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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Out of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, one way: 177 km, roughly 2 h 52 in the saddle. It goes by way of Walchensee and Tegernsee. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The ride follows Achenpass for 63 km.
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen lies in a wide Alpine valley in Bavaria, close to the Austrian border, with the Wetterstein range rising behind it and the Zugspitze, at 2,962 metres the highest mountain in Germany, standing at the end of the valley. The town is really two, Garmisch and Partenkirchen, joined together for the 1936 Winter Olympics, and each still has its own character. Partenkirchen, the older part, has a Roman history, as it stood on the road across the Alps, and its main street, with painted houses, is the more charming.
Read the complete Garmisch-Partenkirchen write-up.
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Garmisch Partenkirchen is where the day begins. Next is Walchensee.
Walchensee is one of the deepest and clearest alpine lakes in Germany, lying at about eight hundred metres in the Bavarian Pre-Alps, with a surface the colour of turquoise glass on a good day and dark green on a stormy one. The lake is surrounded by forested mountains, with the Herzogstand and the Heimgarten rising to the north, and it has a calm, almost Scandinavian look in the early morning.
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Walchensee comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tegernsee.
Tegernsee is a lake town in the Bavarian foothills, at the eastern edge of the Tegernsee valley, with the lake in front and steep, forested mountains behind. The Benedictine monastery that gave the place its name was founded in the eighth century, and its church and cloister still dominate the shore, though the buildings are now partly a secondary school and partly a brewery tavern, the Bräustüberl, where locals and visitors share long tables and big pretzels in the courtyard. It is a lively place on a sunny afternoon, with a crowd of beer drinkers, cyclists and bikers.
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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Tegernsee. Next is Reit im Winkl.
Reit im Winkl is the snow-sure village at the end of the Chiemgau Alps, a pocket of Bavaria wedged into the corner where Germany meets Austria. At about 700 metres, it sits in a high, green bowl among steep peaks, with the Kaisergebirge, the jagged limestone range of the Tyrolean Kaiser mountains, standing across the border to the south. The snow here is dependable in winter, and the place has produced a number of Olympic skiers.
Read the complete Reit im Winkl write-up.
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Reit im Winkl closes the day.
Garmisch Partenkirchen → Walchensee is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Walchensee → Tegernsee is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tegernsee → Reit im Winkl is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.