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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2,224 m, engineered rather than grown - long sweepers instead of hairpins. 52 km from Andermatt to Meiringen, about 1 h 10 of riding. The highest point is about 2,200 m. Susten 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 13 km this is Furka Pass, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
The church of Wassen stands on a terrace above the Reuss, and passengers on the old Gotthard railway see it three times as the line spirals through tunnels to gain height, a famous trick of nineteenth-century engineering that makes travellers think they are going in circles. This stop lies in that village, at the foot of the Susten pass, where the road leaves the Reuss valley and climbs west into the Meiental towards the Bernese Oberland.
Read the complete Near Andermatt write-up.
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Susten Pass point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Susten Pass point 2.
At 2,224 metres, the summit of the Susten Pass sits on the border between the cantons of Bern and Uri, under the glaciated peaks of the Sustenhorn and the Gwächtenhorn. Engelberg, the name on the label, lies on the other side of the Titlis massif, ten kilometres away as the crow flies but a long way round by road, so think of this as the pass itself, the highest point of one of the most beautiful mountain roads in the Alps.
Read the complete Near Engelberg write-up.
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Susten Pass point 2 comes up 10 km in. Next is Susten Pass point 3.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Near Engelberg write-up.
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19 km in you reach Susten Pass point 3. Next is Susten Pass point 4.
Above Meiringen the Hasli valley opens out, and this spot lies on the slopes between the town and the Brünig, the low pass that carries the road over to Lungern and Obwalden. Below, the Aare runs flat and straight across the valley floor toward Lake Brienz, and above rise the steep walls of the Bernese Oberland, with the Wetterhorn and Engelhörner peering over the ridge to the south. It is a place where several of the great Swiss passes come together.
Read the complete Near Meiringen write-up.
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Susten Pass point 4, late in the day.