburg. The water is remarkably clear, a deep blue-green that looks almost Mediterranean on a bright day, and the lake is about twenty kilometres long, which makes it a gentle place to ride beside. The towns along the shore, Attersee and Weyregg among them, are small and old-fashioned, with sailing clubs and cafes that open onto the water.
Read the complete Abtsdorf I write-up.
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Abtsdorf I, about halfway. Next is Litzlberg Süd.
Attersee is the largest lake lying entirely within Austria, and the water is so clear and clean that boats seem to hang over their own shadows. It lies in the Salzkammergut, the lake district east of Salzburg, ringed by forested hills and with the limestone wall of the Hollengebirge at its southern end. Litzlberg sits on the western shore, a short way from Seewalchen, where the lake narrows and the shoreline is a mix of meadows, reed beds and villas with boathouses. It is a place that people have lived since the Stone Age, and the lake bed here holds the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings that are part of the UNESCO listing for such sites around the Alps.
Read the complete Litzlberg Süd write-up.
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Litzlberg Süd sits at 62 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abtsdorf I.
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Read the complete Abtsdorf I write-up.
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back through Abtsdorf I comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abtsdorf III.
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Read the complete Abtsdorf III write-up.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abtsdorf III. Next is back through See.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete See write-up.
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back through See, late in the day. Next is Salzburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Salzburg write-up.
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The route ends here after 128 km.
Salzburg → See is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
See → Abtsdorf III is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abtsdorf I → Litzlberg Süd is 7 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Litzlberg Süd → back through Abtsdorf I is 7 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abtsdorf III → back through See is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through See → Salzburg is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.