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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356 km from Flims to Flims, about 5 h 38 of riding. It goes by way of Technikum, Sumpf, Hurden Rosshorn and Oterswil / Insel Eielen. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
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 Sumpf.
Zug-Sumpf was a Bronze Age village on the northern shore of Lake Zug, near the mouth of the river Lorze between Cham and Steinhausen, and the waterlogged ground preserved wooden floors, posts and objects for over three thousand years. Excavations in the twentieth century recovered pottery, bronze tools and even remains of food, and the site sits on the World Heritage list as part of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Some of the finds are displayed in the museum of prehistory in Zug. Today the site lies under modern buildings and meadows, and only the name, which means swamp, recalls its watery origin.
Read the complete Sumpf write-up.
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about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach Sumpf. Next is Hurden Rosshorn.
Where Lake Zurich narrows to a waist between Rapperswil and Hurden, a low peninsula runs out from the Schwyz shore, and at its tip, the Rosshorn, the remains of prehistoric lakeside villages lie beneath the shallow water. People lived here in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, in houses built on wooden piles, and they also built some of the earliest known bridges across the narrows. The site is one of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that UNESCO listed in 2011, a group of sites that has given archaeologists a remarkably detailed view of everyday life thousands of years ago, preserved in the mud of lakes and moors.
Read the complete Hurden Rosshorn write-up.
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Hurden Rosshorn, about halfway. Next is Oterswil / Insel Eielen.
Lake Zug is the quiet one among the central Swiss lakes, long and slender, with the Rigi rising steeply from its southern end and gentle farmland and orchards rolling down to its northern shores. Around its edges, as around many Alpine lakes, people built villages on the shore in prehistoric times, and the remains of these settlements at places like Oterswil and the little island of Eielen are among the sites of the transnational pile dwelling listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2011. Under water and mud, wooden piles, pottery and tools have survived for thousands of years.
Read the complete Oterswil / Insel Eielen write-up.
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Oterswil / Insel Eielen sits at 167 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hurden Rosshorn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurden Rosshorn write-up.
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back through Hurden Rosshorn comes up about 220 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Sumpf.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sumpf write-up.
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about 259 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Sumpf. 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, 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 356 km.
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona → Technikum is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Technikum → Sumpf is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sumpf → Hurden Rosshorn is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurden Rosshorn → Oterswil / Insel Eielen is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oterswil / Insel Eielen → back through Hurden Rosshorn is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hurden Rosshorn → back through Sumpf is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sumpf → back through Technikum is 37 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.