CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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327 km from Boniswil to Boniswil, about 5 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Sumpf, Hurden Rosshorn, Oterswil / Insel Eielen and Feldbach. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Riesi is a stretch of shoreline at the northern end of the Hallwilersee, a long, narrow lake in the Aargau Seetal, between the villages of Seengen and Boniswil. It is a peaceful place of reeds, meadows and walking paths, and below the water and in the marshy ground lie the remains of prehistoric pile-dwelling settlements, part of the World Heritage list of such sites around the Alps.
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Riesi is where the day begins. Next is Sumpf.
Zug-Sumpf was a Bronze Age village on the northern shore of Lake Zug, near the mouth of the river Lorze between Cham and Steinhausen, and the waterlogged ground preserved wooden floors, posts and objects for over three thousand years. Excavations in the twentieth century recovered pottery, bronze tools and even remains of food, and the site sits on the World Heritage list as part of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Some of the finds are displayed in the museum of prehistory in Zug. Today the site lies under modern buildings and meadows, and only the name, which means swamp, recalls its watery origin.
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Sumpf comes up 35 km in. Next is Hurden Rosshorn.
Where Lake Zurich narrows to a waist between Rapperswil and Hurden, a low peninsula runs out from the Schwyz shore, and at its tip, the Rosshorn, the remains of prehistoric lakeside villages lie beneath the shallow water. People lived here in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, in houses built on wooden piles, and they also built some of the earliest known bridges across the narrows. The site is one of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that UNESCO listed in 2011, a group of sites that has given archaeologists a remarkably detailed view of everyday life thousands of years ago, preserved in the mud of lakes and moors.
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69 km in you reach Hurden Rosshorn. Next is Oterswil / Insel Eielen.
Lake Zug is the quiet one among the central Swiss lakes, long and slender, with the Rigi rising steeply from its southern end and gentle farmland and orchards rolling down to its northern shores. Around its edges, as around many Alpine lakes, people built villages on the shore in prehistoric times, and the remains of these settlements at places like Oterswil and the little island of Eielen are among the sites of the transnational pile dwelling listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2011. Under water and mud, wooden piles, pottery and tools have survived for thousands of years.
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Oterswil / Insel Eielen, about halfway. Next is Feldbach.
Feldbach is a small village on the northern shore of Lake Zurich, and a very Swiss kind of calm hangs over it. It belongs to the municipality of Hombrechtikon and lies on the sunny stretch locals call the Gold Coast, where steep vineyards and orchards slope down to the water and the houses cost more than most people care to say aloud. The village has a lakeside park with big old trees, a small harbour and a place to swim in summer, and across the water the opposite shore climbs toward the Albis hills.
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Feldbach sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen.
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back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen comes up 173 km in. Next is back through Hurden Rosshorn.
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Read the complete Hurden Rosshorn write-up.
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207 km in you reach back through Hurden Rosshorn. Next is back through Sumpf.
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Read the complete Sumpf write-up.
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back through Sumpf, late in the day. Next is Riesi.
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Read the complete Riesi write-up.
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The route ends here after 327 km.
Riesi → Sumpf is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sumpf → Hurden Rosshorn is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurden Rosshorn → Oterswil / Insel Eielen is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oterswil / Insel Eielen → Feldbach is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Feldbach → back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen → back through Hurden Rosshorn is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurden Rosshorn → back through Sumpf is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sumpf → Riesi is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.