Biking through the Alps 5: Kastelruth-Pens (28.08.1998)

© Helwig Hauser

Note that this track has been created from memory, i.e., it was not recorded automatically.

Trip Summary

Day 5 of this multi-day bike-trip through the Alps in Südtirol should bring us first to Bozen and then, from there, northwards into the vicinity of the Penserjoch, another big goal on this trip. Cycling mostly downwards, we rapidly approached Bozen from Kastelruth and found ourselves as low as 275mosl there! :-) Clearly, we had no plans to stay in the low-lands for long, so we continued towards the north after a short break. Due to a little mishap, reading the map, we first took a road, however, which did not really bring us into the right valley! In fact, we really had to get down (almost all the way), again, before we could change to the right route, "dropping" about one hour for this detour. Then, however, everything was clear and we started a long ascent (not so very steep, but about 33km of more or less continuous ascent!). A little north of Sarnthein, we took the road to the left, into the Talfer-valley. Eventually, on this day, we arrived near Pens (at about 1425mosl and after about 8 hours of cycling). Having arrived close to the Penserjoch already at the end of day 5 of this bike-trip, we understood that we had been cycling faster than our original plan. Since it clearly was tempting to include one day of not biking in this wonderful mountain landscape, we decided to stay there for two nights.

Tour Info

More details about the entire bike-trip are available via a separate web page.

Useful Resources

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.