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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From Salzweg it runs 293 km to Salzweg; allow about 4 h 34 of riding. The stops in between: 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. 83 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Passau sits where three rivers meet, the Danube, the Inn and the Ilz, and from the high point of the Oberhaus fortress you can see their colours run side by side before mixing: green from the Inn, blue-grey from the Danube, and dark from the Ilz, which flows down from the Bavarian Forest stained by peat. The Romans knew this spot well. They had a fort here called Batavis, named after a unit of Batavian soldiers from the Rhine delta, and another at Boiotro across the Inn, and along the Danube downstream they built small fortified towers called burgi to watch the river and signal to each other. One of these late Roman burgi stood near Haibach, and its remains are part of the Danube Limes, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
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Passau Haibach - Burgus 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 71 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 146 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 Haibach - Burgus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Passau Haibach - Burgus. That is the ride.
Passau Haibach - Burgus → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 71 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 Haibach - Burgus is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.