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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
425 km from Puértolas to Puértolas, about 7 h 18 of riding. It goes by way of Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, Abrigo del Camino and back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Añisclo canyon is one of the deepest and narrowest in the Spanish Pyrenees, a cleft in the limestone of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, and the road that runs through its lower section is one of the most remarkable in Aragon. At its southern end, beside an old stone bridge over the Bellós river, stands the hermitage of San Úrbez, built half into the cliff, with a cave behind it where tradition says the saint lived as a hermit. Close by, rock shelters hold traces of prehistoric painting.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is where the day begins. Next is Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Monte Perdido, the lost mountain, at 3,355 metres, is the highest limestone massif in Europe and the centrepiece of a cross-border World Heritage site shared by Spain and France. On the Spanish side, it gives its name to the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, with deep canyons radiating out from the summit; on the French side, it looks down on the great cirques of Gavarnie and Troumouse.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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Pyrénées - Mont Perdu comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Camino.
The Sierra de Guara is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a limestone range cut by canyons so deep and narrow that they have made the area a centre for canyoning. The river Vero runs through one of them, a gorge of pale rock and clear green pools, and at its mouth stands the village of Alquézar, whose collegiate church and castle dominate a rocky spur above the water. The Abrigo del Camino is one of the painted shelters in this country, part of the Levantine rock art of the Mediterranean arc that UNESCO lists, in a landscape that suits prehistoric hunters well.
Read the complete Abrigo del Camino write-up.
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about 213 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Camino. Next is back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez. That is the ride.
Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez → Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Abrigo del Camino is 161 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Camino → back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 161 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.