http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291246 July 3rd-7th, 2011

After biking touring in Belgium (2009) and Ireland (2010), we decided that this year we would continue the trend of increasing topographical roughness by biking through Switzerland. Our route roughly followed Swiss Federal Bike Route #4. We started in the town of Rorschach on Lake Constance, then rode through to Hemberg, Linthal, Beckenried, Soerenberg, and finally Thun. We totaled 320 km and 5500 m of climbing (200 miles and 18000 feet of climbing) over the course of 5 days. The highlight of the trip was the climb over the Klausenpass at 1954 m, higher than the summit of Mt. Washington! This was followed by an equally big descent down the other side of the pass to Lake Luzern, where we took a marvelous boat ride across the lake to our destination in Beckenried.]]> en-us Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.7 Fri, 24 May 2013 23:01:25 -0400 120 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=291253 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291246 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291285 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291285
Cows in the middle of the road on the climb up Klausenpass]]> Greg Wallace photo Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:00:51 -0400 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291281 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291281
Top of the final climb!]]> Greg Wallace photo Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:46:40 -0400 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291278 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291278
Coming down from Klausenpass towards Altdorf]]> Greg Wallace photo Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:46:40 -0400 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291275 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291275
The warning sign at the start of the climb up Klausenpass. Translation: climbs 1280m in 21 km]]> Greg Wallace photo Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:50:33 -0400 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291272 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291272
Top of Klausenpass!!!]]> Greg Wallace photo Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:42:51 -0400 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291269 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291269
The view from our room's balcony on July 4th. No fireworks, but it'll do]]> Greg Wallace photo Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:42:51 -0400 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291266 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291266
Greg with special guest biker Andrew McDonnell in front of an awesome roadsign. The flying saucer shaped thing in the lower right is an entrance to the Swiss Army tunnels that connect bunkers all over the country]]> Greg Wallace photo Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:57:44 -0400 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291263 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291263
Yep, we biked up that 18% grade]]> Greg Wallace photo Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:42:51 -0400 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291260 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291260
Moo]]> Greg Wallace photo Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:37:39 -0400 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291257 http://mitoc.mit.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=291257
Village of Ennetmaercht on the climb up to Klausenpass]]> Greg Wallace photo Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:37:39 -0400