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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336 km from Salzweg to Salzweg, about 5 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Schlögen - Vicus, Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, Albing - Legionslager and Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben. 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. 43 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 Schlögen - Vicus.
The Danube does something remarkable at Schlögen. Forced by hard granite, the river makes a tight double hairpin, the Schlögener Schlinge, turning back on itself twice in a deep, wooded valley in Upper Austria, and the view of it from above is one of the most famous in the country. A short walk from the river up through the forest leads to the Schlögener Blick viewpoint, where you can see the river coiling below like a green-brown snake between steep slopes.
Read the complete Schlögen - Vicus write-up.
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Schlögen - Vicus comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. Next is Albing - Legionslager.
There is almost nothing to see at Albing, and that is exactly what makes it a good story. Under these fields near the confluence of the Enns and the Danube lay one of the largest Roman military bases ever built in what is now Austria, a full legionary fortress raised in the later second century, around the time of the Marcomannic Wars, when Rome was fighting hard to hold the Danube against peoples from the north. It was planned on a grand scale and then, it seems, given up very soon after, probably because the site was too exposed to floods. The legion moved a few kilometres south to Lauriacum, the camp at today's Enns.
Read the complete Albing - Legionslager write-up.
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Albing - Legionslager, about halfway. 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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Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben sits at 179 km, about halfway. Next is back through Albing - Legionslager.
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Read the complete Albing - Legionslager write-up.
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back through Albing - Legionslager comes up about 231 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
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Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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about 266 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. Next is back through Schlögen - Vicus.
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Read the complete Schlögen - Vicus write-up.
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back through Schlögen - Vicus, late in the day. Next is Passau Haibach - Burgus.
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Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
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The route ends here after 336 km.
Passau Haibach - Burgus → Schlögen - Vicus is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schlögen - Vicus → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → Albing - Legionslager is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albing - Legionslager → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → back through Albing - Legionslager is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Albing - Legionslager → back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → back through Schlögen - Vicus is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Schlögen - Vicus → Passau Haibach - Burgus is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.