↻ Clockwise
Westward, into the afternoon sun in the cool season. Leave early or accept it.
LegsSoppong to Mae Hong Son
สบป่อง – แม่ฮ่องสอน
The descent into the three mists, and the one to do in the morning.
52km
281curves
27hairpins
1.5–2hours
The route
↺ Counter-clockwise
Eastward in the morning, sun behind. The better half of this leg's bargain.
Route 1095
7.43curves per kilometre — its hardest two kilometres
What it is
Fifty-two kilometres, a hundred and ninety curves, and a long drop into the Mae Hong Son valley at the end.
The long version
Inference — 51.5 kilometres, 190 curves at a 25-degree threshold, 3.74 a kilometre. On paper the gentlest of the three 1095 sections; in practice the one with the most sustained descent.
This is the leg the light argument is about. Ridden westward in the afternoon in the cool season the sun sits at the end of the road, on two lanes, with oncoming traffic, for the last hour. Ridden eastward in the morning it is behind you. Inference — it is the clearest single reason in the whole clockwise-versus-counter-clockwise question to consider going the other way round, and almost nobody raises it.
What it asks of you
| Smallest sensible bike | Automatic scooter, 110–160cc |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | You have ridden hills before |
| Pillion | Fine |
The descent is long. On an automatic, stop twice on it.
Runs with
- townMae Hong Son — The town at the bottom.
- hazardThe low sun — The hazard this leg is famous for among people who have met it.
- storyThe season picks the direction — The argument this leg supplies.
- hazardBrake fade — The long descent.
Named here by
- legPai to Soppong — The hard one, next.
- roadRoute 1095 — The descent at the far end.
- townMae Hong Son — The way in from the north.
- townSoppong — The way on, and the hardest descent of the northern leg.
- hazardThe low sun — The leg it lands on.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | inference | leg description is this project's, built on the measured geometry and the cited road articles | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Curve and distance measurements off the OSM polyline — This project
- Mae Hong Son — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there