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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303 km from Passau to Passau, about 4 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben and back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 85 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Passau sits at the point where three rivers meet, in the far east of Bavaria, close to the Austrian border: the Danube, which is a cold greenish-blue here, the Inn, which arrives milky green from the Alps, and the Ilz, a small, dark river that stains the water black from the peat of the Bavarian Forest. On a still day you can see all three colours running side by side at the tip of the old town, which is why people call it the City of Three Rivers, and sometimes the Bavarian Venice.
Read the complete Passau Altstadt - Kastell write-up.
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Passau Altstadt - Kastell is where the day begins. Next is Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
Just west of Linz, the Danube narrows and the steep, wooded slopes of the Kürnberger Wald rise from its southern bank. In the Roman period this river was the frontier of the empire, and the soldiers who guarded it built a chain of forts and watchtowers along the bank to watch for raiders crossing from the north. The Hirschleitengraben watchtower is one of these, a small Roman tower in a side ravine of the forest, part of the Danube Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2021 as one of the great frontiers of the Roman Empire. Its remains are modest, but the position, looking over the river toward Puchenau and the hills of the Mühlviertel, makes the purpose clear.
Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm comes up about 76 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 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben. Next is back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, late in the day. Next is Passau Altstadt - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Passau Altstadt - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Passau Altstadt - Kastell. That is the ride.
Passau Altstadt - Kastell → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → Passau Altstadt - Kastell is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.