Latzfonser Kreuz
Description
If you cycle from Brixen via Feldthurns up to the Latzfonser Kreuz, the sheer length of the ascent might make you think you are heading for the highest place of pilgrimage in the Alps. There are 1800 meters of altitude to tickle out of your calves this way. If this difference in altitude is too much for you, take the bike shuttle to the parking lot a little above Garn and save yourself almost 900 meters in altitude, i.e. almost exactly half. The ascent from Bressanone/Brixen up to the Lazfonser Kreuz cross leads primarily along small asphalt roads and finally along a gravel road to the chapel, which can be seen from afar. However, the culmination point of the tour has not yet been reached. Instead, you climb a few more meters up to the south-eastern ridge of the Jocherer Berg.
From now on, it's finally downhill! The descent is first on a trail, then on a gravel road to the Villanderer Alm. Now follows the trail spectacle to Klausen. To do this, you circle the Samberg on the south side. The great single trail, sometimes fast and flowing, sometimes a little more challenging, leads past the former ore mine to the St. Anna chapel. There is a short stretch of gravel road until you reach the next trail at Moar-Hof. This path finally leads down to the outskirts of Klausen, with the last few meters into the village center leading along a local road. Those who are at the end of their tether here can take the train back to Brixen. All others cycle the remaining 13 kilometers on the cycle path along the Eisack back to Brixen.
Note:
- The highest places of pilgrimage in the Alps are Ziteil (Graubünden), Mont Thabor (Piemont) and Rocciamelone (Piemont). There is a suitable route suggestion from Ride for each of these locations.
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Details of the tour
55 km
2005 m
2005 m
519 above sea level
2335 above sea level
1 day
Brixen
Brixen
1879
well suited
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User comments (1)
About the author: Thomas Giger
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I don't think the tour description does the tour justice, neither up nor down, which is why I'm making up for it now ;). A super great tour, which in my opinion fully lives up to the term "all mountain".
Uphill (we started the tour from Klausen, then it's about 40km) it's always a bit steeper than pleasant and you often think that one more gear would be excellent. You are then sure of yourself for the last 200 m before the chapel. It gets so steep that you are forced to push, at least I would guess that hardly anyone can do that without a motor. The view from the chapel is beautiful. The short ascent afterwards is on a trail and you are forced to descend again and again. It's worth taking a break at the top, where you also have a beautiful view of the Dolomites. The first part of the descent is quite flat, you surf along a narrow path on a kind of plateau and enjoy the here and now to the full. This is followed by the aforementioned gravel section, which of course you'd rather not have, but looking back I don't think it's bad. We stop briefly at the Stoffel hut (there are two other huts on the ascent, as well as fountains) and then set off on the rest of the tour. It is important to know that the first section is always a short climb. After the gravel comes what is probably (as described) the most varied descent I have ever done. Sometimes on wooden footbridges, then soft forest floor, root carpets and pine cone carpets form the beginning, but it never actually gets steep. Whenever you think it's getting boring, there are a few steps or a stone field that force you to concentrate. The second part becomes steeper, around the Valland mine you are suddenly sent to Tenerife, there are very technical steps, steep sections with sharp-edged, small, flat and loose stones and you are also temporarily forced to descend to push past rocks (well secured). Towards the bottom, large loose stones pile up in steep terrain, occasionally you bump over flat but steep stone fields, with relaxed forest sections in between. After a few bends on small roads, you are suddenly back in Klausen, eating your ice cream and seeing other people again, which had drastically diminished since the rest stop in the hut.
Especially in autumn (because of the colors) in dry conditions, I can really recommend this tour (with power in your legs or with a motor). If you only want to do the descent (without the plateau, I don't know about the view), you can also do the Samberg tour.