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The path to the top is so steep that the trains (no longer running) used a geared wheel to pull them up the slope
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The ascent
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The cycle path (old railway track) runs alongside the main road in places but has no hairpins - just straight up!
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Broken crash barrier on the hairpin
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The hairpin
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Getting closer, can now see the bridge across to the Schloß
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Looking back down - the return way also!
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Good off road tracks on the last leg
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Schloß Lichtenstein at last - 817m 10 degrees and a southerly wind
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Reward for the slog to the top
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Where next?