lenggries bike tour

Daily prices p.p. incl. VAT.

01 May - 15 October

4 hrs. total time, depending on requirements with stopover

From 12 years, minimum height 160 cm

Weather-independent with good clothing

Participants

4 to 9 participants per guide. Bookable for individuals and groups

Issue bikes, adjustment to body size and weight

Break as needed and stop for refreshments if necessary

Experience the beauty of the Bavarian Alps on our e-bike tour Lenggries! 

We start in Lenggries in the Sport-Piraten camp and cycle on varied paths through our beautiful home with breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains and valleys. The route selection is individually chosen on site by our guide and is tailored to the wishes and riding ability of our guests. This tour is therefore also ideal for e-bike novices who want a relaxing ride through nature. 

Before you set off, our guide will explain to you how the e-bike works and how to operate it correctly. Also during the ride you will get useful tips on riding technique to master the trails safely and adapted to your riding ability!

During our e-bike tour Lenggries we also take small breaks as needed to enjoy the idyllic atmosphere. Here you can also take a small snack with you or we stop if necessary in a cozy pub that we pass along the way. The picturesque landscape of forests and mountains also offers some great photo opportunities. 

In addition to the e-bike, we will also provide you with a helmet and a drinks bottle. Please remember to bring your own sneakers and clothing suitable for the weather, as well as a small backpack for snacks, etc. If you have cycling gloves, padded cycling shorts and cycling glasses, we recommend that you bring these as well. 

Book your e-bike tour now Lenggries and experience the beauty of the Bavarian Alps in a unique way!

• Guided e-bike tour Lenggries
• Supervision by bike guide
• Equipment: e-bike, helmet, drink bottle
• Total duration approx. 4.0 hrs.
• lots of fun

Participation requirements

• Minimum age 12 years, minimum height 160 cm
• Persons under 18 years of age only in the company of a parent or guardian or with a written declaration of consent.  DOWNLOAD 
• normal physical condition, no heart or cardiovascular problems
• max. permissible body weight = 130kg
• For safety reasons, persons under the influence of alcohol are not allowed to participate in the e-bike tour Lenggries !

What you should bring

• closed sports shoes
• small backpack for snack, change of clothes
• Functional clothing adapted to the weather
• Sports glasses
• Cycling gloves as required

Additional information

• The e-bike tour Lenggries will take place if the minimum number of participants is 4. Otherwise, an alternative date must be agreed.

Sport-Piraten Camp, Isarstraße 2, 83661 Lenggries

Sure! Please contact us and we will take care of your non-binding reservation until 2 weeks before the date. 

Approximately 90-95% of the tours take place as planned.

Your safety has absolute priority. Sometimes it is only possible to predict at very short notice (1 to 2 days) before the tour whether the circumstances are suitable for the tour. As soon as we are sure whether the tour can take place (or not), we will let you know! 

No, the tickets and vouchers remain valid. In case of cancellation an alternative date will be arranged.

Yes! As long as you book under the same name, you will be assigned to the same group.

For bookings with different names, feel free to let us know.

There is a maximum of 9 participants per guide. If we have several groups for the same time, the guides decide on the spot whether the groups go together or separately.

The minimum number of participants is 4.

The meeting point is our camp in Lenggries. There you will be greeted and given your equipment. The start of the e-mountain bike tour is not far away. If you have special tour wishes, the journey may have to be planned.

Valuables can be locked in your own car or in our camp.

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• Guided e-mountain bike tour
• Equipment: e-bike, helmet
• Sport-Piraten GmbH Camp, Isarstraße 2, 83661 Lenggries, Germany The meeting point is our camp in Lenggries. There the welcome and material handover takes place. The start of the e-mountain bike tour is not far away. If you have special tour requests, you may need to plan the journey to get there.
• Not wheelchair accessible
• Near public transportation
• Not recommended for travellers with back problems
• Not recommended for pregnant travellers
• No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
• Travellers should have a moderate physical fitness level
• This experience requires a minimum number of travellers. If it’s cancelled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
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The Transalpine Adventure Part 1 - Mountain Biking from Lenggries to Passo Stelvio

Aktualisiert: 25. Mai 2021

The First Day

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On the twenty-fifth of June this year, I set out on a cycling trip that undoubtedly overshadows everything I had attempted on a bike before. Just to give you some reference to this story: In May I had bought my first ever mountain bike. I had been a roadie up to that point, but after crashing and wrecking my race bike, I decided to try mountain biking. I bought a 29er Hardtail, the “Count Solo” from the German bike manufacturer ROSE. It seemed sufficient for what I was planning at the time, namely just riding with some friends on our local trails in Munich.

Well, I progressed quickly, and as the lockdown eased off, I went with my buddy Clemens for a more extended tour to some trails at the Walchensee. Well and afterwards we decided on a whim to cross the Alps on our Mountain Bikes, as soon as the Corvid-19 situation would permit us. Well and this is how I had ended up here, on the twenty-fifth of June, five-thirty in the morning and cycling towards the Munich train station. And cycling on the same 29er Hardtail, because I had decided to try it against all advice on the bike I felt most comfortable on with my limited skills.

And actually, the bike held up really well, despite going well beyond what any of its designers had probably intended. It was not even the first bike on this tour to require a repair. That honour goes to the five-year-old full suspension bike Clemens had chosen for the ride. Just the evening prior he had gotten some oil on his brake pads and disk, so while sitting in the early morning train towards the town of Lenggries, we were busy cleaning up his breaks with some sandpaper. We concluded our repairs in time and left the train station in Lenggries with two working bikes, although Clemens brakes would be squealing the entire day due to the sandpaper's different patterns on the pads and the disk.

From Lenggries we first cycled upstream on the “Isarradweg” a long-distance cycleway running from the Isar river's springs in the mountains to the point where the river joins the Danube. But we did not stay on this path for long. After crossing the Isar, we made a right turn towards the Jachenau and Walchensee . The cycleway here is completely topped with asphalt, build directly next to the road and allows for smooth riding on a soft uphill. However, both the smooth-riding and the soft uphill came to an end, when we reached the town of Wieden . After a left turn, crossing the local river, we found ourselves on a gravel-surfaced forest road, climbing quite steeply towards the Rißscharte. It also started to rain softly, just a little drizzle, acting as a coolant while climbing up to the tour's first mountain-pass.

