On the Grossglockner High Alpine Road

6th stage: Glocknerkönig Start 5:55 arrive 11:05 Net time Glocknerkönig 2:37:11.9 Conclusion of my tour diagonally through Germany. Unfortunately it started to rain shortly after the start. If I hadn't handed my rucksack over to the luggage bus, I probably wouldn't have gone up there, but would have cycled straight away towards Munich. So I tormented myself up the Großglockner High Alpine Road with 2000 other crazy people. It was wet, cold and uncomfortable at the top. So right back down. The descent was almost as strenuous as the ascent: always very careful into the wet corners. Below was my motivation for continuing the journey away and so my tour ended at the train station in Bruck - Fusch.

Super nice day caught for the Großglockner 💪🚴 ♀️

Of course, the Grossglockner High Alpine Road was built to make this truly magnificent mountain world tangible for everyone. But the fact that everyone has to do it is an absolute curse!!!! And that in a national park. 😤 Absolute madness! No approach that anyone here thinks about, neither the users nor the operators! The summit is then really the summit. Even on the Edelweisspitze - a small vantage point - is still carted up with everything there is! Despite the sign that there is a traffic jam. What? Are they really spiders? Extremely memorable is also a Brit who tormented himself with his caravan up the entire high alpine road and also past me, with 15-20 cars/motorcycles in tow, only to cart the same way down again 1.5 hours later. Fuel prices and €38 for the ticket. Doesn't matter! man man! What is mankind thinking while the global climate catastrophe is in full swing. With droughts, water shortages and forest fires....and and and...🙈🤬🤮

Great tour, definitely worth remembering. The pictures speak for themselves.

This now is the highest spot I’ve ever taken the bike, beating Envalaria Pass in the Pyrenees by 163m. This was fun. Perfect weather. Left at sunrise back for lunch. In the beginning i though I had paced it too conservatively but above about 2000m the thin air really made it quite hard. Even lowering the effort as much as possible, my heart was still beating out of my neck. The last 1.5km up were particularly hard because they added cobble stones to the mix. Met a guy at the top that I passed earlier and who had just finished his 50th time up this mounting this year alone. Crazy. Way down had strong cross winds and wet roads in the first part making for slow descend.

Hello everyone, Well, finally, the time had come. Day x was just around the corner, a day late. And so I headed up high with my sweet 🐭. My 🐭 was really dreading this tour and asked if it would be okay if she turned around at turn 1 (small goals are goals too). But from the start, I had no doubt that she could do it, but it was going to be a lot of work. . The weather today was just 😎. The route was set, and so we could get started... I was highly motivated, Tina W. was so-so.... Everyone climbed the way up at their own pace, but I kept waiting for my 🐭. At 2000 m, it was clear to me that nothing was going to burn anymore, but the wind up there was blowing pretty hard 🌬. . Once we reached the Törlkopf, everyone gave my 🖐 a big 😘 because the worst was over. Now just two small peaks left. We continued on to the Hochtor, where I was hoping to jump against a wall of snow again (#Elbspitze2024). We got closer and closer, and I could already see from a distance that the snow jump wasn't going to happen 😅. . Once we reached the top, I saw more and more joy in my 🐭's face... joy at having made it, and yes, you can do it too! 💪🫶. . After this highlight, we headed for the Edelweißspitze, the first goal of the ElbSpitze 2009. Once we reached the top, my 🐭 was overjoyed... and yes, you can be too! I know you don't like mountains, but I'm all the more pleased that you cycled this tour with me 🥰. Congratulations on your first Alpine pass 🏅. After all this exertion, we first had a nice plate of food 🍜 + 🥤. . A spectacular descent followed... but with the wind, it was quite shaky. Down in Bruck, we stopped at the "Cafe Bar Beo." Homemade cake and delicious coffee were truly amazing, something you rarely find in Austria. . Afterward, we scootered around the lake one more time before heading back to our accommodation. And so a wonderful day, with a wonderful tour and fantastic company, came to an end 🥰