Two passes summer

Diary

sleeping: bank of Danube near Kiefenholz and Geisling
daily stats: 82 km (incomplete stats)
afternoon bath in the Naab river (only one man, others relaxed)
Regensburg
- length units definition on the townhall
- message about unnamed Czech princes who came to ask for catholicism(?)
- bridge “spammed” with locks
unexpected memorial of Walhalla
- mistaken for a Nazi architecture, it actually precedes that era and was built by Ludwig I. of Bayern to celebrate famous Germans
- crowded with picnicking people with nice outlook on the Danube
- also dancing lessons for older people

sleeping: garden of a kind family near Aurolzmünster
daily stats: 30+50 km, 90 km by train (incomplete stats)
morning bath in the Danube
- mud – no clear boundary between liquid and solid bed
heatwave – after 30 km ride exhausted

low moral after lunch in Straubing
- after great discussions decision to take train
- the best price is to Passau (and the train is air-conditioned too)
Passau
- sun trap – stopping at sunny square, getting tired, no power to move away, staying at the sunny square
- crossing the Inn river, change country and landscape (more villages, little aggriculture)
Schärding
- stop at fountain, replenishing sugars and liquids
evening ride is much better (lower temperature)
evening socialization with our hosts who offered sleeping at their garden and provided us with dinner (happened never before!)

sleeping: camp of the Social Youth (free of charge?)
daily stats: 86.7 km, 5:21:23, max 59.67 km/h
breakfast at playground in Aurolzmünster
- local kids do drugs (based on social workers advertisements)
nice park in Ried im Kreis, slightly getting lost
gargantuan ice cream at lunch stop Waldzell
easy climb to 700 m of Frankenburg, pause in front of a church
heavenly groomed landscape on descent to Attersee
Attersee
- camps and private houses with private “beaches”
- the water as blue as Aryan eyes and extremely clean
- short stop at Gustav Klimt bay

sleeping: bridge in the fields above Bad Mitterndorf
daily stats: 73.09 km, 4:50:58, max 62.06 km/h
morning bath in Attersee at the Social Youth beach
bypassing main road through nice cycling path in forest
lunch break in Bad Ischl
- Triumph des Willens – do not eat the lunch at ugly parking place but wait and find a nicer place in the center
heat wave – very low performance in the afternoon (bathing and ice cream pauses)
Hallstätter See
- clean (with weird fungii(?) floating around) and green (not as blue as Attersee)
- view of the Hallstatt village with crowds of Asian tourists
afternoon stop in fairy-tale forest
passing Bad Aussee

sleeping: corn crops near Teufenbach
daily stats: 105.51 km, 6:38:20, max 67.78 km/h
day of primary climb
because of rainy forecast we set alarm clock early (~6:15) and successfully departed
detour around Grimming (>2000 m, clouded top)

sleeping: meadow above Schinderbach
daily stats: 94.6 km, 5:46:26, max 57.46 km/h
descent “along” the Mur river
- actually quite many little climbs
crossing the track of the Transcontinental Race
- groups of road cyclist with light camp baggage
lunch break in Judenburg, collecting energy for the secondary climb
Hirschegger Sattel (1543 m)
- relatively easy climb except for final ~2 kilometers with gravel road
- climbing competition: T, Mi, I, Ma
- expecing minor climb on descent but it did not happen because of wrong routing of mapy.cz
in Edelschrott purchasing train ticket to Czechia for the next day
steep descent with brake cooling

daily stats: 44.6 km, 2:43:58, max 58.55 km/h
“descent” to Graz takes longer than expected and contains quite some climbs
Graz
- lunch in nice historical quarter (Schmidt)
- climb to the castle with nice outlook
boarding the train to Prague (~6 hours journey)
- despite EC train it went slowly in Semmering
- first time “visiting” Wien Hauptbahnhof

Thanks to T for not being lazy and taking photos which he shared.