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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
343 km from Innerschwand to Innerschwand, about 5 h 29 of riding. It goes by way of Kalkalpen - Urlach, Enns - Gräberstraße and back through Kalkalpen - Urlach. 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.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 79 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
At the southeastern tip of the Mondsee, where the lake narrows toward the Attersee and the cliffs of the Drachenwand and the Schafberg crowd in on both sides, lies a hamlet with the shortest name you will find on any map: See. Just offshore, in the shallow water where the lake drains, divers found the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement, and the finds were so characteristic that archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after the lake: the Mondsee culture, known for its decorated pottery and early copper working. The site is part of the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and as with most of them, there is nothing to see except the water, which is part of the point.
Read the complete See write-up.
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See is where the day begins. Next is Kalkalpen - Urlach.
Somewhere in these forests a beech tree has been standing since before anyone thought to draw a border here, and the Kalkalpen National Park exists largely to keep it that way. This is the largest protected forest area in Austria, spread across the limestone ranges of the Sengsengebirge and the Reichraminger Hintergebirge in Upper Austria, and parts of it belong to the UNESCO listing of ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe. Urlach lies on the edge of that wild country, in the folds above the Steyr valley between Molln and Windischgarsten.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Urlach write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Urlach comes up about 112 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Enns - Gräberstraße. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Urlach.
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Read the complete Kalkalpen - Urlach write-up.
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back through Kalkalpen - Urlach, late in the day. Next is See.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete See write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at See. That is the ride.
See → Kalkalpen - Urlach is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Urlach → Enns - Gräberstraße is 60 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Enns - Gräberstraße → back through Kalkalpen - Urlach is 60 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kalkalpen - Urlach → See is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.