Upon reaching the pass, we got a spectacular view. We had spent the way up on forest roads surrounded by, well, trees so thick we could barely see anything of our path. We even had to push our bikes through a green tunnel created over our trail by dense shrubbery. But then the greens stepped away and suddenly revealed a view of the giant gravel pan below, created by the dry Rißbach , a small Alpine river that is pent up behind a hydropower dam way upstream, its entire water diverted to the Walchensee. Well, what is left at this stage is the empty gravel delta of the river, situated like streaks of grey paint between green hills on either side. This view presented itself to us precisely as we crossed the Rißscharte and started our descend. But we did not ride far downhill. Some thoughtful individual had put a bench here on the mountain, just in the perfect spot to have a little break and enjoy the view. The rain had stopped at this point, so we took the opportunity to enjoy a tasty power gel. Well enjoy is maybe not the right word, but at that time I was not as sick of them as I am now, after eating nothing but power gels and some packaged salted nuts for lunch ten days straight.

After our break, we went to the first single trail of the tour, and straight away found ourselves a little outmatched. The trail was steep, narrow, with sharp turns. These turns required the ability to move your back wheel while stationary with the front rim. And neither of us knew how to do that. Well and added on to that was a precipice always looming directly to the side of the trail. Any mistakes would inevitably lead to us tumbling down an almost vertical mountainside. So we took it slow, dismounted frequently and tried to move our back wheel over only on those turns we felt comfortable taking a fall on. And actually due to the sheer frequency this move was required the whole thing was quite an efficient training session. Before we had arrived at Vorderriß, Clemens had already gotten the hang of it. I was still struggling, since my frame was somewhat longer and my wheels larger (he uses a 26er) but never the less we arrived at the bottom of the valley with only two minor crashes, both our bodies intact and our spirits high. After crossing the Isar river again, we had a somewhat unique experience, cycling through the dried-up river bed of the Rißbach. It worked quite well in some places, but in others, we had to dismount again and push as the gravel was so loose we got no traction on the wheels. Anyways, after arriving on the other side, it was time for another steep forest road, this time climbing towards the Soiernlakes.

The monotony of grinding up those roads only got disrupted once, when the gravel road deteriorated into narrow singletrack. This so-called Soiernweg is quite popular with mountain bikers, although most ride it downhill not the other way round. However, it is possible in both directions, so we got some more trail kilometres under our wheels. At one section the mountainside had crashed down on the path, requiring us to dismount and push our bikes again for a few meters, but soon afterwards we reached another forest road in perfect condition. However, the friendly and easy ways concluded once we had reached the end of the forest road, located at the auxiliary cable lift up to the Soiernhaus . From here on out riding was no longer possible. We had about three kilometres and five-hundred meters of elevation gain in front of us, which would have been an easy enough hike, were it not for those bikes we had to somehow bring up with us.

We got some strange looks, and some funny comments from the hikers passing us by, while we struggled to part push and part carry our bikes up this steep hiking trail. The path is actually beautiful, passing up the mountain next to a huge waterfall. Still, we had no eye for the landscape, partly because we were busy muttering curses under our breath, partly because sweat was dripping into them.

Halfway up we had reached the Soiernlakes and took a short break on a freshwater fountain. The second half up to the so-called Jägersruh (Literally: Hunters Rest) was even more difficult. The path rose steeper and steeper, being in some places covered with large boulders, or thick loose gravel. We actually started to worry. If the descend on the other side would be of a corresponding character, we would probably have to carry down the path, as we could not imagine riding such a thing. Now is probably a good a time as any to admit, that we did not know one part of our planned route, and we had created it by loosely connecting some sections marked as a highlight on Komoot. Well, the other side of the mountain was marked as a highlight, and we stayed hopeful.

As it turns out, we were right to do so. The trail descending from the Jägersruh towards Mittenwald was the first highlight out of many to come. Sloping gently down, and running along the mountainside, it is well-maintained singletrack that is just so fun to ride. While the difficulties never rose beyond my comfort level, in the first section, and the stunning scenery is truly breathtaking, the trail is nevertheless not without its pitfalls. And that I mean in the most literal sense. The path, barely wider than your wheel in places, leaves little room for error, as just to your left-hand side is an abyss. The steep mountainside drops multiple hundred meters, almost vertical. And due to the height, the mountainside consists mostly of rocks, with some small patches of grass in between. Even the slowest of falls would lead to severe injuries here. And while riding this path at speed, time and again there are large loose rocks, that can catapult your wheels left and right if hit at the wrong angle, and in fact multiple times I had to catch my front wheel after a sudden jerk had it hurling towards the edge.

But the biggest scare I received a little later. My wheel got turned in to the side by an unfortunate rock. The speed was to low to go over the bars, so I just stopped and was standing there graciously and stationary on my no longer moving pedals. Well only for a few milliseconds until I realised I was slowly falling to the left. I put my feet on the ground, but momentum had already gotten the better of me. It would not be a far fall, but with the bike between my legs making all attempts to roll it of fruitless and the rocks on the mountainside, I was already preparing for a painful experience. At last minute I grabbed by reflex after the shrubbery growing on my right. On the first attempt, the branches I had gotten broke, but I got a hold of it on the second try and stopped myself from tumbling down the mountainside head first.

The scariest thing about this was that it had happened in complete silence. The three or four seconds it took from starting to fall to turning it into a very ungracious dismount I was too terrified to produce any sounds. Just a few meters in front of me, my buddy would not have realised the situation until I would have been way down the mountainside. Anyways after this experience, we took it a little slower.

The trail soon required another short uphill portage, but after that, it was only downhill. Also, the character changed. The path was now filled with more technical and steeper rock sections, but the difficulty increased the mountainside smoothed off, making a fall less consequential. We finally could relax a little, and even got some small jumps in on the last section of trail, but we also realised that we were physically spent. At this point, we had been on the road for longer than nine hours, with only a few gels and some salted nuts and our bodies energy reserves were drained. So we were actually quite happy once we had reached a forest road leading us down the mountain, even though we could not descend all those had worked for meters of elevation on a trail. Even as we discussed the lack of trail, shortly before reaching Mittenwald, we found one more path, quite easy compared to everything we had ridden this day, but we took it as a sweet dessert to our first day.

