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Györgyi Gábor: From the snowy mountains to the sandy beach (2000)
After getting experiences on five cycletours in Slovakia and two in Austria and Slovenia in july 2000 I was ready to bike on my most serious tour in my life: to push the pedals from my favourite area, the Dolomites - which is said to be one of the world’s most beaufiful mountain-ranges – reaching the Adriatic sea to Nagykanizsa, a hungarian town next to the border. As in last year this year I also travelled to Cavalese, the place of our holiday with my parents, from where I set out the 1400km long – with a 3 day long detour – homeway after a week long training, warming up and programs together with my parents. In every case I wanted to visit the wonderful Lake Garda – which I only heard about – and Venice that I liked from the videos, but where I also hadn’t been before. During the week I spent in the Dolomites with my parents I made three beautiful cycletours and managed to cycle through some passes.

Biketour from the Dolomites to Hungary

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2004-09-13 12:38:20

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long. Riding on the outer edge - althouh there was a barrier - it wasn’t a good feeling to look at down into the deepness. At the end of my tour I managed to climb the pass a little bit tired in one and a half hour, and I reached the saddle in dusk. After a short rolling I arrived at home. (175 km + 3396 m heightdifference)

2nd training tour: I visited two not so high and not so known passes, but after them I could say, one of them, the Rolle pass would be one of my favourite. The 12 km long and 6,4% steep ascent to the Passo San Pellegrino started in Moena, after half an hour cyclingThe land gave my the mood of the slovakian Tatra because of the flowery fields and fir tree forests in the valley. The steepness was serious only in short sections. From the village, Falcade which is on the eastern and steeper side of the pass there was a very scenic view to the „columnrocks” of the more than 3000m high Cimon de Pala. The 33km long connecting road between Agordo and the foot of the next climb was going in a thin but deep valley. I enjoyed the stream and the nature between the steep rockwalls. Not only a passroad but a valley can be nice too. On the climb of the 1369m high Cereda-pass I could take pleasure in the picture of the mountains which character was other than the mountains before. These mountains were a little bit southern type for me. Pushing the pedals the deciduous forests were changed for fir tree forests. More and more dark clouds were arriving to and staying above the rocks of the Pale di San Martino. After rolling down from the pass to the 750m high situated Fiera di Primiero the 22 km long ascent of the 1970m high Rolle pass waited for me. In some sites (for example tour reports in the site, Trento Bike Pages or some sentences and photos of the site, Virtual Alps) I’d read that this climb would be not too steep, but continuous and monotonous. It was true on the halfway to San Martino di Castrozza, because ...