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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307 km from Alcaine to Alcaine, about 6 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: Abrigo de los Trepadores, Recodo de los Chaparros II, Covacho Ahumado and Recodo de los Chaparros I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Río Martín country of Teruel is a place of deep gorges and bare, honey-coloured hills, and Oliete and Estercuel are two of its tiny villages. The Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is a small shelter in a side ravine, named for the fig tree that grows at its mouth, and it holds paintings that belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, as protected by UNESCO. The pictures include the small red figures of the Levantine tradition, and the setting, under an overhang of golden rock, is a good place to sit and think about how few things have changed in the landscape.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester write-up.
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Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de los Trepadores.
The Río Martín runs through the dry hills of Teruel province in northern Spain, and the villages along its banks, Alacón, Oliete and Muniesa among them, are tiny places that seem to belong to a calmer century. The Abrigo de los Trepadores is one of the rock shelters of the area, part of a cultural park that protects the paintings found in the cliffs and gorges of the valley. Many belong to the Levantine tradition, small red figures of hunters and animals, and others are schematic, simple signs and stick-like human forms, painted by later peoples. The paintings can be hard to find without a guide, and access is regulated, so plan ahead.
Read the complete Abrigo de los Trepadores write-up.
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Abrigo de los Trepadores comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Recodo de los Chaparros II.
The Río Martín cuts a deep, narrow canyon through the dry limestone of the Bajo Aragón, in the province of Teruel, and the Recodo de los Chaparros, whose name means roughly the bend of the dwarf oaks, sits on that river a few kilometres from Albalate del Arzobispo. The land is rolling and almost treeless, covered in olive groves, almond trees and pale rocky fields, and it can feel like a different planet from the green north of Spain.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Recodo de los Chaparros II. Next is Covacho Ahumado.
The name means the smoky little shelter, and it fits: a modest overhang darkened by soot, one of the rock art sites around Alacón in the Río Martín Cultural Park in Teruel province. The Martín river has carved canyons through limestone here, and its walls hold dozens of painted panels, from naturalistic Levantine hunting scenes to the later schematic style of stick figures and symbols. Alacón alone has several groups of shelters, and the park has an interpretation centre in the area to explain them.
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Covacho Ahumado, about halfway. Next is Recodo de los Chaparros I.
There is a moment on the road to Albalate del Arzobispo when the plateau seems to open and a river gorge appears below, and that is the valley of the Martín, one of the hidden corners of Teruel. The river has cut a deep, winding canyon through the limestone of the Bajo Aragón, and the villages that line it, Albalate, Ariño, Alloza, have been farming and mining here for centuries. The Recodo de los Chaparros, the bend of the holm oaks, is a shelter in this country, and it belongs to the group that makes the Río Martín one of Aragon's cultural parks.
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Recodo de los Chaparros I sits at 72 km, about halfway. Next is back through Covacho Ahumado.
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back through Covacho Ahumado comes up about 187 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Recodo de los Chaparros II.
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Read the complete Recodo de los Chaparros II write-up.
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about 235 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Recodo de los Chaparros II. Next is back through Abrigo de los Trepadores.
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Read the complete Abrigo de los Trepadores write-up.
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back through Abrigo de los Trepadores, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester.
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Read the complete Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester write-up.
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The route ends here after 307 km.
Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester → Abrigo de los Trepadores is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de los Trepadores → Recodo de los Chaparros II is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Recodo de los Chaparros II → Covacho Ahumado is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covacho Ahumado → Recodo de los Chaparros I is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Recodo de los Chaparros I → back through Covacho Ahumado is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Covacho Ahumado → back through Recodo de los Chaparros II is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Recodo de los Chaparros II → back through Abrigo de los Trepadores is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de los Trepadores → Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.