Upon arriving in Mittenwald, we went more or less directly to our hotel, took a shower and ate dinner. I was walking funny because my legs were so strained, and Clemens had a bad case of the saddle sores, but after all, we were happy to be on the road and looking forward to our next day.

The Second Day

Our first day had started with sunshine and blue skies. Our second day started with thunderstorms. While riding, again along the Isar Long-Distance Cycleway , we could hear thunder cracking over our heads. And this was not even the largest source of discomfort for us. Those honours were occupied by the relentless rains drenching us, despite our rain gear. After passing the town of Scharnitz , the weather slowly improved, causing us to stop and get out of our jackets. But all hopes happened to be in vain. Just as we had reached our next town of Seefeld , the rain started again. From here on out it was uphill still towards the village of Mösern and even though we had barely 1200 m of elevation we were basically able to touch the clouds with our hands, so close they passed over our heads. In Mösern it was time for the first trail of our tour. We had not previously planned to take this one because I could not identify promising singletrack on Komoot during my preparation.

But once we passed the trailhead, we immediately realised that we had found a good one just by chance. This path followed the St. Jakobs Long-Distance Hiking Trail . For this reason, I would like to caution you about this trail, as it is likely swarmed with hikers on sunnier days. And since the entire thing is mainly a hiking trail, I would like to urge you: be kind and careful with the hikers, solely in the interest of Mountain bikers' public image. The trail on its own, however, was great fun. An entirely flowy affair, leading us down towards the Inn River without a single section to difficult and necessitating us to dismount. The whole thing was just the experience we needed as an ego-boost after the long and arduous carry sections of the previous day.

Arriving at the bottom of the valley, we stumbled upon a truly magical break spot, with some small benches next to a tiny waterfall. The whole thing seemed right out of a fantasy novel, but we continued without much of a break because the weather was still overcast. Shortly afterwards we arrived in the town of Telfs , where we promptly went for the next supermarket. I had prepacked all the energy gels, energy bars, and snacks I intended to need for the entire ten days. Clemens had taken the smarter approach and only brought some more unusual items like energy gels. So I waited outside the store, while he was stocking up on sweets and snacks for the next few days. So I was the only one to get first glimpses of the summer sun, shyly peeking out between the clouds. By the time Clemens had gotten back out, it was wholely overcast again.

The next fifteen kilometres towards the town of Silz are barely worth mentioning, except for the fact that we probably could have cycled two kilometres fewer. But I took a wrong turn, missing a bridge over the Inn, but instead of turning around right away, we continued straight in the hopes of finding another bridge. We did not discover another bridge, and after our road concluded with a little ramp directly into the river, we were forced to do, what we should have done right away: Turning around, and returning to the bridge we had missed. Also, close to Silz, we got hit by another downpour. It got so bad that we actually stopped under a highway bridge and decided to have our lunch break right then and there.

But as there was no improvement in sight after we had finished our meal, we decided to continue despite the weather. After leaving Silz, we started our uphill climb on the Wolfsgruben Road . And we got lucky. Only a few turns in on our ascent the clouds began to scatter, and the sun was finally able to breakthrough in all her glory. With high spirits, we continued uphill on the softly sloping asphalt road. But I soon ran into another problem: The gels and energy bars I had eaten all day to keep with my nutrition plan for the tour had a quite violent disagreement with my intestines, and I had to dash the bushes. For the rest of the uphill, I had to battle stomach aches, which did not exactly improve my performance.

Nevertheless, we reached the town of Ochsengarten , although much later than we had planned for. From here on out, we wanted to climb another five hundred meters of elevation towards the Acherkogel , but it turned out a little bit differently. About halfway up the mountain, we could suddenly hear thunder in the distance. We stopped to check our weather app and realised that a major thunderstorm would hit us in just about an hour. So we quickly checked our GPS and found what looked like a hiking trail towards our destination for the day. So we promptly cycled there and were met upon arrival with a large “bikes prohibited” sign. We weighed our options, and quickly realised, we did not have any. If we wanted to get off the mountain, we would need to take this trail and hope. Hope that bikes were simply prohibited due to previous incidents with hikers and not because the entire trial would turn into a Via Ferrata halfway down the mountain. And hope that nobody would catch us because riding your mountain bike on prohibited trails can carry quite a hefty fine in Austria.

Whatever the reason, we choose to send it downhill on this trail, and it worked out. And the whole thing was quite fun, to be honest. It was crazy steep in places, and the soil posed some challenges. It was all still wet and slippery from the prior rains that day, and the earth was covered with dried twigs, needles, and pine cones, which reduced the already low grip even further. In many places, it was more of a controlled slide downhill, than a ride. In some areas there also happened to be rock slabs just under a small cover of pine needles. In those cases, the controlled slide turned into an uncontrolled one. I also had my third crash during this descent. Although, you could argue it was just a very stylish dismount, as I basically got catapulted over my handlebars but still managed to land on my feet graciously. At the same time, my bike plummeted down the mountainside past me just standing there.

Due to that crash, I had also lost my GPS, but I only realised it a few turns down the mountain, once the adrenaline had left my system. So I had to sprint uphill again for about a hundred meters while cursing myself, only interrupted by now, uncomfortably close, roaring thunders. I found my GPS lying straight in the middle of the trail, praised myself lucky and sprinted downhill again, back to my bike. From this point on it was only a few minutes until we reached the end of the trail. From here on out we continued on the road towards the town of Ötz . Shortly before reaching the city, we found another short urban trail that we used as a shortcut. From Ötz we actually had to ride a little bit in the wrong general direction, because we stayed the night at a Raft Camp in Sautens. There we would basically sleep in the storage shed, but that was no reason to complain. After all, it was a free roof over our head and a welcome break for our credit cards. We had to book all the hotels in advance due to Corvid restrictions and had to use actual hotels instead of the much cheaper mountain refuges that are usually a good option while crossing the Alps. So on this evening, we fell asleep between cupboards full of gear.

