Bicycle Touring
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Day 8: Pieve di Cadore to Sauris
Last night we had “the talk”: A routing discussion where we took a close look at the remaining “aspirational” route through Italy and Slovenia to see what’s practical…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Day 7: Selva di Val Gardena to Pieve di Cadore
A good rebound for us after an exhausting day yesterday. Still a lot at 102km and 2000m of climbing, but most of the climbing was done by 1:30…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Day 6: Brez to Selva di Val Gardena
I was able to edit a short video of today’s ride, if you’re interested. Today was a brutal day for us. It started out well — our hotelier…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Day 5: Stazzona to Brez
Today we made a few changes to our route on the fly. Originally we had planned to climb the Mortirolo out of Tirano, but we thought better of…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Day 4: Filisur, Switzerland to Stazzona, Italy
Today’s update will be brief (Ed: I guess I lied); as I’m starting to write. it’s 11:15 and we’ve got an early start planned tomorrow. Leaving from Filisur…
Ben
Alps 2024 — Day 2: Singen, Germany to Buchs, Switzerland
This morning we woke up pretty late because we’d had such a long day yesterday. We had several things to do in the AM before we could head…
Ben
Alps 2024 — Day 1: Welzheim to Singen (192km)
I woke up at 4:45 as per schedule and tried and failed to do some mobile video editing. Eventually I gave up and decided to pack up. We…
Ben
Alps 2024 — The Arrival
Long flight, not much sleep, but that’s a distant memory. We were on our way to Welzheim by 10am after breezing through customs and baggage claim. Like Madison.…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Ben and Harald’s Alpine Adventure Begins
An adventure long-in-the-planning is finally here! Ben and Harald are headed to Germany where they’ll start their cycling tour through the Alps! On Sunday (July 7, 2024), Harald…
Ben
“…and I would [bike 480] miles…”
Yesterday we made it home, after a beautiful 60 mile day that was through mostly familiar terrain. We found ourselves (by no accident) winding around small rivers and…
Ben & Liz