Long and spectacular tour today. We had
redone our existing 2000 metres tour, as it would probably be to
much. Instead we would use a train.
We set of early at 8.45 AM, extra time
that was sorely needed. Paulina and Hopsing being the fit people set
of up the main road towards the Passo del Foscagno were we would met
up with them. The rest took the lift up to the top of the mountain
above Eira and biked down the bike park. We would probably have been
better of with a downhill bike, but it was still fun none the less
with our mountain bikes. After reaching and intersection of the road
with the bike park we biked up toEira and the through the rest of
Trepalle towards the pass where we would met the other two. We had to
pass through customs and nearly all of us didn't have our passports,
but we managed to get through without a hitch. Heidi overshot our
meeting point a bit and had to bike back up the main road to get back
to us. After we had all met up again we proceeded down a super trail,
fun and still bikeable. There was a ridge at one point where I wasn't
to sure if it could carry my weight, but I got over without causing
it to collapse. After biking down the trail for a fair amount of
time, we arrived at a forest road which we followed for a rather long
time. Nice and flat so we burnt away a few kilometres. Hans had been
here before, so we had an on hand tour guide with us. He showed us
the glacier on the other side of the valley and lots of other stuff,
still promising there would be more to come. A long uphill part after
that, reaching the highest point of the day I think. Had some lunch
and didn't spend to much time, before we set of back downhill. The
next stretch that was planned would take us downhill for 1600 metres,
so a long way down. We passed through what Hans dubbed “Paradise”,
a typical Swiss postcard picture. Snow capped mountains high up, a
lake underneath it surrounded by tress. And to top it of we had a
brilliant run all the way down to the train station. Heidi had a flat
tyre on the way down, but we managed it in a rather short time,
thanks to Hopsings
That train can climb up cliffs. Seeing
the first section of the line I thought it must be near to
impossible, but they manage. A lot on the train where in camera mode
(tourists), including us, and we had fun getting rid of metres
without doing anything. Had some proseco and beer, sponsored by Hans
and saw a few spectacular glaciers. If only Switzerland wasn't that
expensive. We got of at a train station at 2200 metres above sea
level and biked downhill with a lot of wind against us. We had to
bike downhill, but we left the road fairly quickly and proceeded up
the last valley of the day. Took some time getting up that, but we
reached the Alpe in good time. Didn't stop for a drink and carried
strait on. Biked along the high mountains of the Alp, but to the end
the ground greeted me again, as I had a crash, but nothing to
serious. We reached the end of the valley and pushed down to the pass
at the top end of Livigno. Rather dangerous situation as we had to
walk over some gravely areas with steep drops to our left and not
everybody is not bothered by the vertigo. We reached the bottom
without incident thankfully and then had a nice long downhill run to
the hotel in Livigno with a shower and something to eat.
Nicest tour out of three till now, but
with lots of kilometres. You do have to count away the kilometres for
the lift and the train and it ends up somewhere by 80 kilometres and
1600 metres in altitude.
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