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Mon Aug 06, 2018 7:47 pm
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With less than four weeks to before my wife and I depart on our first European tour (14 days), I would like so recommendations for alpine passes to ride as my wife happened to see the list I was compiling and one road looks very much like the next for her so I would like to know based on your own experiences which are the passes you liked, then I will pick some out to try, I don't necessarily want the highest or longest something with a beautiful vista would also be good to try. |
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The Alps go from France on the west to Slovenia in the east. |
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Which parts of the Alps you plan to visit, quite a difference and distance between the French and Austrian parts... |
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Thanks for the suggestions so far. Nothing is written in stone, our itinerary is very fluid and is dependant on weather and how much we want to stay at each place but I think we will be more east in the Austrian Alps and Italian Dolomites but equally we could head east towards Switzerland, thats why I wanted to know if you could only explore say three passes which would you recommend. |
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Zitat von firebird1 im Beitrag #4 None of the passes are very long - you can base yourself in Meiringen and do a circular route that includes 7 passes in a day so distilling such a massive area to 3 passes is impossible. For me anyway as I have been visiting the Alps since 1995. You can easily spend 2 weeks in Austria and not cover every pass. Sometimes, roads that aren't part of an iconic pass turn out to be some of the best, either because the terrain makes a fun ride or you just stumble on a stunning view, eat a fabulous meal, see some marmosets etc. An example would be just dropping onto the Bschlaber Landesstrasse as we wanted to avoid the Fernpass. The latter is a main route from Bavaria into Austria and very busy with trucks. The Landesstrasse was suggested by a hotelier and is not featured in many ride guides. It's now the route I would use as I hate the Fernpass. In Austria, the iconic passes are the Grossglockner, Timmelsjoch and Silvretta but you need good weather as they are all over 2000m. Other passes worth visiting are the Nockalmstrasse in Carinthia and the Gerlos pass with Krimml Falls. There are quite a few high roads in Austria that are dead ends at dams or glaciers. Some of these are toll roads, examples are the Maltatal and Kaunertal. Ask your hotel if they are part of the regional tourist card scheme - you'll get a discount on tolls and some may even be free with the tourist card. |
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Me and my wife found Canazei in the Dolomites to be a nice "base point" with some very nice day-trip routes to explore both east north west and south. A days ride to get to both Lake Garda and north to Austria and Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse. |
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