Scenery puts it in the "top ten" of European mountain roads. Big views to distant snowy peaks, close to above-tree-line fields and cows, down to pretty valley . . . and more from this "balcony" road above Zell am Zee. The "balcony" views are sustained for at least 10km, which is much longer than most mountain roads. But it's a long steep climb to get up from the valley to this view road. I think the way to get the best views with the least work is by doing the section between Aschau and Hippach. For more details see www.roberts-1.com/b/x/at. After the initial main climb up from Aschau I tried continuing the climbing north toward Zirmstadl, but it didn't seem like what I was looking for, so I turned around and then continued south, and the riding and views thru Hirschbichlalm + Melchboden were indeed what I was looking for, and then the descent to Hippach was fun for me and very pretty. The route here is the data from my GPS while riding it, filtered to get the track under 500 points. Not checked by me since 2009.by AmericanTourist
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