CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 435 km round trip from Waldkirchen am Wesen - roughly 7 h 38 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, Albing - Legionslager, Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben and Dürrenstein-Lassingtal. 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.
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 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 48 km in. 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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96 km in you reach Albing - Legionslager. 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, about halfway. Next is Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is a wilderness area in the Ybbstal Alps of Lower Austria, where the limestone mountains rise above deep valleys covered with forests of beech, spruce and fir. It includes the Rothwald, one of the largest remaining primeval forests in Central Europe, a forest that has never been logged, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Here trees grow, die and decay naturally, creating a rich habitat for insects, fungi, birds and mammals.
Read the complete Dürrenstein-Lassingtal write-up.
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Dürrenstein-Lassingtal sits at 193 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
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Read the complete Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben write-up.
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back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben comes up 241 km in. Next is back through Albing - Legionslager.
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Read the complete Albing - Legionslager write-up.
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289 km in you reach back through Albing - Legionslager. Next is back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
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Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, late in the day. Next is Schlögen - Vicus.
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Read the complete Schlögen - Vicus write-up.
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The route ends here after 435 km.
Schlögen - Vicus → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → Albing - Legionslager is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albing - Legionslager → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → back through Albing - Legionslager is 61 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 → Schlögen - Vicus is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.