Wednesday, July 25 - We made all our trains yesterday (3 of them) on our way to Davos, from Innsbruck. We are staying at Hotel Strela, another Bike Hotel, which is quaint and quiet. It should be lively this weekend when the town is full for a big trail running event.
Thursday, July 26 - We got the 9:15am Jakobshorn trams to the top, two of them. We descended towards Sertig Dorfli. Our hands were still super tired from the lame "Guide" brakes we had in the Dolomites. Francine's bike we rented from Bike Academy Davos also has the same brakes, that don't brake very well.
We climbed to the top of the Rinerhorn Gondola on a well graded, narrow trail (#647) full of hikers. Next was trail 335 to Monstein. This was another nice, narrow trail, fairly well graded on the uphills, also full of hikers. We reached a refugio, which we thought was the brewery in Monstein, but was just a place offering beer and speck (salted meats). As Francine was walking back from the bathroom (watercloset), a 4x4 vehicle that one of the owners had parked, and left in neutral started rolling backwards and was headed directly for Kevin, laying in a lawnchair. We don't know how Kevin was able to get out of the chair, but it missed him, and ran into two bikes and stopped. Luckily it ran into two bikes and managed to stop before flyong into a couple morebikes and a building below. Unfortunately, for one guy, his Ebike, and Francine's rear wheel of her bike, were the stoppers for the 4x4 vehicle.
The Ebike handlebars were totally bent, and the bike was unrideable. The owners of the refugio were super apologetic and did give us their number if Francine's bike had any issues. The owner said it was her fault. Francine told her it wasn't. She said it was, as she was the one who parked the 4x4, (probably left in neutral). We did get two free espressos out of the scary incident, as she wouldn't take our payment.
After leaving, we got off track and climbed on a trail that took us higher than we needed. When it hit the road, we descended into the town of Monstein. Here, we also joined with a guy riding here for the day from Zurich. Descended and started another climb on 338 Zugenschlucht on a road, until a right turn onto trail, which after a nice graded trail, dropped steeply. We ended up at the Weisen train station, and continued descending in the Zugenschlucht Gorge, going under an enourmous train bridge, Landwasserviadukt. Kept descending, until we finally hit the climb back up to Filisur, where we caught the train to Davos Platz, with 4 minutes to spare.
We were quite hungry, so after arriving in Davos Platz, went to the Coop Grocery Store to refuel, and buy fixings for dinner. 30 miles and tons of climbing and descending.
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| Cow gate |
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| Starting the day with a downhill |
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| Trails are well signed |
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| The quad behind Kevin is the one that started rolling down the hill. It's parked a little better now. |
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| Francine saving her legs for lot's more trail to come. |
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| Finally going downhill, but trail so narrow... Falling off trail would be a bad idea. |
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| We continued pass this train station and got more trail on the way to Filsur. This would have been a good bailout option |
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| Missed getting the train in this photo. Still using this bridge. I think went over it on the train ride home. In fact I think Francine peed on it. Swiss trains still have toilet open to the tracks. No peeing in the stations! |
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