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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259 km from Reinach to Reinach, about 4 h 15 of riding. On the way it passes Hurden Seefeld, Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona and back through Hurden Seefeld. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 59 km of Pragel and Ibergeregg Loop.
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Lake Hallwil is a long, narrow lake in the Aargau, lying north to south between low hills, and it is the quiet cousin of the bigger Swiss lakes. At its northern end stands a moated castle, Schloss Hallwyl, a grey medieval fortress surrounded by water that looks as if it belongs on a stage, and which holds a museum of its centuries of family life. The lake's shore is a mix of reed beds, meadows and villages, and the water is clean enough for swimming in summer. Rowing boats and small sailboats drift across it on warm afternoons.
Read the complete Ägelmoos write-up.
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Ägelmoos is where the day begins. Next is Hurden Seefeld.
Lake Zurich has a narrow waist, and at the waist stands a long causeway called the Seedamm. It links Rapperswil on the north shore with the Pfaffikon side on the south, and the peninsula of Hurden sits at its northern end. The upper lake, the Obersee, lies to the east, a quieter, shallower basin with reed beds, while the main lake stretches away to the west. Behind it all, the Glarus Alps and the Churfirsten rise to the horizon on a clear day.
Read the complete Hurden Seefeld write-up.
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Hurden Seefeld comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona.
Twice a year, in spring and autumn, the sun shines through a hole in a mountain ridge and lights up the church tower of Elm, a village in the Sernf valley of canton Glarus. The hole is the Martinsloch, a natural window in the Tschingelhörner, and it sits right on one of the most famous geological features in the world: a sharp line along the cliffs, clearly visible from the valley, where older rock lies on top of much younger rock. This is the Glarus thrust, and it helped geologists understand how mountains are built by the stacking of enormous slabs of the earth's crust. The Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona was listed by UNESCO in 2008.
Read the complete Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona write-up.
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about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona. Next is back through Hurden Seefeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurden Seefeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hurden Seefeld, late in the day. Next is Ägelmoos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ägelmoos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ägelmoos. That is the ride.
Ägelmoos → Hurden Seefeld is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurden Seefeld → Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona → back through Hurden Seefeld is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurden Seefeld → Ägelmoos is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.