Over Sattel round Rigi

View from Hochstuckli of Aegeri Lake

This ride was done June 20th and was 97 km in length.

The special thing about this ride is that I did it with my friend Karl. Our plan was to do about 40kms - from Zug to Aegeri over to Sattel and then back to Zug along the Zugger See shoreline - but when we got to Sattel we decided to go for a longer ride because the weather was so great.

There were two highlights to this ride:

• High road climb through the woods behind Aegeri
• Lakeside road between Lake Lucern and Rigi mountain
  

The high road through the woods behind Aegeri is one of my favorite local roads. There is almost no traffic and has beautiful tree cover. The one drawback is that if you don't have a tripple on your bike it is pretty steep at some points. My friend Karl hadn't done any real climbing this year and he was able to complete the ride and seemed to enjoy it.

The lakeside road along the Lake of Lucern at the foot of the Rigi mountain ( from Brunnen to Weggis) is beautifully scenic, gently rolling, and has several towns along it to stop at for food and drink. I think pretty much anybody visiting Switzerland is bound to be impressed by this road.

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Along the Axenstrasse to Altdorf

Statue of Wilhelm Tell in the village of Altdorf.

This ride was done on May 29th and by Inner-Schweiz standards was flat and easy 40+km ride.

It started in the village of Walchwil on the Zugersee, and finished with a train ride back from the village of Altdorf. The ride went through Arth-Goldau, over to the village of Brunnen on the Lake of Luzern, south along the famous lakeside Axenstrassen road, past the village of Fluelen onto the village of Altdorf. Given I had some sparetime before the train in Altdorf headed back to Walchwil I did about 45 minutes of climbing up toward the Klausen pass.



The Axenstrasse is quite nice to bike south on. Although it is a busy road there is a bike path in most of the south direction, the road is an amazing engineering feat, and the spectacular views of the lake of Luzern more than make up for the sometimes annoying traffic sounds. There are several little villages to stop at along the, each of which is worth a visit. My favorites are Brunnen, Fluelen, and Altdorf.

The ride finished in Altdorf - from where Wilhelm Tell is said to have originated (shot an apple off his son's head using a crossbow). Altdorf is also a starting point for the beautiful climb to the Klausen pass.


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