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Tips for DIY mechanics » Tour 3 - Kaunertal Glacier Road Tour Tour length: 91km Travel time: ca. 2h 30min
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Touring tips The Kaunertal Glacier Road, with more hairpins than kilometres and
Country tips » some impressive climbs, is just waiting to be experienced. It's worth it,
even if you have to return the same way.
It's one of those inexplicable oversights that, until this summer, we had never
done the Kaunertal Glacier Road: even though we know the roads of Tyrol almost
as well as the proverbial back of our hand. After all, when you can combine the
Service-Box most magnificent passes with the panoramas of the Alps, why take a route that
brings us to a some fantastic scenery but no further? In other words, the
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Kaunertal Glacier Road is a cul-de-sac.
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C ompetition Until that mild June day, we hadn't the faintest notion what we were missing out of
C atalogue sheer idleness. The original plan for the Wednesday, which was to open our eyes,
C ontact was a visit to Burg Berneck castle in the Kaunertal Valley followed by either a trip
LouisFunC ard through the Reschen Pass to Italy or a detour into Val Müstair in Switzerland.
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Material lexicon Berneck Castle is privately
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Shipping costs No sooner said than done: we hopped on our bikes and off we went. When planning our
Payment options day trip, however, we hadn't realised that Berneck C astle is privately owned and the
present owners rarely open the doors to the general public. So it wasn't to be, and we
had to come up with an alternative plan. This is how we came to point our bikes in the
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direction of Feichten, where the Kaunertal Glacier Road starts. We paid the toll at the
Safe payment booth and didn't look back.
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The entrance to this valley is extremely pretty and the different colours of the
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surrounding mountains, with the white-capped summits of Madatschkopf (3,783 m),
Waze Kopf (2,918 m) and Stange (2,723 m) to our left, are mesmerising. Then finally
the first hairpins came, and we laid into them with gusto. But at hairpin number 28 we
had to pause for a moment, because on the right, near an area of loose stone, we
espied a group of chamois and ibex. Soon enough, though, our throttle hand began to
itch again.
But our urge to press ahead was again checked only a few kilometres further on: the
valley opened up around us and gave us an unimpeded view of a stunning blue. We
were looking straight at the crest of the dam of the Gepatsch revervoir, and in that
same instant we regretted not having brought our swimming things with us.
Since bathing was no doubt forbidden anyway, and the
water was probably much too cold, we rode cheerfully on.
The next six kilometres took us eastwards along the bank
of the reservoir. Then the fun part began in earnest, and
we got to experience for ourselves what we had been
promised.
This tour tip was prepared by the editorial department of ALPENTOURER magazine. ALPENTOURER is
published four times a year and contains information on the most beautiful motorcycle tours between the
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