Gotthard

115km, 3600m drop, 3 passes in one day!

After a looooong and excausting hillclimb we finally did it and reached the top of the St. Gotthard Pass. We where proud and very exited after that wet, cold and very steep trip with an average of 18 km/h. We met some nice people on top of the mountain. ...

... members of the legal department of a company called AlpTransit and to tour the construction of the world's longest tunnel, the Gotthard Tunnel Project.  This is a project that is sponsored by the Swiss government, and is creating a 57k (actually two ...

A fantastic and very scenic route. ...

We finally wresteled him down. Human 1 - Mountain ZEROOOOOOOOO ...

... ve ünlü St Gotthard tünelini geçtik.Gotthard Tüneli, 24 km uzunluğuyla Dünya'nın en uzun karayolu tünelidir. Gotthard Tüneli Almanya-İsviçre karayolu üzerinde bulunmaktadır. Aslında tek parça olarak 17 km lik bir tünel ...

... the bus back to Freiburg. We were on the road by 7 pm, and we made one stop for coffee and a bathroom break just after the Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland, and then it was back on the road. We made it home at 12:15, and managed to catch the last bus back ...

... 's Chapel), indicating that quite a substantial settlement must have existed in the area. Around 1220, the opening of the Gotthard pass further south created new impetus for growth, with merchants and travellers setting sail from Luzern for the long ...

... along the backroads- often unable to tell where one village ends and the next begins.  Our twisty, winding route took us trough the Gotthard Pass -bypassing the Gotthard tunnel- a far more scenic route- but we had also been interested in seeing the ...

... which we highly suggest reading some information on - nerd or not, this thing is really cool http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel We got there and had a short presentation then dressed up in our orange jump suites, our hardhats, ...

... CH!) and their 13th century struggles against the nasty Habsburgs. Once through the claustrophobic 16 km tunnel deep under the St Gotthard Massif (believe it or not, two more tunnels are under construction in other areas that will be more than double ...

... side of the tunnel and they had closed it so we could breath some fresh air while we waited. Then came the 10 mile Gotthard tunnel - all uphill. It was a white knuckle ride; half way through we realised that we had both been sitting without saying a ...

... mountain tops.  It finally cleared around Bellinzona on the Swiss side, just in time to get stuck in traffic at the Gotthard tunnel.  It's a 17 km tunnel through the mountain on the main motorway, where lanes of traffic have to merge into one ...