Hi Chris, I don't suppose that this area of Austria happens to be in your neck of the woods when you are out there? The views are outstanding.
I'm currently getting really bad withdrawal symptoms for the Alps, and would dearly love to be up in the mountains playing.
I have a meeting on Monday to try and push forward progress for my proposed world record setting challenge of reaching the Top Of Europe. The plan is to tackle the ride in 2018. I'd liked to have done it next year, but it is not to be.
I am back out in Switzerland next July riding again though, and I'm already counting the months down, and planning some serious climbs.
The toughest will be continuing up from Birg, to Piz Gloria. Toughest because I already know just how much of an effort that it was to reach Birg, and just how close that I came to quitting. From looking at Youtube clips submitted by hikers, that there will be plenty of carrying of the bike, so I'll be opting to use the hardtail this time.
I also want to ride up the Rothorn. Again I figure that if you can ride down it, then you can ride up it. No cable car for me.
I also had to abandon a ride up to the Männlichen because adverse suddenly came in, and it wasn't safe to continue. That one is now unfinished business, especially as I only probably had a couple of miles to go. I can do that one in an evening, so timing isn't so critical. It just needs to be a bright evening.
I'll have to upload a clip of the descent from the point that I did reach. The best part of 15 miles of continuous down hill!
This made shows some of the planned rides.
The yellow arrows show the main 2017 planned rides, and the red arrow, shows the World record attempt ride.
Perhaps I shouldn't be planning my future riding years, but 2017 is Switzerland. That'll kind of also be a sad one, as I suspect that it could be the last year that our daughter will tag along. Hopefully she will be just starting Balliol studying mathematics, and it'll mark 18yrs of our lives that have seemingly passed in a blink.
2018 UK- CH plus a week in the Black Mountains in Germany visiting relatives, followed by a week visiting old haunts in Belgium close to Luxemburg. 2019 could well be time to hit Austria. A country that I have yet to visit. As for 2020 who knows, but if I'm still able to, I intend to be somewhere in the Alps ascending mountains on an eMTB.
I'm currently getting really bad withdrawal symptoms for the Alps, and would dearly love to be up in the mountains playing.
I have a meeting on Monday to try and push forward progress for my proposed world record setting challenge of reaching the Top Of Europe. The plan is to tackle the ride in 2018. I'd liked to have done it next year, but it is not to be.
I am back out in Switzerland next July riding again though, and I'm already counting the months down, and planning some serious climbs.
The toughest will be continuing up from Birg, to Piz Gloria. Toughest because I already know just how much of an effort that it was to reach Birg, and just how close that I came to quitting. From looking at Youtube clips submitted by hikers, that there will be plenty of carrying of the bike, so I'll be opting to use the hardtail this time.
I also want to ride up the Rothorn. Again I figure that if you can ride down it, then you can ride up it. No cable car for me.
I also had to abandon a ride up to the Männlichen because adverse suddenly came in, and it wasn't safe to continue. That one is now unfinished business, especially as I only probably had a couple of miles to go. I can do that one in an evening, so timing isn't so critical. It just needs to be a bright evening.
I'll have to upload a clip of the descent from the point that I did reach. The best part of 15 miles of continuous down hill!
This made shows some of the planned rides.
The yellow arrows show the main 2017 planned rides, and the red arrow, shows the World record attempt ride.
Perhaps I shouldn't be planning my future riding years, but 2017 is Switzerland. That'll kind of also be a sad one, as I suspect that it could be the last year that our daughter will tag along. Hopefully she will be just starting Balliol studying mathematics, and it'll mark 18yrs of our lives that have seemingly passed in a blink.
2018 UK- CH plus a week in the Black Mountains in Germany visiting relatives, followed by a week visiting old haunts in Belgium close to Luxemburg. 2019 could well be time to hit Austria. A country that I have yet to visit. As for 2020 who knows, but if I'm still able to, I intend to be somewhere in the Alps ascending mountains on an eMTB.
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