“BACK”
Plans are always good, but most of the time they didn’t work. This ride showed me that fact well. First the accident of my riding and support buddy, second: due to the heavy winter remaining and route blocking snow in Friuli’s heights and here on the last day of the ride: the real bad weather. But hey! No reason for wailing around –> When things go wrong the adventure starts and each step out of the comfort zone is gaining the riders abilities.
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The route of day no. 4: From the village Lateis in Italy back to Vienna in Austria via Slovenia.
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After heavy rain showers the last night the weather in the morning got better in Friulis Alps. After enjoying this great morning view a bit …
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I got up, did the morning toilet and settled the black pony. Due to the accident of my riding buddy Чернотa and I had to make a good amount of mileage this day. If not the TET Slovenia wouldn’t be possible to ride within the left amount of time.
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Чернотa and I started with easy gravel trails near the village Lateis. On our way down into the valley of Sauris we stopped …
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at this spring for fueling up the water reserves. Down in the valley …
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is the commune and the lake (Lago) Sauris located. There at an …
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interesting tunnel my black beauty and I made a short stop for having a …
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glance at the impressive dam wall. We went on along …
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the equal named narrow valley Sauris.
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We passed some spooky buildings, …
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and had to make some detours due to street construction works through unplanned …
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gravel tracks including a …
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slippery river crossing. After that the ride went on …
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along finest Italian tarmac roads.
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My trusty black beauty brought us further south through …
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the forests …
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of Friuli.
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In the north of the city Udine we passed …
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this impressive gravel-river-bed which leads into the opening Italian flat lands of northern Italy. There …
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real heavy rain started and forced us to make a quick snack break at this bus hut.
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The rain …
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escorted us til Slovenia and didn’t stop.
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Sadly the rain got much heavier. At a stop near …
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the entrance to …
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the Slovenian TET I checked the weather forecast. Due to ongoing heavy showers the next days in the west of Slovenia I made the decision to skip the TET Slovenia. Bad weather and resulting bad track conditions, while lacking a support riding buddy forced me to do so. Adventuring is one part, recklessness another. So Чернотa and I turned the direction from south to north and skipped about 400km of the planned route.
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The ride continued …
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til we reached the entrance to the valley of the Soca river. Totally drenched it was …
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time for a meal. After a hot mushroom soup and …
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a big greasy Pizza mhmmm Чернотa and I rode on and followed the …
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Soca river northwards. Therefore, we used some …
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tracks and …
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trails along this …
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impressive valley with the …
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emerald blue river.
The valleys northern end …
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the Triglav-Mountain-Massive is rising. There the road is leading along 50ty serpentines over the pass.
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The weather didn’t get better. At the …
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pass height we had to deal the third time this trip with remaining snow.
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Uncountable small troll hills …
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haven’t also been able to frighten away the bad weather. Through the rain we passed a few Slovenian industrial cities …
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on our way back to Austria. Along the Seeberg Saddle …
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which is the border between Slovenia and Austria, the weather got better.
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Now we had great riding conditions …
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along Styrias flat lands.
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Along the famous motorcycle route called “Soboth” …
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Чернотa and I did some …
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woody shortcuts.
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When the …
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sun was finally reaching the horizon …
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we took some high speed tarmac back to Vienna.
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Late in the evening I put Чернотa in its familiar stable …
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after a total daily distance of 735km or 450mi.
The last 4 days we traveled 1600km or 1000mi. Sadly the most interesting part of this trip in 2018 – the TET Slovenia (about 400km or 250mi) – was cancelled due to accident of my riding buddy and the bad weather conditions. Maybe, … no …, surely next time.
Overall I have to say that this little escape from the daily routine was more adventurous as estimated. ^_^