The Third Day

We had to get up early the next day. While our accommodation had the advantage of being free, it also had a disadvantage: No breakfast buffet. Now if you have never been on tour like this, I can understand you scruffing at that comment, but let me explain: During my ten days out on the road, I had lost about five kilograms of weight, all the while eating pretty much what I wanted for dinner and breakfast. In the case of dinner, there was more than one day, where we actually ate two main courses and in the case of breakfast, well it is the most important meal of the day. Because it is the last time, you get to eat real food before you have to survive on gels and energy bars for the next ten to twelve hours. And while burning somewhere between five thousand and eight thousand calories every single day, basically skipping lunch every single day, you more or less have to gorge yourself fully in the morning just to have enough reserves to finish the day.

So our first goal was the town of Ötz , where we bought some supplies from a local supermarket and with those supplies cycled towards the shores of the river Ötz to have a picnic. The skies were clear, the sun was slowly rising over the mountaintops, and the weathercast was an “all clear” for the entire day. This actually would be the first day during our tour entirely without rain. Once we had finished our meal, we started our journey, always following the Ötz River Cycleway . The Ötz Valley is actually famous for its structure, meaning that it gains its elevation like a long staircase. The valley is mostly flat until it reaches one of those steps where it rises quite a bit of hight in a very abrupt manner. This suited us well, as it was mostly smooth and relaxed riding, only broken up by short bursts of more exhausting sections.

After crossing the village of Umhausen, we decided to take a small, rather touristic detour and cycle up towards the Stuibenfall , a very famous waterfall in the area. It was actually quite a grind, as the road that led us to the waterfall was quite steep, and still feeling the last two days in my legs, somewhat uncomfortable. But we got rewarded with a beautiful view of the falls. Not that this waterfall is the only fair in the whole valley. In fact, there are plenty of waterfalls visible from the cycleway without such a taxing detour. And other interesting things can be discovered too: We had plenty of close encounters with goats, cattle and sheep when our road led us through their grazing areas. However, I would like to add a word of warning. The cows you can find grazing in the Alps have little in common with those kind-hearted animals you probably know from your local farm. They are outdoors almost year-round and have to brave adverse weather, as well as the occasional predator. While they usually do not attack unless they feel very threatened, there are plenty of cases where hikers or mountain bikers got gored by one of those cows. Do not approach them from behind without making some noise, do not pass to close to them, do not try and pet them and for the love of god never and under no circumstances ever try to approach their calves.

Anyways, we had another exciting encounter, because at the middle section of the Ötz, a part of the river famous amongst whitewater kayakers we met one of those: Ben Orton, a pro paddler, we are both huge fans of was scouting the section, and in fact later that day ran it on pretty much a record high water level. This just goes to show one of the advantages of travelling by bike. You are simply closer to your surroundings, and if you care to stop and listen to those surroundings, you will actually meet a rich and diverse cast of people on the road. And simply put, these meetings greatly enrich your journey.

Soon after we had reached the town of Sölden , that is probably the most known village of the Ötz Valley, at least to mountain bikers, since they have a great bike park. Since we had been cycling on asphalt for pretty much the entire day, we decided to invest a little money, and take the gondola up to the bike park's top. From here on, we planned to use three different trails to connect back onto the road leading to our goal: Vent . The whole thing saved us probably about two hundred meters of elevation and a few kilometres but got us a super awesome trail to ride down. So in my book that was well-invested money. The singletracks we used, three in total, were rated in order: black, red, black. Especially the first trail we started out on the so-called Nene Trail was very interesting to us, as it was actually rated as one of the most challenging trails in the entire park. But after just a few meters we suddenly realised, that it was in difficult pretty much equal to some of the paths that we already had ridden down, and that was actually a huge confidence boost.

But I also have to say that riding bike park trails is a somewhat different experience from alpine trails. Even on those more nature-like trails we used, you could tell that they had been shaped for mountain bikes. Those kinds of ”impossible to ride over” features that you have to deal with on hiking trails from time to time, ranging from simple logs over the path to vertical drops with tiny stairs in the side, are simply not present in the bike park. But we did not mind, as it meant that we could ride more and longer sections. After reaching the Glaisachalm on the red-rated connection trail, we could drop into the second black-rated descent of the day. And that was quite a number. It started super flowy and fast over the grass-grown mountainside but then turned into another steep technical trail, with only one small detriment. Many many small ravines are cutting over the trail, each requiring a short manual to clear them comfortable. Many of those are the natural result of tiny rivulets, but I suspect that quite a few have been cut on purpose, aiming to reduce mountain bikers' speed. Those got a little bit tiring, to put it mildly. After Clemens had managed the entire second day without incident, it was now his turn to crash and jump over his handlebars.

We reached the road in high spirits, and started the last climb of the day, towards the town of Vent . We had a few nerve-racking experiences, as our navigation system led us into the road tunnels, not intended for cycling traffic. But in all those tunnels, we had kerbs broad enough to stay off the road directly, which was really important, since we had not brought any kind of bike light. Despite those challenges, we could reach Vent without incidents (although close to Vent, I was able to pet a pony smaller than my bike, which had me quite happy and excited for some time) and claimed our hotel room. Because it was only about five pm at the time, and the sun still shining we decided to wash our clothes in the hotel tub, to reduce the stench of cold sweat at least a little. After a nice dinner, we tucked into bed, where I had some bizarre dreams, mostly concerning the next day.

The Fourth Day

I had dreamt that there would be some avalanches during our ascent towards the Rifugio Similauen , making it impossible for us to reach the mountain pass. Well, I probably dreamt the whole thing due to the anxiety-inducing nature of this particular pass. It would bring us up to 3000 meters of elevation, and during the last few days, it became apparent to me, that there would still be snow at this height. But also the Similauen was the only pass we could take. The Timmelsjoch, the second pass out of the Ötz Valley, was at the time closed for maintenance. And this meant that if we could not pass here all of our plans would be in shambles. It would take us at least another day to get to a different pass, just one valley over. But we had already pre-booked all of our hotels due to the Coronavirus Situation. So if it indeed came to that, we would probably need a totally different route to the Lago di Garda, leaving us with a lot of lost money in unused hotel reservations and rebookings.

