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4 SWISS CANTONS
We are about to make a beautiful trip with the friends of the motoclub: it can remember the turn of St. Gottardo but this time there we push more to north, touching 4 Swiss cantons and we will cross the border of the glacier of the thick one of the Dammastock!
We will spend the night in a hostel of the youth, correct choice in how much we combine a really beautiful and well kept place with one really contained expense; the trip of going is the usual history in highway up to the Most greater lake for then to enter the Canton Ticino and then to climb on the mountains!
And after the footsteps we will return through the Sempione and, after having crossed the whole val of Ossola, we will take back the highway up to house.
As usual a small description push on the run, but I already tell you that it doesn't make worth, and also the photos don't make her majesty of the panorama.
386 km.
We find us of good morning to Grugliasco with the friends of the motoclub, looks for some air and without wasting time we depart in direction Milan knowing that we owe us to sip the whole highway up to the Most greater lake.
The Turin Milano is the usual ashamed yard but we is able there to relax a few on the Gravellona Toce that we cross up to it ramification for Varese; from here we go out to Vergiate and we aim toward the lake: attention to the government one up to Luino because the panorama is beautiful but the fixed autoveloxes don't miss!
Luino is a shine: the city, the lake, would not know how to choose! out we stop hardly there in a cafe on the long lake to taste the beauty of the place.
We are by now in Switzerland and we don't make even I count of it if not for the proverbial cleaning and order and for the prices of the gasoline, that with an express calculation, notices to be of 1 European and 09 cents! I don't comment.
We reach Bellinzona where we consume a good lunch and then we leave again in direction Andermatt taking the valley of the san Gottardo, beautiful and green with a myriad of falls on each ridge; reached Airolo we leave the principal manager and we divert to the left toward the footstep of the Novena, the road is always beautiful and taken care of and it climbs through of the panoramas fantastic to the 2400 meters of the footstep of the Novena, so many kms and are not that on the extreme point of the val of Ossola!
The customary photos of this beautiful panorama and down in the valley; have left the Ticino for the canton of the Vallese! We quickly go down in the tall valley of the Gnaws absorbed in forests, the road races right in the middle of splendid countries up to reach Fiesch where quickly we find the hostel where we will spend the night.
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Here is the strong piece! a beautiful ring of 180 kms.
We depart of good morning after a strong breakfast, the hostel has been excellent in every particular, from the reception to the cleaning, to the food and I don't complete the price!
We cross to bashful the road of the day before, we surpass the alternative for the Novena, and we salt for the valley, we find the station of embarkation for the railway tunnel of the Furka, but we salt on rubber! We reach Gletsch and in front of us we find a beautiful bench of black clouds, just on the Furka!
We divert to the left and we begin the scaling to the numerous serpentine of the Grimsell but the road it is wide and very beautiful then try some I lengthen! On the hill the standstill is of obligation: a turn to the botanical garden and that of the fauna reserves us the nice surprise of the marmots almost houseservants!
A pair of photos and resumptions the motorbikes we go down from the other slope; we are in the canton of Berna, we surpass the 3 artificial lakes of the footstep and we cross a hold and long valley that brings us up to Innertkirchen where we take to the right and, crossing a long costone in you vary galleries, we quickly salt to the 2200 meters of the Susten: a show! the immense glacier witnesses us in his shine and the motorbikes don't count him, seem to be away in footstep with a continuous go!
Small standstill in the cafe and we hock the short gallery that is the true footstep and we arrives in the canton of the Uris, another descent in the fund valley, poor pressure! and we are finally in the country of Andermatt (too much traffic for me!) we allow to lose the highway of the piercing of the san Gottardo and the railroad for the Furka and we start over climbing the beautiful valley that brings us to the footstep of the Furka; it is a now a little forgotten because the railway piercing has removed from him a lot of road traffic but the motorbikes I am always there! In point the hotels are closed unfortunately as had found them 3 years ago, sinned!
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From the limit of the pass we can see in distance the Grimsell and his/her tortuous road: what a sight! We go down few curves and there we stop to the point of the belvedere on the glacier of the Rodano and we are not able whether to go to visit it through a gallery that comes, dug every year following the course of the glacier: really beautiful! we had not now had never this occasion before, we are inside the Rodano!
Unfortunately the time tightens, after a brief break we take back the motorbikes and we cross the whole beautiful valley up to Briga; is really a sin to leave the green alpeggis and to throw ourselves in the traffic and I believe that also the time knows it as the Sempione and Italy there they welcome with a grey and cloudy sky.
They are around 323 the kms that separate us from house, we overcome the throats of Gondo and his precipices, we reenter in Italy in the town of Varzo and accordingly in val of Ossola, that we cross for all of it length until to take in an oppressive heat the highway that unfortunately will bring us home!
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