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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259 km from Reinach to Reinach, about 4 h 15 of riding. It goes by way of Hurden Seefeld, Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona and back through Hurden Seefeld. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
59 km on Pragel and Ibergeregg Loop.
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Five thousand years ago, people were building houses on stilts at the edge of lakes across the Alps, and then the lakes rose, buried the houses and kept them almost perfectly in the mud. The remains of these pile dwellings, found in the nineteenth century when a drought lowered the water, include posts, tools, textiles, food and even bread, and they gave archaeologists an extraordinary view of Stone Age and Bronze Age life. A hundred and eleven of the sites, in six countries, were listed by UNESCO in 2011, and the Swiss share is the largest.
Read the complete Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps write-up.
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Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps is where the day begins. Next is Hurden Seefeld.
Lake Zurich has a narrow waist, and at the waist stands a long causeway called the Seedamm. It links Rapperswil on the north shore with the Pfaffikon side on the south, and the peninsula of Hurden sits at its northern end. The upper lake, the Obersee, lies to the east, a quieter, shallower basin with reed beds, while the main lake stretches away to the west. Behind it all, the Glarus Alps and the Churfirsten rise to the horizon on a clear day.
Read the complete Hurden Seefeld write-up.
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Hurden Seefeld comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona.
Twice a year, in spring and autumn, the sun shines through a hole in a mountain ridge and lights up the church tower of Elm, a village in the Sernf valley of canton Glarus. The hole is the Martinsloch, a natural window in the Tschingelhörner, and it sits right on one of the most famous geological features in the world: a sharp line along the cliffs, clearly visible from the valley, where older rock lies on top of much younger rock. This is the Glarus thrust, and it helped geologists understand how mountains are built by the stacking of enormous slabs of the earth's crust. The Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona was listed by UNESCO in 2008.
Read the complete Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona write-up.
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about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona. Next is back through Hurden Seefeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurden Seefeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hurden Seefeld, late in the day. Next is Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. That is the ride.
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps → Hurden Seefeld is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurden Seefeld → Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona → back through Hurden Seefeld is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurden Seefeld → Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.