I had worried about this scenario pretty much the entire third day, as you could see the snow cover on the mountains grow larger and larger, the further we progressed up the Ötz Valley. So my dream was probably a result of this anxiety. But when I really started to worry, was when we passed a sign on the first meters of our ascent towards the mountains, that announced: “The way to the Martin-Busch-Hütte is not passable for mountain bikers, due to a rockfall.” Well at this point we were already committed to this mountain pass. We would make our attempt, and if it failed we would need to rethink the whole adventure anyways.

Luckily for us, the gravel road leading towards the Martin-Busch Hütte at 2500 meters of elevation had been cleared just the day prior, and we could actually cycle up the whole thing. I later learned that the way between Vent and the Martin Busch Hütte is quite infamous for its frequent rockfalls and avalanches, and especially during winter ascents of the Similauen is actually considered the most dangerous part of the route. But we did not know that and still reached the Martin-Busch Hütte in good health. From here on out we would have to push and carry up our bikes for the next 500 meters of elevation until we would reach the Refugio Similauen and our mountain pass. We pushed our bikes up for about half the height, because there, with our goal already in sight the snow started.

It is important to note that these are not only snowfields but actually, there is a glacier beneath the snow. And that leads to some separate challenges. For example, you should know the way. In our case, we had both a GPS track and good waymarking as well as a well-trodden path following them. But still, crossing a glacier is inherently dangerous, even more so if you do it while carrying a mountain bike. This also seems to be as right a place as any to talk about shoes. Both Clemens and I were using alpine-rated trail-running shoes for this trip. It basically means that the sole of a hiking boot has been slapped onto a standard running shoe. In my opinion, those kinds of shoes are the only practical option if you should ever plan to follow our exact track.

Anyways they had an excellent grip on the wet and soggy snow, allowing us to cross the glacier without crampons. Which is another thing in a long list of random conditions we probably should have never counted on? But we reached the top of our mountain pass and took in the view. Behind us, snow left and right the snow-covered peaks of the Similauen Mountain Range and in front of us a long descent down towards the valley. And at the bottom of the valley, the Lago di Vernagt , a dammed lake of unnaturally deep blue. While preparing for our downhill, we were treated like some kind of celebrities by the hikers all around us. The Similauen is a very popular mountain for all types of hikers, and there is always a little bit of traffic here. And most of those hikers came out from the hut, to talk with us and probably find out what kinds of crazy guys had just carried their bikes up a glacier.

The descent on the other side was on the south slope of the mountain, and therefor free of snow, but sadly we could not mount our bikes right away. The first 300 meters of descent we could barely ride anything. Large parts of this trail will be ridable for really advance riders, but always with the threat of a deadly fall on the smallest mistake. But once we had cleared this section, we got rewarded for our efforts, with an awesome downhill. The whole thing was a great mix out of technical and flowy sections, all the while with the tremendous alpine scenery. We each had one crash. Clemens a soft fall with slow speed, and for me, it probably was the most painful one of the tour. I got catapulted over my handlebars and landed chest first on the grassy slope. It would have been a soft landing, but for the GoPro, I had mounted to my chest, that made the whole thing feel like I had landed on a stone. I actually saw stars at that point and needed a short break to regain composure.

We descended the rest of the mountain without problems, but after reaching the town of Vernagt, we had another problem: My brake pads were almost finished. So, descending the road towards the Etsch Valley , was actually more frightening, because I fully expected my brake pads do violently disassemble any second. When we concluded our last descent, there were only seconds of braking power left. But that was no problem, as the final twenty kilometres towards our Hotel in Schlanders were either flat or in a softly sloping uphill.

And our spirits were high anyway because we were finally in Italy. During our descent already we had stopped at one point, to take in the smell. All my childhood long we had driven over the Alps to vacation in Italy and if you did to you might know what I talk about. You get in the car, and Germany's air is cold, familiar and not that special. Then after driving for hours upon hours, crossing the Brenner and only breathing the air-conditioned air in your cars for hours, you get out of the car somewhere in Italy and get hit by a wall of sensations. The atmosphere is hot and sultry, smelling of flowers and faintly salty from the distant oceans and suddenly, like a switch being turned in your brain, you are on vacation. Well descending the mountain we got hit with the same smell and feels, and while we cycled along the beautifully maintained Etsch Cycleway, we talked about this and that, and mostly what we would eat that evening.

As it turned out, we ate both pasta and pizza to celebrate our arrival and motivate us. Despite being really tired, we still had some work to do. The hotel we stayed at catered to mountain bikers and was equipped with a complete workshop available free of charge for all guests. So we took the chance to conduct some much-needed repairs. We both had to true our wheels, Clemens brake disk was bent, and my gears needed some fine-tuning. Also, the glacial snow had really done a number on our bikes. In case you did not know: This kind of snow is packed with tiny rock particles that work wonders in removing oil and lubrication from your bike, so we had to reapply some of those. It probably took us about an hour, before our bikes were ready for the road again and we could go to sleep.

The Fifth Day

The fifth day will probably be the shortest text of the entire tour because on this day we did nothing but cycle uphill. We set out from Schlanders early in the morning, after an absolutely excellent breakfast and followed the Etsch River towards Laatsch . Nothing extraordinary happened here, except that we stopped at a good bike shop in Schlanders to top our emptied stores of brake pads. Also, we got hit by torrential rains close to Prad am Stilfser Joch and had to take a short break under a bridge. After passing through Laatsch, we turned left towards the Swiss border and the Umbrail Pass . Cycling up the Umbrail Pass was probably amongst the most prolonged and most painful experiences in my entire life. We had more than 2500 meters of elevation to accomplish in pretty much a single climb, and I was suffering all the way up. After about two-thirds of the mountain, I needed a more extended break and started to worry about my performance.

Anyways we pushed forward and even had some close encounters with the marmots living next to the road. After we had made it up all the way to the Stilfser Joch / Passo Stelvio, we decided to use a bike taxi for the repeat ascent we had planned for the next day. And after this long day of cycling and grinding, we tucked into our beds, at almost 3000 meters of elevation looking forward to the trails we would ride the next day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was the first part of my two-part blog covering our Transalpine Mountain Bike Tour. The second half has released and covers the route from the Stilfser Joch up to the Lago di Garda . There will also be some videos on our YouTube channel if you would like to get a closer look at the trails. If you do not want to miss when we publish those, please subscribe to our Mailing List below, or to our YouTube channel.

