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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344 km from Gosau to Gosau, about 6 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Kalkalpen - Urlach, Enns - Gräberstraße and back through Kalkalpen - Urlach. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This part of the ride is 107 km of Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → Kalkalpen - Urlach.
Salt made all of this. Long before anyone thought of postcards, people were tunnelling into the mountain above Hallstatt for it, and finds from the prehistoric mine and its cemetery were so rich that archaeologists named a whole phase of the European Iron Age, the Hallstatt culture, after a village you can walk across in ten minutes. The Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut cultural landscape, inscribed in 1997, takes in the lake, the village, the salt mountain, the limestone massif of the Dachstein and the valleys around Gosau, Bad Goisern and Bad Aussee.
Read the complete Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur write-up.
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Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is where the day begins. Next is Kalkalpen - Urlach.
Somewhere in these forests a beech tree has been standing since before anyone thought to draw a border here, and the Kalkalpen National Park exists largely to keep it that way. This is the largest protected forest area in Austria, spread across the limestone ranges of the Sengsengebirge and the Reichraminger Hintergebirge in Upper Austria, and parts of it belong to the UNESCO listing of ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe. Urlach lies on the edge of that wild country, in the folds above the Steyr valley between Molln and Windischgarsten.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Urlach write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Urlach comes up about 107 km into the recorded legs. Next is Enns - Gräberstraße.
Enns claims to be the oldest town in Austria, on the strength of a charter granted in 1212, but its roots go much deeper. Just outside the modern town lay Lauriacum, a Roman legionary fortress that housed the Second Italian Legion and grew into one of the most important places on the Danube frontier, with a civilian town, temples and, as the Gräberstraße name suggests, roads lined with cemeteries. The Romans buried their dead along the roads outside settlements, and excavations here have found hundreds of graves, stones and offerings. The site is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Enns - Gräberstraße write-up.
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about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Enns - Gräberstraße. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Urlach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Urlach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kalkalpen - Urlach, late in the day. Next is Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur. That is the ride.
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → Kalkalpen - Urlach is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Urlach → Enns - Gräberstraße is 60 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Enns - Gräberstraße → back through Kalkalpen - Urlach is 60 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalkalpen - Urlach → Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.