Hustle and bustle in a car park in the Vinschgau village of Naturns. Brake pads are checked, gears are adjusted, air hisses into suspension elements, muesli bars disappear into the last free cracks in the rucksack. The tension crackles a little. And it should be, because for Annette, Gitta, Frank and me, the stage ride around the Ortler is the highlight of the season. Once a year to really get away from everyday life, away from hectic civilisation. As far as you can still realise this dream in the Alps. At least the daily routine is reduced to the essential things in life for a few days: eating, sleeping and biking! And that's definitely worth the effort. After all, there are around 10,000 metres of altitude on the weekly schedule, a good tenth of which still needs to be covered this afternoon. From Naturns to Glurns. Six stages await on the tour around the Ortler, with a total of 260 kilometres and almost 10,000 metres of altitude.
You can find the complete article on the Ortler circumnavigation as a PDF download below.
You can find the link to the tour here:
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GPS data and roadbooks for the Ortler Tour are available from 3 cents/kilometre under the link to www.bike-gps.com:
- Ortler circumnavigation Naturns - Plazzona - Glurns: GPS data Orler circuit
You can now find the GPS data for many of the tours presented in BIKE in the professional tour portal of www.bike-gps.com. The data was created with pinpoint accuracy in high-resolution satellite maps and will also be available as RichTracks in future. For you, this means: no more procedures! For us, it means a considerable amount of extra work. That's why this service will have a price in future, but at 3 cents per kilometre, it's absolutely affordable.
From now on, you will receive this for every tour:
1. very precise and well-maintained GPS data
2. all waypoints of a tour
3. road book with arrow symbols and all tour data
4. very precise elevation profile with underground information
All of this is conveniently contained in a single file. You can also order the corresponding digital maps (1.8 cents per square kilometre). You will receive these in the RichTrack file (double-click on the file to open the map and RichTrack in the RichTrack software at the same time).
IMPORTANT: To open the data, please download our free RichTrack Factory software, which is available free of charge from www.bike-gps.com can download. The software allows you to view and print the roadbook and elevation profile and download the GPS tracks and waypoints to all common GPS devices (Garmin, VDO, MyNav, Xplova).
We wish you lots of fun with the new touring system from BIKE and
bike-gps.com
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