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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291 km from Attersee to Attersee, about 4 h 57 of riding. On the way it passes Kalkalpen - Urlach, Enns - Gräberstraße and back through Kalkalpen - Urlach. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This part of the ride is 85 km of Litzlberg Süd → Kalkalpen - Urlach.
Attersee is the largest lake lying entirely within Austria, and the water is so clear and clean that boats seem to hang over their own shadows. It lies in the Salzkammergut, the lake district east of Salzburg, ringed by forested hills and with the limestone wall of the Hollengebirge at its southern end. Litzlberg sits on the western shore, a short way from Seewalchen, where the lake narrows and the shoreline is a mix of meadows, reed beds and villas with boathouses. It is a place that people have lived since the Stone Age, and the lake bed here holds the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings that are part of the UNESCO listing for such sites around the Alps.
Read the complete Litzlberg Süd write-up.
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Litzlberg Süd 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 85 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 145 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 Litzlberg Süd.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Litzlberg Süd write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Litzlberg Süd. That is the ride.
Litzlberg Süd → Kalkalpen - Urlach is 85 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 → Litzlberg Süd is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.