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When I got up in the morning and looked through outside
of the window, it was cloudy. It might be an ominous presentimentc However,
the east sky was bright, so I thought it was to fine in the afternoon. I
had to go back to Schlieren once that day. It is about 170km from Sedrun
to Schlieren. I thought that I could get there by noon. About 7:30 A.M,
I had breakfast and checked out at 9:00P.M. It was really coming to go over
one of the pass of the Swiss Alps. I started the engine of Kawasaki GPX
600R. Sedrun is already 1400m above sea level and I would go up to about
600m higher place. There were many hairpin curves and I rode to up on the
steep road to the top of the Oberalp pass. When I got the top, it was still
cloudy, but I took a picture feeling like the conquest of an unclimbed peak.
It was really the first conquest of a pass of the Swiss Alps for me. |
There were some hotels around
the peak and there was a small lake on the over side of the peak. After
I felt great impression and looked the flowers for a while, I started to
go to a town called Andermatt, where is west under the Oberalp pass. I rode
the side of the lake and went down many hairpin curves. Then, I was surprised
because I saw the famous train called Glacier Express, which ran up on the
very steep railway. Andermatt is the small town and many higher mountains
around there. Andermatt is like a "Crossing road of the Alps".
So it has been of strategic importance for a long time. I turned right at
Andermatt and went to north on R2. After that, the road was getting down
a little and I saw something great. It was a ravine. It is Schollenen ravine.
It moved my heart and I said "Bloody amazingc" in spite of myself.