As I had nothing planned after work
today and I often finish early on Fridays it was back on to the bike,
even after biking on Thursday. Heidi had offered to go biking as she
has Friday afternoons of, too.
Met up at beautiful sunshine and
sweltering temperatures in the afternoon and the first thing we did
was bike up the Alpspitze. To get there we had to pass a flock of
children and parents walking towards the very mountain we wanted to
bike up. After lots of dodging and ringing (kids don't react to that)
we managed it past them and got up the Alpspitze at a rather fast
pace. We had our fair share of sweltering moments on some near to
white gravel, but whilst chatting to Heidi we where up in a jiffy.
After that downhill towards the Kappler Alm and further towards the
Gundhütte. Tried to get there on Wednesday but didn't want to take
the risk going down along a trail on my own (and I didn't know the
way). After the Gundhütte there where two trail to chose from, one
would allow us a nice run downhill and the other would mean some
walking. Both of them start in the same direction and end up at the
same point, but none of us two had an idea which was which. Guess
which one was taken.
After some getting of and on, and some
nice trails through the forest we arrived at the bottom and headed
for the Bärenmossalpe. We couldn't carry on for long though, as the
lumberjacks where in that part of the forest somewhere so we turned
round and headed for the Sorgalm, where I had forgotten my bottle
last night. On the way we biked up some pretty step roads, me and
another biker pushed up while Heidi biked it all. After retrieving my
bottle and having a drink and piece of cake we biked back via the
main road and said goodbye at my home. I met Heidi again later,
weirdly, as I still had some shopping to do and she was there just by
chance to.
Time in saddle: 3 hours
Average speed: 12.0 km/h
Distance: 36.6 km
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