CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Bellver de Cerdanya it runs 384 km to Bellver de Cerdanya; allow about 6 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros, Balma de les Ovelles and back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Cerdanya is a high, wide, sunny valley in the eastern Pyrenees, shared between Catalonia and France, and its southern wall is the long limestone barrier of the Serra del Cadí. The Vall d'Ingla cuts into that wall just above Bellver de Cerdanya and the neighbouring village of Éller, and the rock shelter there is one of the archaeological traces of people who used these valleys long before towns and borders. You are inside the Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park, a protected area of pine forest, cliffs and high pasture.
Read the complete Abric de la Vall d'Ingla write-up.
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Abric de la Vall d'Ingla is where the day begins. Next is Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros.
Where the Segre comes down from the Pyrenees towards the plains of Lleida, it squeezes through a gap at Oliana, held back by a dam and a reservoir that fills the valley above. On the slopes nearby, Roc del Rumbau, also called the Roca dels Moros, the Moors' rock, is a shelter with prehistoric paintings, one of the Catalan sites of the World Heritage Site of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The name is a common one in Catalonia and Spain: local people often attributed anything ancient and mysterious to the Moors.
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Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Balma de les Ovelles.
The Balma de les Ovelles, the Sheep's Shelter, lies in the high country where Catalonia meets Aragon, between the valleys of the Noguera Ribagorçana and the Noguera Pallaresa. This is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a land of limestone ridges, deep gorges, reservoirs and scattered villages, many of them half empty. Rock shelters like this one, used by shepherds and their flocks for thousands of years, are found throughout the region, and some hold traces of prehistoric painting or occupation. The name tells you what it was most recently used for, and the landscape around still carries the sound of sheep bells.
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about 192 km into the recorded legs you reach Balma de les Ovelles. Next is back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros, late in the day. Next is Abric de la Vall d'Ingla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abric de la Vall d'Ingla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abric de la Vall d'Ingla. That is the ride.
Abric de la Vall d'Ingla → Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros → Balma de les Ovelles is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Balma de les Ovelles → back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Roc del Rumbau o Roca dels moros → Abric de la Vall d'Ingla is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.