Woke up in the middle of the night, thinking I was awake to late.
Luckily had a few hours left to rest. Woke up at 7.25 AM with the
alarm and got ready, packing things here and there. Had breakfast at
8 o'clock, lots of bread and tea and set of at about 9.30. First
thing we looked for was a bike repair centre, as Nico's bike had
morphed to a motorbike. He had a throttle on his left handle bar as
his grip wasn’t tightened enough. After (seemingly) fixing that, we
carried on, steep uphill for a short while after which Nico's handle
grip fell of completely. Dropped his rucksack and raced the short
trip back to the bike centre. I looked at some religious stones set
up in a circle until he came back. After biking through some woods
and past a local (muuu), we went whizzing downhill into the Inn
valley. Rather a hot day again, with blue sky. After passing the
Power-Plobb (turns po in to power) we carried on along the Inn
towards Innsbruck. Long strait little gravel roads with lots of
bikers. We passed a racing track with an RC fuel car making a lot of
noise and stopped to watch a bit. Carried on and biked through
Innsbruck with it's lots of people. Had to push through the
pedestrian zone as that was full. After that we used the Innsbruck
bike network to get out and also saw rather a lot of bikers. The Inn
valley seems to be a rather liked bike destination. Getting out of
Innsbruck we paid the price for our 500 metres in altitude downhill
run from Seefeld. All and more back up again. Unfortunately we had to
follow the main road up. Didn't see any tracks going up the Wipp
valley (name of the valley towards the Brenner pass). Whilst biking
up we heard the ominous rumbling of thunder and clouds had been
appearing more and more for a few hours. After Nico had replenished
his dwindling water supplies we where caught in a bit of a shower but
nothing noticeable. At one point I was biking in dry conditions
whilst Nico being 50 metres behind me caught a bit of rain.
We had lunch at a rather snug restaurant and whilst we where
eating it started raining. Rain clothes on and with a full stomach we
carried on. Saw the Stubai glacier to our right but carried on up the
Wipp valley. A weird up and down track followed. The left curves
mostly being about 30 metres above the right curves. And it was still
raining. We where overtaken or passed by still a high amount of other
biker. Arrived in Steinach am Brenner after going down into the
valley where I asked at an ice cream pallor for a plastic bag to put
the wet rain gear in. We biked uphill for quiet some time and didn't
want to run a green house centre under our jackets. After biking
under and up past the Brenner high road we reached the top after
quiet some climbing and the rain had picked up again. Reaching the
top we where just under the clouds and as it went downhill after that
we got our long clothes on. From that point onwards we started
looking for a place to stay. The first place we rung at nobody
answered. The second place was a pub. Nico disappeared inside for a
rather extended amount of time, me looking after the bikes outside in
a downpour. It turned out the owner was very friendly and helped ring
up half the town. No place free except one about one to two
kilometres away from where we were standing, back the way we had
come. After getting a bit lost we where greeted by the friendly owner
and a warm shower and fireplace for our things to dry. After the
shower we went down for some dinner and when we came back full, where
greeted by a kitten at the front door which we played with for a
while. After that to bed and blogger.
Track at
GPSies and
pictures at
Picasa.
Time in saddle: 5 hours 3 min.
Distance: 65.88 km
Average
speed: 13.05 km/h
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