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Transalp day tour - Lenggries Achensee Brenner Bolzano

Wolfram rated this “very good“

A beautiful tour with many scenic highlights, which can also be completed in one day by ambitious amateur cyclists. The route has been chosen so that the designated cycle routes are used where they are in good condition and do not mean a significant loss of time, otherwise main roads and especially side roads have been favoured.

Basically, the route is mainly uphill for around 120 kilometres to Brenner and then downhill for 95 kilometres to Bolzano with a few short but sometimes steep climbs. This is a good thing for amateur cyclists, as it means that tired muscles are no longer so strained.

If you are in good shape, you can take the bus back to Munich in the evening. If you don't like the time pressure, book an overnight stay at your destination. If you prefer a more cosy pace, you can look for an additional overnight stay in Tulfes, for example.

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Lights on the bike are recommended, as the tour leads through several tunnels.

Keep your eyes open, as the cycle routes south of the Brenner Pass have some sudden sharp bends and steep bumps.

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In Lenggries, the route initially follows local roads east of the B13 towards Bretonenbrücke bridge and then turns left shortly before this bridge towards Fleck. From here, follow the B13 or the parallel cycle path to the junction of the shortcut to the eastern end of the Sylvenstein dam (cycle path asphalted or concreted). At the top, turn left (eastwards) onto the B307 towards Austria and immediately after the border turn right onto the Achensee federal road (181). Here too, use the parallel cycle paths as you wish, but be careful, because shortly before the junction to the 181, the cycle path turns into a rough gravel road with a steep incline.

Now head south on the 181 until shortly after the "Tirolerland" inn, a local road branches off to the right towards Achenkirch. Follow this road through the village to the eastern shore of Lake Achensee and ride along the old lakeside road for almost the entire length of the lake until the road rejoins the 181 at an obtuse angle. Now follow the 181 for just under 4 kilometres and then turn right towards Maurach. Continue through the village until the road to Jenbach is signposted on the right. Follow this road steeply downhill to Jenbach and cross the village. At the roundabout just before the motorway, continue straight on across the motorway and the Inn to the main road 171 and then straight on to St. Margarethen. If you prefer the Inn Valley cycle path, turn east at the roundabout between the motorway and the Inn and after approx. 150m turn onto the cycle path heading west at an acute angle.

Continue south, parallel to the 171, on narrow roads to the centre of Schwaz and then over the third (and last) Inn bridge in the town onto the cycle path, which runs on the northern side of the Inn and is signposted with small green "Radweg 2" signs. At Pill, you return to the southern side of the Inn and cycle along the 171 through the villages of Weer, Wattens and Volders. If you like, you can also cycle one bridge further west and then cross the Inn directly to Weer. After Volders, just before the motorway, turn left onto a small road uphill towards Tulfes with some quite steep climbs, but these are always manageably long. After a total of around 400 metres of ascent and descent but basically at the same altitude (approx. 1000m), the route makes a quarter circle from the northern slope to the western slope of the Patscherkofel through the villages of Rinn, Sistrans and Patsch. On the western slope, the route continues in the same way through the various hamlets of the municipality of Ellbögen to Pfons and then down to Mühlbachl to the Brennerbundesstraße (182).

On the 182, initially moderate, towards the end much steeper through Gries and past the Brennersee lake to the Brenner and the village of Brennero. Now follow the Brennero state road (SS12) on the Italian side until the cycle route on the old railway line is signposted approx. 1km after the end of the village and branches off to the right. Now follow this wonderfully developed cycle path to Gossensaß, finally round some sharp bends and over short climbs. In Gossensaß, cross the SS12 and take the cycle route on the left-hand side of the road, which bypasses the tunnel on side roads with a short but hearty climb to the hamlet of Oberried. After a short descent, continue on the cycle route parallel to the SS12, which you can also take a shortcut on the main road. In Sterzing in particular, the winding cycle route through the town is not worthwhile unless you want to stop for a bite to eat. Instead, take the SS12 to the roundabout at the end of the town, then turn right at the first exit and after another 200m turn left again onto the now very rewarding cycle route. After a long stretch parallel to the motorway, turn left twice and continue on the cycle route through Stilfes and Niederried on the west side of the motorway until a subway leads left under the motorway to Mitteried and onto the cycle path on the SS12.

Follow the cycle route, sometimes with a surprising route, to Franzensfeste and then above the motorway and railway line, bypass the traffic junction with the turn-off into the Pustertal. Shortly afterwards, the cycle route turns right through a subway under the railway line, but at this point take the left-hand subway under the motorway and then cycle briefly uphill to a roundabout on the SS12. At the roundabout, turn off towards Varn / Brixen and follow the main road downhill into the town. At the second roundabout in the town, take the third exit and turn right onto the signposted cycle route again just before the bridge.

From Bressanone/Brixen, the cycle route is well signposted and basically impossible to miss. When you arrive in Bolzano/Bozen, the bus exit is directly to the right of the cycle route in Via Josef Mayr Nusser, just before the railway subway. Continue to the railway station until the next junction and then turn right twice to Via Guiseppe Garibaldi.

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From Munich with the BOB to Lenggries. Return by train from Brixen or Bozen, from Bozen also Flixbus with bike transport available.

Please note: Bicycle transport on the return journey is limited on all means of transport. Be sure to book in good time.

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Five Boro Bike Tour is pedaling back to NYC this weekend. Here’s what to know.

The TD Five Boro Bike Tour, the nation’s biggest communal bike ride, is returning to the Big Apple this weekend for its 46th iteration through the streets of all five New York City boroughs.

Forecasters are predicting a wet and rainy day on Sunday, May 5, but that won’t stop about 30,000 cyclists from getting on two wheels and pedaling along the 40-mile course, which begins in Manhattan, grazes the Bronx, returns to Manhattan, then travels through Queens and Brooklyn before ending on Staten Island.

