RJMang
Cruising
- Jul 19, 2013
- 20
- 4
I'll be on my (moderately loaded) touring bike, day 6, going from the Hirayu Hot Springs area to Matsumoto. I've mapped out two route options:
- option A) via route 158 down to the Matsumoto river valley. This is about 65 km and 775 mt of climbing, but there are a lot of tunnels
- option B) via the Norikura Skyline (route 5) and then route 84 until I meet up with route 158 in option (A). This is 95 km and 1550 mt of climbing, and no tunnels until I hit route 158
If I wasn't on my touring bike, I would definitely take option B, and may still.... does anyone have any knowledge of either these routes?
(my noted elevation gain is less than what's stated in RWGPS as sites which rely on Google for accumulated elevation gains do not accurately consider tunnels, which I manually subtracted)
- option A) via route 158 down to the Matsumoto river valley. This is about 65 km and 775 mt of climbing, but there are a lot of tunnels
- option B) via the Norikura Skyline (route 5) and then route 84 until I meet up with route 158 in option (A). This is 95 km and 1550 mt of climbing, and no tunnels until I hit route 158
If I wasn't on my touring bike, I would definitely take option B, and may still.... does anyone have any knowledge of either these routes?
(my noted elevation gain is less than what's stated in RWGPS as sites which rely on Google for accumulated elevation gains do not accurately consider tunnels, which I manually subtracted)