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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 197 km round trip from Windischgarsten - roughly 4 h 05 in the saddle. The stops in between: Kalkalpen - Urlach, Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben and back through Kalkalpen - Urlach. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
This part of the ride is 45 km of Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Kalkalpen - Urlach.
The Kalkalpen National Park is the largest forest wilderness in Austria, and the Hintergebirge is one of its quiet corners, a limestone mountain range in Upper Austria with steep wooded slopes, deep valleys and very few roads. It is a landscape of beech, spruce and fir, with some of the oldest unmanaged beech forest in the Alps, so valuable that it is included in the UNESCO listing of ancient beech forests of Europe. Walking in it feels like walking in the Europe before the roads.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg 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 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
Wilder Graben translates as the wild ravine, and the name fits the country south of the Enns valley in Upper Austria, where the Kalkalpen National Park protects a great tangle of limestone mountains, gorges and forest. This is the Reichraminger Hintergebirge, a maze of steep valleys with clear green streams at the bottom and almost no settlements at all. It is one of the largest forested areas in Austria, and parts of its old beech woods belong to the World Heritage site of ancient beech forests across Europe.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben write-up.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben. 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 Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg. That is the ride.
Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Kalkalpen - Urlach is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Urlach → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → back through Kalkalpen - Urlach is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalkalpen - Urlach → Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.