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: producer-declared routed record.
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1,948 m, narrow and quiet, with the Schächental below. A one-way ride of 78 km, Altdorf to Linthal - roughly 1 h 23 in the saddle. The highest point is about 1,950 m. Klausen Pass is subject to seasonal closure - 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 20 km this is Klausen Pass, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Altdorf is the capital of the canton of Uri, a small town at the head of Lake Lucerne's southern arm where the Reuss river leaves the mountains and the Gotthard route begins. It is a practical, low-key place, flat and sheltered, with a pretty centre and a roar of traffic nearby from the motorway, and it is the sort of town where riders refill the tank, buy a coffee and look up at the wall of peaks above.
Read the complete Altdorf fuel gate write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Klausen Pass point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Klausen Pass point 2.
Linthal is the last real village at the head of the Linth valley in canton Glarus, a long way into the mountains and a place that the modern world mostly passes by. About a thousand people live here, among steep meadows, old wooden houses and the dark shapes of textile mills from the days when cotton printing ruled the valley. Above the village rises the Tödi, the highest peak of the Glarus Alps, at over 3,600 metres, with ice on its flanks and a long history of mountaineering. From the valley floor, in the right light, the glaciers look like they are poured down the rock.
Read the complete Linthal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Klausen Pass point 2 comes up 13 km in. Next is Klausen Pass point 3.
27 km in you reach Klausen Pass point 3. Next is Klausen Pass point 4.
Linthal is the last real village at the head of the Linth valley in canton Glarus, a long way into the mountains and a place that the modern world mostly passes by. About a thousand people live here, among steep meadows, old wooden houses and the dark shapes of textile mills from the days when cotton printing ruled the valley. Above the village rises the Tödi, the highest peak of the Glarus Alps, at over 3,600 metres, with ice on its flanks and a long history of mountaineering. From the valley floor, in the right light, the glaciers look like they are poured down the rock.
Read the complete Linthal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Klausen Pass point 4, late in the day.