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 Flims it runs 263 km to Flims; allow about 4 h 57 of riding. On the way it passes Technikum, Vorder Au, Storen-Wildsberg and Feldbach. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 61 km this is Pragel and Ibergeregg Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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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.
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Technikum comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vorder Au.
The Au peninsula pokes out into Lake Zurich like a green thumb, and at its tip, Vorder Au, the shallow water hides traces of villages built on piles thousands of years ago. It is one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though as with most of them, the archaeology lies under the lake bed and is protected rather than displayed. What you see is a wooded little hill with a castle-like house, vineyards running down to the water, reed beds and a small harbour.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Vorder Au. 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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Storen-Wildsberg, 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.
Read the complete Feldbach write-up.
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Feldbach sits at 120 km, about halfway. Next is back through Storen-Wildsberg.
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Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
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back through Storen-Wildsberg comes up about 154 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Vorder Au.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vorder Au write-up.
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about 180 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Vorder Au. Next is back through Technikum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Technikum write-up.
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back through Technikum, late in the day. Next is Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona write-up.
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The route ends here after 263 km.
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona → Technikum is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Technikum → Vorder Au is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vorder Au → Storen-Wildsberg is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Storen-Wildsberg → Feldbach is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Feldbach → back through Storen-Wildsberg is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Storen-Wildsberg → back through Vorder Au is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vorder Au → back through Technikum is 22 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.