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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
354 km from Nueno to Nueno, about 6 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Chaves I, Forau del Cocho, Covacho de Labarta and back through Forau del Cocho. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is where the day begins. Next is Chaves I.
The Cueva de Chaves, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guara in Huesca, was one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Iberian Peninsula, with deposits showing some of the earliest farming and herding in north-eastern Spain. In 2007, in an act that caused outrage, the landowner bulldozed the cave's floor deposits, destroying much of the archaeological record, and the case went to court. Rock art shelters in the area, including Chaves I and others in the Vero river valley, survive and are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Palaeolithic to schematic art.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Chaves I comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Forau del Cocho.
South of Huesca the land opens out. The Pyrenees are behind you, a snowy line on a clear day, and ahead stretches the gently rolling cereal country that eventually turns into the dry steppes of Los Monegros. Forau del Cocho lies in this transitional landscape, between Torres de Barbués, Almuniente and the outskirts of Huesca itself, a place where the only relief is the occasional low ridge or gully cut into soft rock.
Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 106 km into the recorded legs you reach Forau del Cocho. Next is Covacho de Labarta.
Somontano means under the mountain, and that is just what this district is: the rolling foothills of the Pyrenees below the Sierra de Guara, where the land opens from the stony gorges into a country of vineyards, almond groves and golden fields. The wine region of that name, around Barbastro, is one of the quiet success stories of Spanish viticulture, and its reds, whites and rosés are well worth carrying home. The Covacho de Labarta is six kilometres from Alquézar, in the hills that look down on the gorge of the Río Vero.
Read the complete Covacho de Labarta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Covacho de Labarta, about halfway. Next is back through Forau del Cocho.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Forau del Cocho sits at 167 km, about halfway. Next is back through Chaves I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Chaves I comes up about 295 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña closes the day.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Chaves I is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chaves I → Forau del Cocho is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forau del Cocho → Covacho de Labarta is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covacho de Labarta → back through Forau del Cocho is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Forau del Cocho → back through Chaves I is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chaves I → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.