January 17^th 2010

Grisons region is geographically the largest canton in Switzerland and an absolute scenic highlight. Whether in the lower Rhine valley with its Grand Canyon, the upper Rhine valley, the Rhaetian Alps, nowhere the contrasts are so nice and beautiful to see. If it we have rainfall in Domleschg county near the village Thusis, no problem, just ride across the ridge of Rhaetian Alps over down into the province Ticino or Engadine and you will have the best sun shines.

There is no region that has to offer so many beautiful passes in a heap, which are lined up as pearls on a pearl necklace crisscross over the Alps main massif. This is why the area carries the name - the land of thousands valleys and lakes.

The region begins on the right hand side with the Reschen pass that offers beside the fact to be the lowest crossing of the Alps only a lake with a sunken church. Then it reaches over the territory of the valley of Livigno, over the Engadine and Grisons with Chur as the capital. We have deliberately not laid out the little prick roads and trails on the map. These you will find only when you deal with the general map (Generalkarte) with its scale of 1:200,000 in the evening. We travel in this area now for over 30 years and still find more absolute highlights. Or do you know how to get through the one-way road tunnel up to the Zerveila storage lake? Have you ever been in Juf? The highest, permanently inhabited village in the Alps. Or have you ever been in the hot springs located in Andeer and watch the sun go down in the outdoor pool at the San Bernardino? Or do you know the Lago di Lei, where you ride through a tunnel which passes under the state border from Switzerland into Italy to Lago di Lei the biggest storage lake in Switzerland, or .......

CH-7428 Glas/Tschappina

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GPS N46°40’39” E009°20’47”

Alpine pass name period opened altitude from - to driving time distance Albula Pass July - October 2.312m/7.586ft Tiefencastel - La Punt Chamues 45 min 40km/24.9mls Bernina Pass the whole year 2.330m/7.645ft Pontresina - Poschiavo 40 min 33km/20.5mls Flüela Pass June - October 2.383m/7.818ft Davos Dorf - Susch 30 min 26km16.2mls Forcola di Livigno June - November 2.315m/7.595ft Livigno - Pontresina 40 min 34km/21.1mls Julier Pass the whole year 2.284m/7.494ft Tiefencastel - Silvaplana 47 min 43km/26.7mls Maloja Pass the whole year 1.815m/5.955ft Castasegna - Silvaplana 38 min 33km20.5mls Ofenpass (Pass dal Fuorn) the whole year 2.149m/7.051ft Santa Maria Val Müstair - Zernez 40 min 35km/21.8mls Passo di Foscagno the whole year 2.291m/7.517ft Livigno - Isolaccia 34 min 29km/18.1mls Reschenpass the whole year 1.508m/4.948ft Nauders - Malles Venosta 31 min 26km13.1mls San Bernardino Pass May - October 2.065m/6.775ft Hinterrhein - San Bernardino 24 min 16km/9-9mls Splügen Pass June - November 2.113m/6.933ft Splügen - Chiavenna 56 min 39km/24.3mls Umbrail Pass June - October 2.501m/8.206ft Santa Maria Val Müstair - Bormio 37 min 31km/19.3mls Vereina Alp Transit the whole year 1.463m/4.800ft Klosters/Selfranga - Sagliains/Lavin 37 min 26km/16.2mls

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