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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...

From the snowy mountains to the sandy beach (2000)

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 19:55:23

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so close to the mountains, not too far from the fog and not too much time before the sunset and there were always thundering. I couldn’t wait for long because the darkness. During the rolling down in the rain – when it wasn’t raining so serious, than before - I had cold; I had to shake my legs and arms and make them tremble not to feel the cold. In the last 20 kms I could bike on dry roads. Homewards I could take delight of some clouds lighted by the sunset. It was wonderful after a nice day. (183 km + 3671m heightdifference)

3rd training tour: On my last - serious - tour without any heavy pack I liked to climb up four passes: the Fedaia (2056m), the Giau (2236m), the Falzarego (2105m) and homewards the Pordoi (2239m). The 14 km long and continuous 6% steep climb to the Fedaia pass was going in the first part in fir tree forest, then it was directed into some tunnels with „windows” on it in its right side. There were only columns in that side, so I could enjoy the scenic view of the 3342m high Marmolada and its glaciers. At the summit I found the ca. 2 km long clear lake I had known already and straight ahead the Civetta showed its rocks. Backwards there was also a nice picture of the „Rosengarten group”. It is a wonderful rockgroup in the Dolomites and is famous for its colours in the sunset. The descent is sometimes on the program of the Giro d’Italia, because upwards sometimes it’s 16% steep. In spite of the long straight slope I didn’t have enough braveness to fast above the speed of 70 km/h. From Caprile (1014m) I biked up to the 1453m high Colle Santa Lucia on a wonderful road. The scenic view on the left started from the Lake Alleghe and the 2000m higher Civetta (photo) (with its 1500m high rockwall) then in the middle the area and the valley of the Fedaia pass with the Marmolada and at the end, on the right the valley towards to the Pordoi-pass. The little village, Caprile was nearly 500 m deeper than me. I was ...