CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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DN67C, the highest road in Romania at 2,145 m. A one-way ride of 130 km, Novaci to Sălişte - roughly 2 h 23 in the saddle. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,750 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 15 km this is Romania Transalpina, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Up here the Parâng Mountains show their true shape, a broad, grassy massif that rolls away to the horizon more like a Scottish moor than an Alpine peak. The Transalpina, Romania's DN67C, climbs onto this high plateau above the treeline, where spruce forest gives way to open pasture, juniper and heather, and the road becomes a thin ribbon across a vast, empty landscape. Its high point, the Urdele Pass, reaches 2,145 metres, which makes it the highest paved road in the country, and the surrounding country has the lonely, windswept feel of the roof of the Carpathians.
Read the complete Transalpina point 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Transalpina point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Transalpina point 2.
Here the road leaves the bare plateau and drops into the valley of the Lotru, a long, wooded corridor threaded by one of the main rivers of the Southern Carpathians. The river has been tamed for hydroelectric power, with large dams and reservoirs, notably Lake Vidra, and from the road you catch glimpses of still, deep blue water between steep slopes of spruce. After the exposure of the high pass, the forest comes as a relief, with the smell of resin and damp earth.
Read the complete Transalpina point 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Transalpina point 2 comes up 65 km in. Next is Transalpina point 3.
130 km in you reach Transalpina point 3.