The tour, which is organized by Bike New York and supports bicycle education programming, has run every year since 1977 except for 1991, when it lost its original sponsor, and 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first wave of cyclists will begin the tour at 7:30 a.m. in Lower Manhattan, while the sixth and final wave will depart at 10:25 a.m.

Numerous streets will be closed to auto traffic for the tour. Those include Sixth Avenue in Manhattan between Franklin and West 59th streets, the FDR Drive between the Third Avenue Bridge and 63rd Street, the Queensboro Bridge upper level, the Brooklyn-bound span of the Pulaski Bridge, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from Downtown Brooklyn to Bay Ridge, and the lower level of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

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NYC 5 Boro Bike Tour 2024: Will the Verrazzano Bridge be closed on Sunday?

M ay 1—STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The TD Five Boro Bike Tour, the nation's largest charitable bike ride, returns this Sunday, May 5. Cyclists will begin their journey in Manhattan, and cross five major bridges, including the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which will signal to riders that the Ford Wadsworth finish, and the Finish Festival on Staten Island, is near.

The first wave of riders will get started at 7:30 a.m.

Due to the event, hosted by Bike New York, part of the Verrazzano Bridge will be closed for the majority of the day on Sunday.

The Staten Island-bound lower level of the bridge will be closed from 2 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday. The Bay Street exit near the bridge will also be closed from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The Staten Island-bound upper level of the Verrazzano will remain open during the event, and is accessible from 92nd Street and the Belt Parkway entrance ramps.

Drivers are advised that closure times are subject to change and delays are expected.

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Weather forecast for NYC 5 Boro Bike Tour 2024 calls for rain, cool temperatures

• Updated: May. 01, 2024, 11:03 a.m. |
• Published: May. 01, 2024, 11:03 a.m.

The weather forecast for the 2024 TD Five Boro Bike Tour in New York City holds the promise of rain and cooler temperatures. This file photo from Aug. 29, 2021, shows scenes from the TD Five Boro Bike Tour rolling on Staten Island. (Staten Island Advance/Derek Alvez) (Staten Island Advance/Derek Alvez)

• Luke Peteley | [email protected]

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Those looking to enjoy a sunny Sunday bike ride throughout New York City need to soak in those rays while they can. The latest forecasts call for showers to rain on the parade — well, bike tour.

Over 32,000 bicyclists are slated to take to Big Apple roadways on Sunday for the TD Five Boro Bike Tour , the nation’s largest charitable bike ride.

The event provides cyclists with a chance to cruise along city streets across the five boroughs without concern over reckless motorists driving them off the road. While the day is sure to be a joy for many, the weather will not exactly provide a scenic backdrop.

Beginning Sunday morning, showers will sweep into the New York City area and linger throughout the day, according to Bryan Ramsey, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS). At this time, the showers are expected to drop around half an inch of rain across the city, but that figure is subject to change.

“It’s going to start Sunday morning and last until the early night hours, because we’ll have kind of a slow moving system,” Ramsey said. “So the rain will kind of come and go throughout the day. The afternoon hours is when the rain is expected to be at its most persistent.”

While the frontal system looks to bring periods of rainfall, the good news is that cyclists won’t have to worry about dodging bolts of lightning; Ramsey forecasts that the frontal system will only feature showers.

Unfortunately, temperatures do not seem to care for cycling and will also sit below average. Ramsey notes the day’s high will only reach the mid to upper 50s. AccuWeather marks the day’s high at 59, also reinforcing the forecast calling for periods of rain.

On the bright side, winds do not look to pose a threat, Ramsey notes.

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Texas MS 150 Bike Tour Returns To Aggieland

Texas A&M University will once again serve as the finish line for thousands of cyclists riding in the Texas MS 150 when the 40th annual charity bike tour concludes Sunday on Houston Street between Kyle Field and Aggie Park.

The two-day event benefiting people with multiple sclerosis — a condition that damages the body’s nervous system by eroding the protective coating of nerves — will run April 27-28, with a variety of routes beginning in Houston and Austin before converging in La Grange and again in College Station. Texas A&M Transportation Services is advising drivers to anticipate multiple road closures and potential delays beginning early Sunday as the riders make their way through campus.

A section of Lamar Street starting at the bell tower will be closed to drivers throughout the day, while Houston Street will remain closed from George Bush Drive to Joe Routt Boulevard. Riders will make their way down Olsen Boulevard and Old Main Drive before passing the Memorial Student Center and Kyle Field on their way to the finish line. A map of the route through campus, as well as accompanying road closure and parking information, can be found at transport.tamu.edu/ms150 .

Visitors planning to watch the participants finish are invited to park in one of the three nearby garages: Gene Stallings Boulevard Garage and University Center Garage will both charge a flat $10 entry fee, while West Campus Garage charges an hourly visitor rate. Additional parking information is available on Transportation Services’ event parking page .

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Bike MS, which encompasses the Texas MS 150 and a variety of other charity rides across the country, traces its roots to 1980, when the first MS 150 was held in Minnesota. Today, it is the largest fundraising cycling series in the world. Participants in this year’s Texas MS 150 have already raised nearly $7 million to fight multiple sclerosis, with an overall fundraising goal of $9.425 million. More information about the Texas MS 150 and Bike MS is available at events.nationalmssociety.org .

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Amy Grant on the 2022 bike wreck that 'changed everything' and her return to touring

It was a beautiful summer day in July of 2022 when Amy Grant and a friend went on a bicycle ride through Percy Warner Park. She was in the best shape she'd been in since before she had kids.

The singer and friend Mel Cox stopped to take in an overlook when she confided to her friend that she needed to make change in her life.

"I feel spread so thin," she told Cox that day. "I feel like I'm not giving the most energy to my family."

Cox responded, "If you were hit by a bus today, what would matter to you?"

She responded, "My family."

Ten minutes after that conversation, Grant's front bicycle wheel dropped hard into a four-inch deep pothole, sending her catapulting over her handlebars and into an unconscious state that would result in a traumatic brain injury and memory loss. Had it not been for her helmet, the outcome could have been worse.

The only reason Grant remembers any of the pre-wreck conversation is because Cox took the time to write down all the details of the day for Grant when she was ready to read it. It was nine pages of text that Grant didn't read until much later.

