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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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1st training tour: After the gently sloping 43km in a nice and steep valley I had to go through a 11 km long 7% steep ascent up to the 2240m high Sellapass. The name of this pass can be usually heard in connection with the Giro d’Italia. From Canazei – where the steep climb starts – the road is one of the most beautiful passroads of the Dolomites. The ascent was going through a friendly forest, then through meadows with flowers next to high steep rockwalls. I met with a lot of bikers. The beauty of the land fascinated me: cycling with my on power and go up to the pass was much other than arrive there by a car. In the last 5-6 km I could read the names of the famous competitors of the Giro on tha asphalt: Pantani, Gotti, Tonkow. The picture of the 3181m high Sassolungo with its triple top was wonderful. Towards St Ullrich the road twisted in the side of the mountain, then in the valley I could roll down faster because of the little number of bends. On the sunny and wide pasture of the Seiser Alm I climbed up on 12-14% steep ascent onto the 1437m high Pinei pass. From Kastelruth I tried to ascend up on a 8%, but sometimes 10% steep road to the plateau of the Seiser Alm, which steepness I was informed from the diagram of the website www.salite.ch It seemed to be difficult. It took me one hour to climb up to the 1844m high Seeiser Alm going through a pleasant fir tree forest for a long. I was tired after the climb so I needed some energy from foods. After 30-35 km freewheeling I arrived at Bolzano. From the descent there was beautiful view back to the rockwall of Schlern which had nice orange colours an hour before the sunset. Although homewards I only had to pass through the 1100m high St Lugan pass, because its 900m heightdifference and the way how it was going on the side of the mountain it was a great experience. This pass is not between the famous passes, but it’s unforgettable for me that the road goes in the side of the vertical rockwall for 2-3 km ...