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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A 252 km round trip from Flims - roughly 3 h 56 in the saddle. On the way it passes Technikum, Storen-Wildsberg, Egelsee and back through Storen-Wildsberg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
For about 61 km this is Pragel and Ibergeregg Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
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The ride follows Storen-Wildsberg → Egelsee for 41 km.
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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Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona is where the day begins. Next is Technikum.
Students at the technical university in Rapperswil study engineering on a lakeside campus, and beneath the shoreline in front of their buildings lie the remains of villages that people built on piles thousands of years ago. The site, named after the old Technikum, as the college was long known, is one of the prehistoric pile dwelling sites around Lake Zurich included in the UNESCO listing of 2011. Nothing is visible, but the idea that this shore has been home to people for so long gives a different perspective to a stroll along the promenade.
Read the complete Technikum write-up.
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Technikum comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Storen-Wildsberg.
The Greifensee lies just east of Zurich, a shallow, quiet lake of about six kilometres in length, framed by reeds, meadows and the gentle hills of the Zurich Oberland. Its shores are largely protected, and there is no road running right along the water, which keeps it remarkably calm for a lake so close to Switzerland's biggest city. At Storen-Wildsberg near the village of Greifensee, the remains of a prehistoric settlement lie under the water and in the shoreline sediments, one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As with all of them, it is the ground itself that is protected; there is nothing to see except the reeds and the water.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Storen-Wildsberg. Next is Egelsee.
There is almost nothing to see at the Egelsee, and that is part of its charm. It is a small, reed-fringed bog lake in the rolling Thurgau countryside between Gachnang and Frauenfeld, and under its peat and mud lie the remains of a Neolithic lakeside settlement, timber piles and floor layers preserved for thousands of years because air never reached them. It is one of the many sites that make up the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps on the UNESCO list, and unlike the reconstructed villages you find elsewhere, this one has been left in the ground on purpose. Archaeologists consider the soggy earth the best museum there is.
Read the complete Egelsee write-up.
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Egelsee, about halfway. Next is back through Storen-Wildsberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Storen-Wildsberg sits at 165 km, about halfway. Next is back through Technikum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Technikum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Technikum comes up about 191 km into the recorded legs. Next is Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona closes the day.
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona → Technikum is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Technikum → Storen-Wildsberg is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Storen-Wildsberg → Egelsee is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Egelsee → back through Storen-Wildsberg is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Storen-Wildsberg → back through Technikum is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Technikum → Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.