Another detail Cox shared with Grant (who still has no memory of that day) was what she said in her hospital room shortly after the wreck.

Cox told Grant that she kept saying over and over in the hospital, "I can't believe I still have all my teeth." Grant had landed on her face and was badly bruised. Then she said something unbelievable.

"I needed this."

The accident, as Grant said during our interview at her home earlier this month, "changed everything."

'I had to re-learn the words to my songs.'

Grant had to relearn how to sing. She had to relearn lyrics to songs she's been singing effortlessly for decades.

"The very first thing I did was I had the Christmas shows with Michael W. Smith," she said. "I couldn't remember... I had to re-learn the words for my songs. I had a teleprompter. My balance was messed up. I was scared to death. I tried to sing a song in soundcheck and it triggered tears and I couldn't stop them. I felt so vulnerable."

She didn't get much more recovery time before having to appear on a national stage as she was being inducted as a Kennedy Center honoree — just five months after her accident.

"I couldn't have done it if I'd had to sing," she remembers. "I'd done a handful of shows and each one felt better, but I did feel like I had worked my way on a treadmill up to about a 3.5-mile walk and I was merging onto the interstate."

It was the understanding of Grant and her longtime manager Jennifer Cooke that there would be no singing or speeches at any of the events. Then at the medallion dinner at the state department the night before the ceremony, each honoree got up with notes to speak.

"Jen is looking at me like, 'dear God, you've got to say something," Grant said, laughing.

"They told us no written speeches," Cooke remembered. "I'm like, she has a freaking brain injury and she has to get up and speak. She has nothing prepared."

What happened next would set the trajectory for Grant's continued healing and recovery. She stood in front of the crowd with no notes and no preparation and spoke just like she would have before her accident.

"She couldn't have written something in advance better than what she said," Cooke said. "It was beautiful and powerful and I remember thinking 'It's ultimately going to be OK.' That makes me cry to this day because during those few Christmas shows, it felt a little different and then that happened and I was like, 'OK. She's still there."

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'Wiggle your toes and speak your truth'

Grant credits Cooke and fellow musician Sheryl Crow with some sage advice that helped her get through the nerves of that impromptu speaking engagement. Remember, among her fellow honorees in the room were George Clooney, Gladys Knight and U2.

Cooke said to Grant before her speech, "Wiggle your toes and speak your truth."

Grant, who can't remember what she said that night, said years ago when she was preparing to speak at her mother's funeral, she told Crow she was afraid she would get choked up while speaking. Crow's response was this: "I'm going to tell you what my mom told me. Wiggle your toes. Just wiggle your toes and it will ground you in the moment that you're in."

Cooke reminded Grant of this before her speech at the Kennedy Center dinner. It worked.

"I did that that day and I tell people all the time, 'if you have to present, whatever it is, if you start getting overwhelmed, just wiggle your toes.' I give the credit to Sheryl."

Trauma can manifest change and recovery takes time

The bicycle accident isn't the only thing Grant has had to overcome in the last four years. During COVID she discovered a birth defect in her heart that required open-heart surgery. In 2022, the bike accident required her to have a shoulder surgery. Then while re-training her voice, her vocal coach noticed a lump on her throat that would ultimately also require surgery right after the Kennedy Center Honors in January of 2023.

The cyst turned out to be non-cancerous, but was growing and affecting her vocal chords. She considers this just another blessing that came from the bike accident, which sent the cyst into "hyper growth" mode so it was discovered and remedied early.

"That cyst was keeping company with my vocal cords and was slowly making it impossible for me to hold pitch to sing. It felt like too much work. Singing wasn't fun anymore. I was trying, but I hated the way I sounded. The sound my vocal cords would make when they rubbed together was the same, but my ability to control it was awful."

After the wreck brought the cyst to her attention and it was removed, Grant said, "It gave me my voice back. How amazing. I'm so grateful for that."

Grant's husband Vince Gill said of Amy, "It didn't matter if it was a heart surgery or a bike wreck, you can't faze her. She's fearless every step of the way. It's pretty inspiring to watch. She's always had that aura around her that's contagious. It's remarkable."

Today Grant is learning to embrace the process of healing and recovery, which she has learned doesn't happen overnight. Both take time and she's taking life a little slower to make sure she creates space to heal. After all, isn't this exactly what she needed when she confided in her friend before the wreck?

"I'm going to enjoy the process of regaining balance. I'm going to enjoy the process of healing. And like for me with singing, my vocal coach Laura said you've got to strengthen the little tiny muscles in your vocal folds. And she said, pick any low note and see how long you can hold it. I went from getting to 'three Mississippi' and now I've got 'eight Mississippi.' The human body is incredible in response to attention."

'The View from Here'

In February of 2024, just two years after her accident, Grant embarked on a 33-city tour that will hit Nashville's Ryman Auditorium for two shows just in time for Mother's Day on May 10-11. It will be the first time in 25 years Grant has headlined a Nashville show outside of her annual Christmas residency at The Ryman.

The show has been billed as a walk down memory lane through her remarkable career. Contemporary Christian music's female pioneer's proverbial mantle of awards boats a whopping six Grammy Awards and 26 Dove Awards (including four Artist of the Year Awards). She was the first CCM artist to have a platinum record, the first to hit No. 1 on the pop charts and the first to perform at the Grammys. 

She has total career album sales in excess of 30 million and over 1 billion global streams. And she isn't done yet.

She has released two new songs “Trees We’ll Never See,” and “What You Heard” that she says will ultimately be part of an entire album she will call "A View From Here" even though its title track has yet to be written. It's her first new music in 10 years.

"So much of my touring life is singing old songs. That's what people want to hear. You can't recreate your musical past. And I love that people still are willing to buy a ticket, and they want to come and join us, and they know the words. But the view from 63 is a lot more in-depth. At this stage of the game, to me it's so much more meaningful to fall in love with the process. You know, if I fall in love with the process of cooking, it doesn't matter who is at the table."

Melonee Hurt covers music and music business at The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK — Tennessee. Reach Melonee at  [email protected] , on X @HurtMelonee or Instagram at @MelHurtWrites.

What : Amy Grant

When : May 10-11

Where : The Ryman Auditorium

Tickets : www.ryman.com/event/2024-amy-grant