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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213 km from Wädenswil to Wädenswil, about 4 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes Seematte, Egolzwil 3, Burgäschisee Ost and back through Egolzwil 3. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
32 km on Egolzwil 3 → Burgäschisee Ost.
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.
Read the complete Vorder Au write-up.
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Vorder Au is where the day begins. Next is Seematte.
Lake Baldegg lies in the Seetal, the lake valley north of Lucerne, a gentle, green landscape of meadows, orchards and woods, with the lake in the middle and the hills rising on either side. Seematte, on the shore near Hitzkirch, is the site of prehistoric lakeside villages, built on piles over the water's edge thousands of years ago, and it was inscribed in the same 2011 listing that covers lakeside villages from France to Slovenia. As with most such sites, there is nothing to see above ground, but the setting is lovely, and standing on the reedy shore you can imagine the wooden houses and dugout canoes.
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Seematte comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Egolzwil 3.
Archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after Egolzwil, a small village in the canton of Lucerne, because the settlements found in the Wauwiler Moos, a former lake turned into peat bog, revealed a way of life older than anything else known in the region at the time. Egolzwil 3, one of these sites, was a village of farmers who lived on the shore of a small lake over six thousand years ago, and it counts as one component of UNESCO's inscription of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. The lake was drained in the nineteenth century to create farmland, and the remains were preserved in the wet peat.
Read the complete Egolzwil 3 write-up.
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about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Egolzwil 3. Next is Burgäschisee Ost.
Burgäschisee is a small, quiet lake on the border between the cantons of Bern and Solothurn, surrounded by reeds, woods and farmland. It would be easy to ride past without noticing, but it holds a secret: along its shores, archaeologists have found the remains of Neolithic villages built on piles, dating back more than five thousand years. The eastern shore site, Burgäschisee Ost, is one of the components of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps World Heritage site, listed by UNESCO in 2011. There is nothing much to see on the surface, as the remains lie underwater or in the soft ground, but the peaceful setting makes it easy to imagine the wooden houses, canoes and fishing nets of those early farmers.
Read the complete Burgäschisee Ost write-up.
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Burgäschisee Ost, about halfway. Next is back through Egolzwil 3.
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Read the complete Egolzwil 3 write-up.
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back through Egolzwil 3 sits at 135 km, about halfway. Next is back through Seematte.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Seematte write-up.
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back through Seematte comes up about 166 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vorder Au.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vorder Au write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Vorder Au closes the day.
Vorder Au → Seematte is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Seematte → Egolzwil 3 is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Egolzwil 3 → Burgäschisee Ost is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burgäschisee Ost → back through Egolzwil 3 is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Egolzwil 3 → back through Seematte is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Seematte → Vorder Au is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.