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Day 8 Time to go home
All in all it was a very enjoyable 8 Days. I am so grateful that I am able to do something like this. I met a number of interesting people and had long, sometimes philosophical, chats with them. Most were positive, but I spoke my mind to a couple. The places where I / we…
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Day 7 Törbel to Zermatt
The final stage. The day started with an easy wind down the road to Milbach. In contrast to the other days the climb from Milbach to Zermatt was a gentle climb of 645m over around 30km. Most of the ride was on cycling paths and mountain bike single trails. The single trails were very rocky…
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Day 6 Kandersteg to Törbel
I started the Day getting to the Starting point Kandersteg from my accommodation in Spiez. At Kandersteg I took a cable car up to Sunnbühl. It was going to be a very hot day again. The first cycling section was around the tree border height and above. The rock formations were very interesting you can…
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Day 5 Spiez to Kandersteg
Today was a tough one, the distance and ascent were not the problem but the heat I had an average temperature of 33 and a max of 42 and min of 28. None the less it was another excellent day starting at the large lake Thun and cycling up alongside rivers into the mountains. After…
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Day 4 Grindelwald to Spiez
Another spectacular day I started as early as possible because the weather was predicted to be warm. The first 3 hours was a climb of just over 1000m. The Eiger looked down on me the whole way. After a relaxed lunch at Klein-Scheidegg I had a long downhill ride to a pretty little town called…
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Day 3 Grindelwald no cycle day
Today Annemarie and I went up the Jungfraujoch. The weather was great. Jungfraujoch is 3460m high. We had fabulous views of the Eiger, Eiger glacier and Aletsch glacier. ps. The live tracking should work from tomorrow as I now have a Swiss sim.
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Day 2 Meiringen to Grindelwald
Today I decided to do more then just cycle. The cycling part was only 25 km and about 1500m ascent so I did 2 short 1 hour hikes. The first was in Meiringen to the Reichenbach falls. It is featured in the last Sherlock Holmes book. Sherlock is believed to have fallen down here. I…
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Day 1 Andermatt to Meiringen
I had a good night in the hostel. I was the only person in an 11 bed room. After an early breakfast I started on the descent down to Andermatt then to Göschenen it was mainly on broad paths and roads. At Göschenen the mountain bike route ran next to the train line and river…
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Day 0 home to Andermatt
The day started well the train arrived in Lengfeld on time. It was not long before the train had to be diverted and my comfortable 30 min transfer whittled down to 10 min. The rest of the train travel went perfectly to plan. I needed that after the stress this morning. The short ride from…
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Training is back on track
After a 1 week involuntary rest due to an leg infection I am back in the saddle.
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Things are coming together.
New tyres / chain and cassette (drive sprocket) are installed. Just need to do a longer test ride. The train ticket to Göschenen from Frankfurt is Booked for 4 July 2023.
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Dolomiti – Molveno to Riva del Garda Day 7
Today is 48 km with only 330 m altitude gain. i am looking forward to a more relaxing day today. The Adventure came to an end today 3 september 2021 at 12:23 I arrived at the northern tip of Lake Garda over the 7 Days I cycled 450 km with an elevation gain of 7860…
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Dolomiti – Eggen to Molveno Day 6
The last strenuous day 85 km and 1600 m. It is hard to relieve the second last day. However most of the mileage is along a river valley so not too strenuous. Today got off to a good start and with a combination of farm roads and main roads I had 500 m of altitude…
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Dolomiti – Völs to Eggen Day 5
Day 5 was a short 33 km but 1300 m altitude gain. Right from the start the first hour and a half was uphill. Regardless today was one of the most spectacular from a scenery perspective. There was one challenge my route was blocked by a boom saying no entry by order of the government.…
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Dolomiti – Brixen to Völs Day 4
In South Tyrol it is very confusing the names are in German and Italian. The big problem is sometimes the road signs use the German names, sometimes Italian and sometimes both. Today starts in Brixen (Bressasone) and ends in Völs (Fié Allo Sciliar). It is about 60 km with about 1500 m altitude gain. My…
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Dolomiti – Dominikushütte to Brixen Day 3
The standard route is quite easy 75 km but only about 700 m altitude gain. Snow is predicted on the passes tomorrow but if it is not too bad I will consider adding a variant. The only problem the variants are quite tough. The day started off good it was dry for about 30 minutes.…
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Dolomiti – Stumm to Dominikushütte Day 2
Today is a bit intimidating, while it is only 40 km it is a1300 m climb with very few flat sections. Some of my things are still moist from yesterday. The weather for today looks promising, according to the weather it should be dry around 10 degrees. The day went quite well dry and not…
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Dolomiti – Tegernsee to Stumm Day 1
What a day! I woke up to streaming rain and until lunch it pretty much stayed that way. The good thing there was a lot of Forest along the Route. I did not take many photos but a lot of videos. It was a tough day with the weather but the landscape was spectacular especially…
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Dolomiti – Lengfeld to Tegernsee Day 0
It all started vey early this morning a short 1 hour trip to Frankfurt After a useful 40 minute wait for my train to Munich boarding went well and found a seat. About 100 metres outside Frankfurt the train stopped and the driver said we had been routed incorrectly. So we had a detour via…