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Biking across the Alps 2.4: Taxenbach-Salzburg

Date:
15.08.1997
Characteristic:
Bike trip
Duration:
9:00h
Distance:
97.3km

The fourth and last day of this multi-day bike trip across the Alps should bring us to Salzburg, where we had planned to take the train back to Wien. All in all, this was then more like a transport stretch at the end of this trip, even though we came by majestic mountain scenes also on this day (seen from the bottom of the valley, though). Following the Salzach, basically, we first headed eastwards, before turning more and more northwards, into the direction of Salzburg. After about 100km of cycling (and about 8 hours), we arrived in Salzburg, concluding this bike-trip across the Alps in a very satisfied mood! More details about the entire bike-trip are available via a separate web page . Route details about four longer bike rides in/near the Alps are summarized on a separate web page . See also the related FB-page Hiking around Bergen, Norway .

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Biking across the Alps 2.3: Döllach-Taxenbach

Date:
14.08.1997
Characteristic:
Bike trip
Duration:
11:30h
Distance:
68.3km

The third day of this multi-day bike trip across the Alps should be our big day, cycling the Glockner Hochalpenstrasse up to about 2500mosl! We started from Döllach and decided to take the Apriacher Höhenstrasse (on the eastern side of the valley and quite high up as compared to the lowest points in the valley, even though this meant to cut short a stretch through Heiligenblut, almost a must-see on this trip. Cycling high above the deep Möll-valley, however, provided us with great views already early in the morning and we enjoyed it already then very much! :-) After about 12km of cycling (and about +500hm up), we connected back to the main street, there coming up from Heiligenblut lying further west and down in the valley. With this, we were on this magnificent mountain road, the Glockner >>>

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Biking across the Alps 2.2: Hermagor-Döllach

Date:
13.08.1997
Characteristic:
Bike trip
Duration:
10:00h
Distance:
94.3km

The second day of this multi-day bike trip across the Alps brought us close to the big goal, the Glockner Hochalpenstrasse. First, however, we continued through the Gail-valley for about 40km until we came to Kötschach-Mauthen, where the valley stops to be wide and comparably flat. This was the point, where we wanted to cross over to the Drau-valley (in the north of the Gail-valley). Thus, we traversed the Gailbergsattel, i.e., the first major pass on this trip (almost 1000mosl). Once in the Drau-valley, we continued in western (northwestern) direction, getting closer to Lienz quickly. Before actually getting to Lienz, however, we made a turn to the north, leaving the Drau-valley again and crossing over the second major pass on this day, i.e., Iselsberg (about 1200mosl), to the Möll-valley. >>>

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Biking across the Alps 2.1: Villach-Hermagor

Date:
12.08.1997
Characteristic:
Bike trip
Duration:
3:15h
Distance:
50.7km

The plan of this multi-day bike trip was to cross the Alps, once again, from the south to the north, passing over the Glockner Hochalpenstrasse, which brings travelers up to 2500mosl! To start, we took the train from Wien to Villach, where we got onto our bikes at about 4pm in the afternoon. As a consequence of the comparably late start into this day 1, we only made a relatively short stretch on this day (about 65km). Surrounding the Dobratsch near Villach in its east and south, we entered the Gail-valley, which we then cycled westwards into the direction of Hermagor. After a little more than 3 hours of cycling, and passing by Pressegger See close to the end, we arrived in Egg, not far from Hermagor, where we stopped for the night. More details about the entire bike-trip are available via >>>

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