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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290 km from Lorch to Lorch, about 4 h 38 of riding. On the way it passes Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura, Schreckensee and back through Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 79 km of Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura → Schreckensee.
Lorch is where two Roman frontiers shook hands. The Upper Germanic Limes, a line of wooden palisade and watchtowers running down from the Rhine, met the Raetian Limes, a stone wall stretching east towards the Danube, in the hills near this small town in the Rems valley. The watchtower numbers jump here from series 9, the end of the Upper Germanic stretch, to 12, the start of the Raetian, and the whole system is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is where the day begins. Next is Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura.
Forty thousand years ago, someone sitting in a cave above the Ach valley carved a tiny woman out of mammoth ivory, and someone else made a flute from the wing bone of a griffon vulture. Both were found in the Hohle Fels near Schelklingen, a few kilometres from where you are standing, and they rank among the oldest figurative art and musical instruments ever found. The caves of the Ach and Lone valleys were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2017 as the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura, and they changed how archaeologists think about the first modern humans in Europe.
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Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Schreckensee.
The Schreckensee, the lake of terror, is a disappointingly peaceful place for such a dramatic name. It is a small kettle lake in the moraine country of Upper Swabia, between Ravensburg and Aulendorf, left behind when a block of glacial ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age. Its shores, now partly bog and reed bed, hide the remains of prehistoric settlements, and it is one of the German sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As at most of these sites, nothing is visible on the surface; the timbers and household waste lie preserved underwater and in the peat, waiting for future archaeologists.
Read the complete Schreckensee write-up.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Schreckensee. Next is back through Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura write-up.
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back through Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo → Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura → Schreckensee is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Schreckensee → back through Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura → Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.