More than 3 years ago I got the tip Hotel Cristallo in Levico Terme.as I wanted to do some tours in this area for a long time, the destination for a longer trip was fixed, but only this year the opportunity to do it finally arose.over the winter time I have put together five partly very demanding tours based on my already existing local knowledge, extensive map study and the motorcycle tour planner. One tour should include the Passo Pian delle Fugazze, the Passo Fittanze as well as the Monte Baldo and the Monte Bondone (resulting in 380 km), one should lead to Lake Garda, Passo Croce Domini as well as the route along the Lago dei Valvestino and finally go through the Brazilian Gorge at Lake Garda (= 350 km), one should include the Kaiserjägerstraße and the Passo Manghen (= 250 km) and one to Monte Grappa and Passo S. Boldo (= 330 km). The last tour then finally rough in the direction of Cortina d'Ampezzo (= 410 km).the date should be end of September/beginning of October.Petra said, put it in the Alpenbiker-Forum - maybe 1 or 2 people will come along? On 17.04. I put it in and the registrations came in no time at all! 9 other participants besides myself had finally joined for the full time - 7 days as well as 4 others who only wanted to/could participate for 1 or 2 days.

Realization:

For the planned period from 22 - 28.09. beautiful weather was announced for Trentino.

Sunday, 22.09. Drive to Levico Terme

Jürgen, Ingo and Franz (Aquarius) started at 9:10 am together with me in Sonthofen.
Through the Tannheimer Tal we went down to Weissenbach, where we met Franz (Bronco). Then over the Hahntennjoch to Pillerhöhe and over the Reschenpass.

In Schluderns (Vinschgau) we met Michael and Markus. From there we continued on the small but nice mountain road to Schlanders and on towards Meran. Then we turned right over Marleng and Lana to the Gampen Pass. But suddenly some participants were missing! Michael told us that there had been an accident, but that they would come soon. In Lana we waited. It turned out that Franz (Aquarius) had suddenly - without any outside influence - gone off the road to the right, got stuck with his BMW on a wall and had said goodbye to the bike with a somersault! Fortunately, hardly anything had happened to him (a small flesh wound on his foot). But the motorcycle was heavily damaged, so that it was not possible to continue the journey. - Franz was able to drive home himself later by means of a rental vehicle (via the ADAC) and also load up his motorcycle and transport it home.
The rest of us then drove over the Gampen Pass to Mezzolombardo and via Trento to Levico Terme.
After dinner we could review the day with a comfortable evening.

Monday, Sep 23rd Tour Borcola - Fittanze

At 9 o'clock we started this demanding tour!
Before the start of the tour I agreed with my passengers that I would stop for a photo stop every now and then. The others could then already drive on and wait for me at the next turnoff. Who wanted to close photos himself could of course also stop for a short time and we would meet again at the next turnoff. Because a common stop of all participants at every short photo stop would simply take too much time.
So first I drove from Levico Terme along the Fricca road to Carbonare and then on towards Folgaria. Since we hadn't found a gas station on this route yet, I didn't continue immediately to Passo Coe - contrary to the original plan - but continued on to Folgaria and the next gas station. Unfortunately, one participant did not wait for the following part of the group, so that two participants - without refueling stop - drove directly to Passo Coe. But there we met again.

Up to the Passo Borcola we went on varied and above all lonely (no traffic!). Then we continued towards Rovereto. After I made another photo stop, I followed the others, but had to wait about 10 minutes at an actually small short construction site before I was allowed to continue. But at the next junction there was nobody standing! So I thought "Shh... they went straight ahead towards Rovereto!" So I drove straight on to Rovereto, but there was nobody there either! So on to Fugazze! There should be a break up there. But when I got to the top, there was nobody there again! Since Michael had said before that he would rather stop at Passo Xon, I thought "Ok, so that's where they went!" - also a failure, because the restaurant there - just like the one at Fugazze - had closed! So we went on to Recoaro Terme - but nobody was here either. Because I did not meet anybody later I tried to reach Markus, which I finally succeeded. "Where am I now?" - "We are now in Schio!" Oops! Totally wrong corner! So then we agreed that I would do the rest of the tour alone and the others would find a way by themselves. Shit happens!

So I went on over many small lonely roads to the Passo Fittanze and down into the Etsch valley.

Then we took the great route from Avio up to Monte Baldo - simply brilliant! At the Bocca di Navene - great view down to Lake Garda - we had a cappuccino break before we continued our way down to Mori via the Monte Baldo area.

There I turned left and later following the turnoff up to Ronzo Chienis I came to Passo Bordala and later to Monto Bondone.

From there you return to Levico Terme via Trento. At 6:40 pm I arrived at the hotel.
Here the others were waiting for me - who had arrived long before. They told me that we had even met on the departure from Fugazze! But nobody called at that moment, so that I - as already described - drove on alone.

Tuesday, september 24th, Tour Lake Garda - Croce Domini

The evening before we had agreed to shorten this tour and to cancel the section from Lake Idro to Passo Croce Domini. Thus, the distance was shortened from 350 km planned at first to almost 280 km. Via Carbonare and Folgaria we went down into the Adige Valley. From there we went on via Nomi and Patone and then via Lenzima to Torbole on Lake Garda. The road was - as known - very very narrow, but completely new asphalted! However, we were stopped at a large construction site truck, whose driver made it clear to us that the rest of the route was impassable!

So we had to turn around and take the way over the Passo Bordala (which we already had on the program in the afternoon). There we had a cappuccino break and went on to Lake Garda.

Above Torbole the obligatory photo stop and further on to Riva del Garda and up to Valle di Ledro.

From there to Lake Idro and then to one of my personal "highlights of the Alps", the route along the Lago di Valvestino. I have ridden the route many times before, but I had NEVER taken a photo there! That should be different this time.

From there we went down to Gagnano on Lake Garda - for the next cappuccino break. Then we went quickly up to Tignale and on towards Tremosine. But first turn right to the Brasa Gorge. A stretch of road I had never ridden before myself. But I had already seen a lot of photos of it and therefore I wanted to go there - it was worth it! An eye-catcher! Since I wanted to close the photos again I sent the others ahead with the advice to wait for me downstairs.

After I had taken my photos I drove down to the main road. But there nobody was waiting for me. So I went on to Riva del Garda and in the middle of the traffic towards Arco. Then suddenly I saw Michael driving some cars in front of me and so I caught up with my group again. Together we went to Arco and from there we took the narrow road up to Monte Velo and Passo S. Barbara - a route to ride dizzy! Via Ronzo Chienis and the Passo Bordala we continued along the Lago di Cei and Aldano back to Levico Terme.
With the common dinner and afterwards get-together this wonderful day came to an end.

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Unterkunftsempfehlung:
Italien: Hotel Cristallo (Levico Terme)