Switzerland · Canton Zug

Not every ride from home stays local — a proper day trip to a different canton entirely.

Ridden 12 August 2018 — a genuine excursion rather than a home loop, out to Canton Zug and its own lake. Surprisingly hilly for a "trip out": the climbing total here beats every other home-turf ride except Chasseral.

Route data (from Strava): 55.1km, 1,404m of climbing, max grade 48.4% — nearly as much climbing as the much longer Chasseral ride, packed into a shorter distance.

The route, from my own GPS track

Real GPS route map showing the ride from Bargen to Zug area
The actual recorded route, plotted from my own Strava GPX/FIT data onto a real OpenStreetMap base — not a screenshot, not a live embed, a static image built from the real GPS track.

What it actually looks like

Rolling farmland near Zug, Switzerland
Countryside on the way to Zug.
A lake with a tree-lined shore near Zug, Switzerland
One of the lakes passed on the day out.

Source: my Strava export (12 Aug 2018), real GPS track, plus 2 real photos from the Google Photos archive.