Gorge, Museum, and Ride

Sigmund-Thun Gorge

First an update on last night's bike problem. It turned out not to be an empty tank, as we discovered when we filled up this morning and Rob calculated that there had been sufficient gas remaining (3 liters or so) when the engine died. So apparently it's our old die-in-the rain problem, where some engine part gets wet and needs to dry out before we can restart the bike. Rob is stumped. So maybe the solution is to avoid rain, which we barely succeeded in doing this evening.  More on that later.


The weather report suggested a 60% chance of rain, but the morning seemed relatively clear, so we decided to visit a nearby gorge that our pension host recommended.  So back to Kaprun and a walk through the Sigmund-Thun gorge.  Very impressive with heavy water flow and dramatic drops.  At the top of the gorge we chose to walk around the reservoir and then returned to the entry point, which was also the Kaprun electricity plant.  We looked at the exhibits (all in German) and the powerhouse.  This is plant which produces power from the reservoirs that we toured two days ago.  All are connected.

Rob remembers coveting one of these

After a quick Spar Market stop we rode into town for our picnic and then to our number 2 activity for today-- Votter's Vehicle Museum, located in a basement extension to his hotel in Kaprun.  The collection covered historic cars, motorcycles, and various other vehicles.  It highlighted Austrian made vehicles but included other European makes. 


Back to Zee am See for a brief stop to pick up our laundry and take a break.  Then off to explore more local valleys.  Rob had selected a fine 100 mile loop ride beginning with a surprisingly fine dead end valley.  Fine weather for most of the ride but the dark clouds gathered and we barely made it back to the hotel at 8:15 before the deluge arrived.