CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Austria's alpine toll road to 2,504 m. Closed in winter, and worth the toll. From Kaprun it runs 25 km to Heiligenblut; allow about 27 min of riding. The highest point is about 2,500 m. Fuscher Torl and Hochtor are open in summer only - check it is open before you set off. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 6 km this is Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse point 2.
At 2,428 metres, Fuscher Törl is the high balcony of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, a saddle on the northern side where the road loops around a ridge and the whole of the Fusch valley drops away below. A stone monument stands here in memory of the men who built the road, designed by the architect Clemens Holzmeister, and from the terrace you look across a sea of peaks to the summit of the Grossglockner itself, at 3,798 metres the highest mountain in Austria.
Read the complete Near Heiligenblut write-up.
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Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse point 2 comes up 6 km in. Next is Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse point 3.
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Read the complete Near Heiligenblut write-up.
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13 km in you reach Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse point 3. Next is Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse point 4.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Near Heiligenblut write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse point 4, late in the day. Next is Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse point 5.
Heiligenblut is the village that every picture of the Grossglockner seems to include. The Gothic church of St Vincent, with its slender spire, stands on a knoll at the head of the Mölltal, and behind it the great snow cone of the mountain rises above forested slopes, the whole composition so tidy that it looks like a painting. At about 1,300 metres, the village is the last settlement on the Carinthian side before the high road climbs toward the glacier, and it has been a pilgrimage stop for centuries.
Read the complete Heiligenblut write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse point 5 sits at 25 km, late in the day.