EDELWEISS MOTORCYCLE TOUR
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Edelweiss High Alps Tour
Route Highlights
Many of the Edelweiss tour options cross some of the same well-
known and lesser-known—but equally fantastic—roads passes
and historical highlights in the Alps region. Those options vary in
number of days, difficulty of the routes and amount of support.
(The "extreme" tours don't include the support van, for example.)
They also fine-tune the routes, hotel choices, tourist/historical
stops and coffee/lunch stops based on participant feedback. The
website ranks the rides in terms of difficulty level, mileage and
tourist stops but you'll find that Edelweiss tours emphasize riding
over tourist destinations. So, you can expect to ride a lot and do
some relatively quick stops at a few castles or historical locations.
Our High Alps tour included some
famous passes including the Gross-
glockner, Stelvio, and Gavia. Austria's
Grossglockner has great pavement
with tight switchbacks and an amaz-
ing view of a glacier at the top. The
Stelvio pass includes beautiful views,
extremely tight switchbacks and, on
most days, a lot of cyclists, motorcy-
cles and cars, so it is not an exciting
road to ride but is quite a spectacle.
My wife and I went
into this trip with high
expectations and
those were blown
away. The Stelvio
pass in Italy was one
of the more amazing
views and the ride up
was a spectacle as
we shared the road
with motorcycles,
cars and cyclist.
