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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592 km from Micheldorf in Oberösterreich to Micheldorf in Oberösterreich, about 11 h 18 of riding. On the way it passes Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben, Dürrenstein-Lassingtal, Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg and Wallsee - Kastell. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
52 km on Kalkalpen - Urlach → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
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.
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Kalkalpen - Urlach is where the day begins. 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.
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Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is a wilderness area in the Ybbstal Alps of Lower Austria, where the limestone mountains rise above deep valleys covered with forests of beech, spruce and fir. It includes the Rothwald, one of the largest remaining primeval forests in Central Europe, a forest that has never been logged, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Here trees grow, die and decay naturally, creating a rich habitat for insects, fungi, birds and mammals.
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about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. Next is Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg.
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.
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Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg, about halfway. Next is Wallsee - Kastell.
Wallsee is one of those Danube villages that people cycle through on the long riverside path without guessing how much history sits under their tyres. A castle rises on a rock above the river, and beneath and around the village lie the remains of a Roman fort that guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier. It is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021, which follows the river from Bavaria through Austria to Slovakia, a line of forts, watchtowers and towns that held the northern edge of the empire for centuries.
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Wallsee - Kastell sits at 200 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg.
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back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg comes up about 381 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
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about 450 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
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back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben, late in the day. Next is Kalkalpen - Urlach.
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The route ends here after 592 km.
Kalkalpen - Urlach → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Wallsee - Kastell is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Wallsee - Kastell → back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Kalkalpen - Urlach is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.