Stop off at the Galaun with a magnificent view over Lake Tegernsee? How about the Gindelalm, which has the largest selection on the menu. Or perhaps an apple spritzer at the Kreuzbergalm first? These are the luxury problems that mountain bikers face around Lake Tegernsee. The Bavarian Alps are dotted with cosy mountain pastures, no matter which direction you start from the shores of the sparkling blue lake. Nevertheless, many come here mainly for the dessert. The icing on the cake of every tour: the trail descent. Trail intermezzi can be discovered again and again at Lake Tegernsee on and below the green humps that arch up between the Isar and Inn rivers. Sometimes steep, overgrown with gnarled roots, as on the descent from Neureuth. Or sometimes grippy and treacherous, as on the descent from the Gindelalmschneid. Here the trail consists of trodden clay gullies with a sandy surface.
Trail intermezzi on Lake Tegernsee
However, one delicacy is not on the Voralpen map: soft-boiled metres in altitude on mechanical ascent aids, i.e. gondolas. The cable cars and lifts in the region, on the Wallberg, Brauneck and Wendelstein, simply do not take bikes. At Lake Tegernsee, bikers are still allowed to honestly work for every metre of ascent themselves, even if this is sometimes difficult.
The five best MTB tours on Lake Tegernsee:
Update (June 2017): The Hirschberg Trail on Lake Tegernsee no longer exists in the form described. Unfortunately, it has been turned into a four metre wide gravel road!
1st Hirschberg Trail 607 (18.4 km, 680 m elevation gain, 2:10 h)
2. over the Huberspitz (24 km, 960 m elevation gain, 2:30 h)
3rd Brünnstein circuit (47.01 km, 1615 m elevation gain, 4:40 h)
4th Röhrlmoos Tour (30.18 km, 1148 m elevation gain, 3:00 h)
5th Valepp-Spitzingsattel (29.73 km, 846 m elevation gain, 2:58 h)
BOOK TIP: Erzherzog-Johann-Klause, Neureuth, Wallberg, Valepp - these are the classics on Lake Tegernsee, but even these tours have been spruced up with lots of exciting trail connections in recent years. One of these trail finders is Thomas Rögner. Born in Munich, he has compiled 30 tours in one of his latest tour guides "BIKE Guide Tegernsee" (29.90 euros at www.delius-klasing.de) has been put together.
You can download the Tegernsee MTB area guide with roadbooks and GPS data below.
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Gitta Beimfohr
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