Saturday, October 20, 2007

Day 190 Oct 16 Tue - Wild Camp in Loosdorf to High Voltage Cable Camp in Sierning

Where is this beautiful castle, Karen? Amstetten,Sertenstetten,St Peter or Steyr


Countryside beautiful houses with vast grass land
Storing up grasses for the coming winter



Not an ideal camp under waist length grasses and high voltage cable
setting up the tent
High voltage cables pole

Black forest in Austria

Today's Distance: 97 km
Today's Temp: 3 - 21 °c
Average Speed: 16.3 max: 61
Time on Bike: 5 hr 58 min
Average climb: 2% max: 9%
Trip Altitude: 713 m max: 438 m
Today's spending: 4.4 euro
Total Distance to date: 12414 km
Total spending to date: 88.94 euro


"Everything you touched was ice cold" in the night & morning, but afternoon was sunny blue sky, in fact I was sweating on the climbs and had to remove my extra layer of clothing and head mask.Started at 10 am on a heavy misty morning,visibility abt 20m on a rather slow speed with extra cares,legs were heavy and feet were cold.They don't seem to like the cold weather either.The afternoon sun certainly helped to raise my speed. Decided to bypass Linz,going southward following Rd 1 to Amstetten and then Rd 122 to Sertenstetten,St Peter and Steyr.Not really a scenic road but was the shorter way to Salzburg.Camped by 6.30pm just before dark even though I missed that century mark by 3 km.Not an ideal campsite under high voltage cable and waist length grasses.Tomorrow expected to to see 2-3 lakes & some hills to climb.Not sure whether can reach Salzburg or not...

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