{"id":1978,"date":"2010-05-21T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/05\/tremalzo\/"},"modified":"2010-06-01T14:01:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T12:01:45","slug":"tremalzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/05\/tremalzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tremalzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frauke was keen for a long MTB ride so we tackled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tremalzo_Pass\">Tremalzo<\/a>. We left early in the morning from Torbole and headed up into the mountains. It was around 30 degrees at the lake so I was happy when the temperature began to drop a little as we ascended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/viewtowardsriva2lagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"View towards Riva 2 (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/viewtowardsriva2lagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/fraukeridinglagodigardaitaly_1_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Frauke riding (Lago di Garda, Italy) 1 resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/fraukeridinglagodigardaitaly_1_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: View towards Torbole from the track winding along the cliffs. Above middle: Frauke on her bike. Below left: We did not escape the Italian switch-backs. Frauke cursed the mountain as we wound our way slowly up-and-up towards Tremalzo. Below right: The view from Torbole looking into the mountains where we rode.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/thewindingroadlagodigardaitaly_resize-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The winding road (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/thewindingroadlagodigardaitaly_resize-1-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/viewfromtorbolelagodigardaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"View from Torbole (Lago di Garda, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/viewfromtorbolelagodigardaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had lunch at the first pass and tackled a winding single track that took us towards our next pass. The Tremalzo pass was a horrible slog complete with many switch-backs to test one&#8217;s mental toughness. Frauke cursed the mountain. From the top we took a mix of 4WD tracks and single tracks down towards Lago di Ledro and then finally headed back to Torbole by road and tracks that hugged the cliffs above the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful warm weather. Beautiful views. Great riding.<\/p>\n<p>We noshed-up on pasta at our campsite after our seven hour mission.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a map showing our ride. We did the loop clock-wise.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Tremalzo-web.kmz\">GPS Data<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Ride time: 5:56:54 Dst: 60.82 km Avg: 10.22 km\/h Max: 57.41 km\/h<\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frauke was keen for a long MTB ride so we tackled Tremalzo. We left early in the morning from Torbole and headed up into the mountains. It was around 30 degrees at the lake so I was happy when the temperature began to drop a little as we ascended. Above left: View towards Torbole from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","category-lago-di-garda","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}