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 Waldkirchen am Wesen it runs 262 km to Waldkirchen am Wesen; allow about 4 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Enns - Gräberstraße, Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben and back through Enns - Gräberstraße. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Danube here performs one of its most famous tricks. Forced by hard granite, the river makes two tight hairpin turns, the Schlögener Schlinge, doubling back on itself in a loop so neat it looks drawn with a compass. From the viewpoint on the wooded slope above, a short walk from the road, you look down on the river curling around a forested spur, and it is one of the classic images of Upper Austria.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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Schlögen - Kastell is where the day begins. Next is Enns - Gräberstraße.
Enns claims to be the oldest town in Austria, on the strength of a charter granted in 1212, but its roots go much deeper. Just outside the modern town lay Lauriacum, a Roman legionary fortress that housed the Second Italian Legion and grew into one of the most important places on the Danube frontier, with a civilian town, temples and, as the Gräberstraße name suggests, roads lined with cemeteries. The Romans buried their dead along the roads outside settlements, and excavations here have found hundreds of graves, stones and offerings. The site is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Enns - Gräberstraße write-up.
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Enns - Gräberstraße comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben.
Where the Pyhrn pass road drops from the Totes Gebirge toward the Enns and the Steyr valleys, Austria keeps one of its most important pieces of old forest. Kalkalpen National Park covers a large area of limestone mountains, gorges and woodland in Upper Austria, and its beech forests are among the last in Europe where trees have been left to grow, fall and rot undisturbed. They are part of a UNESCO listing called the Ancient Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a strange name for what is, in the end, a green cathedral of grey trunks and soft, filtered light.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben write-up.
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about 130 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben. Next is back through Enns - Gräberstraße.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Enns - Gräberstraße write-up.
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back through Enns - Gräberstraße, late in the day. Next is Schlögen - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Schlögen - Kastell. That is the ride.
Schlögen - Kastell → Enns - Gräberstraße is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Enns - Gräberstraße → Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben → back through Enns - Gräberstraße is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Enns - Gräberstraße → Schlögen - Kastell is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.