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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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behind the schedule of my plan, so after the beautiful experiences of the morning I decided not to hurry and tire me out with cycling on the 8-10% steep ascent of the Giau pass, but to choose the „only” 1773m high Staulanza pass and then homewards the Pordoi pass. The climb up to the Staulanza pass was not a difficult one, it sloped gently towards the huge rocks of the Monte Pelmo which was a surprise for me. From the Santa Lucia pass I already saw this mountain, and I was sad to miss the road towards it, because I believed (without looking at the map) that the road under it is the Giau-pass. So pushing the pedals towards this beautiful mountain was a nice surprise. The pass was just next to the Monte Pelmo. The last serious effort of my tour was the 10 km long ascent of the 2239m high Pordoi pass. The heightdifference was 639m, so it seemed to be a middle steep climb. I managed to bike up on this twisting road in the lights of the sunset. The tables with the height in every bend helped me a lot. The ascent was continuously same steep and it gave a lot of pictures to Arabba and the valley behind it. I met only a few cars and cyclists because of the early-evening. From the saddle I could see the triple top of the Sassolungo lighted by the last lights of the sun. I arrived home in dark again. (195 km + 3410 m heightdifference)

1st day: Cavalese – Bolzano – Merano – Reschenpass – Nauders (A) = 119 km + 1342 m heightdifference
After a cold front I started my 11 day long cycletour with a 24kg pack to the hungarian Nagykanizsa in a 23 degree warm, sunny and clear weather. I said goodbye to my parents in Bolzano. While they left for home my destination was Nauders, the next day starting departure of the Dreilander Radgiro bicyclemarathon. Nearly every bikers arrived there by car, but I had to cycle 90 kms from the 120 km in facewind and push the pedals on a climb for hours. Because of my bikepacks the wind could slow me more than without ...