Skate & Rail Ultra 2012 Day 2 29 July
Rheinfelden (GER) - Altikon an der Thur (CHE), 115 km
We crossed the river Rhein three times and the border between Germany and Switzerland five times.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012, route map made by Michael Seitz.](imgsru12/sru12_02_map_m-seitz.jpg) Map used by courtesy of Michael Seitz.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8797.jpg) Breakfast at Schloss Beuggen.
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![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8802.jpg) Leaving Schloss Beuggen.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8804.jpg) Leaving Schloss Beuggen.
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![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8861.jpg) Approaching the bridge in Bad Säckingen that leads over to Switzerland.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8865c.jpg) The swan didn't like Otto, ...
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8866.jpg) ...it didn't like Martin...
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8868.jpg) ...and it didn't like me.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8874.jpg) The bridge from Bad Säckingen (Germany) that leads over to Stein (Switzerland).
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8877.jpg) View from Stein to Bad Säckingen.
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![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8959c.jpg) Lunch.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8962.jpg) Rheinfall in Schaffhausen.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8969.jpg) Downhill in Schaffhausen, using the escort car as brake.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8980.jpg) Rheinfall in Schaffhausen.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_8987.jpg) Rheinfall in Schaffhausen.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_9006.jpg) Schaffhausen.
![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_9011c.jpg) Schaffhausen.
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![Skate & Rail Ultra 2012](imgsru12/sru12_02_9089.jpg) At Hubmannfarm in Altikon.
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5-Tage OL 1977, Möhlin, Switzerland
As I had a look on a map after the tour I realised that I had spent a week on the other side of Rhein exactly 35 years ago, 27-31 July 1977.
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In 1977 we had a rented bus that we also used for sightseeing. Here are AK and OJ on the bridge from Stein (Switzerland) to Bad Säckingen (Germany). |
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