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 38 km one-way ride from near Stanzach, about 42 min of riding. On the way it passes Namlos and Berwang. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 10 km this is Hahntennjoch Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Stanzach is a small village in the Lechtal, the long valley of the Lech river in Tyrol, and the river is the making of it. The Lech here is still wild, with a broad bed of pale gravel, braided channels and shifting banks that change after every flood, and conservationists have protected it as part of the Tyrolean Lech Nature Park, because few Alpine rivers still run free in this way. Kingfishers, dippers and the rare little ringed plover nest on the gravel, and in spring the water is the colour of milky jade. Hikers on the Lechweg, a long-distance footpath, pass through the village.
Read the complete Stanzach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Stanzach is where the day begins. Next is Namlos.
Namlos is a village at the head of a long, quiet side valley in the Lechtal Alps of Tyrol, and the road that leads to it is the reason to come. It is one of the smallest places on the map, a handful of farms and houses at an altitude of more than a thousand metres, with steep forested slopes and limestone peaks around. There is no through traffic, because the valley ends in a cul-de-sac of mountains, apart from the road across to Berwang, which makes it a ride that few visitors know about.
Read the complete Namlos write-up.
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Namlos comes up about 10 km into the recorded legs. Next is Berwang.
Berwang sits on a high, sunny terrace above the Lech valley, at about 1,300 metres, a village of wooden chalets and green meadows, with the long ridge of the Lechtal Alps behind and the great bulk of the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, visible to the north-east. It is part of the Zugspitz Arena, a ski and hiking region that spans the border of Tyrol and Bavaria, and the village is a good deal busier than its neighbour Namlos, with hotels, a few shops and lifts.
Read the complete Berwang write-up.
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about 22 km into the recorded legs you reach Berwang. Next is Reutte.
Reutte lies in a broad basin where the Lech valley opens and the mountains step back, a town of under seven thousand in the Außerfern, the part of Tyrol that is cut off from the rest of the province by the Alps and is connected more easily with Bavaria than with Innsbruck. For centuries the town was a stop on the trade route between Italy and southern Germany, and it grew rich on the carriage trade and on the road that crossed the Fern Pass. Its long main street, Untermarkt, still has old merchants' houses with painted facades and ornate oriel windows, and the market feel remains.
Read the complete Reutte write-up.
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Reutte closes the day.
Stanzach → Namlos is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Namlos → Berwang is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berwang → Reutte is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.