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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A 417 km round trip from Nueno - roughly 7 h 49 in the saddle. It goes by way of Forau del Cocho, Covacho de Labarta, El Remosillo and Les Coves. 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.
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Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is where the day begins. 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.
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Forau del Cocho comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 110 km into the recorded legs you reach Covacho de Labarta. Next is El Remosillo.
If you ride north from Barbastro toward Graus, the Ésera river eventually forces its way through a ridge of limestone, and the result is the Congosto de Olvena, a short, deep gorge with the road squeezed between rock and water. Up on the cliffs around here are rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, and El Remosillo is one of the best known in this corner of Aragón, between Estadilla, Graus and Fonz.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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El Remosillo, about halfway. Next is Les Coves.
The western edge of Catalonia, around Lleida, is fruit country. Irrigation canals bring water from the Pyrenean rivers to a broad, flat plain of orchards growing apples, pears and peaches, laid out in neat lines that stretch to the horizon. Les Coves lies in this area, close to the Aragonese border, between Alfarràs, Albelda and Algerri, where the valley of the Noguera Ribagorçana spills out of the hills and onto the plain.
Read the complete Les Coves write-up.
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Les Coves sits at 169 km, about halfway. Next is back through El Remosillo.
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Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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back through El Remosillo comes up about 256 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Covacho de Labarta.
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Read the complete Covacho de Labarta write-up.
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about 306 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Covacho de Labarta. Next is back through Forau del Cocho.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
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back through Forau del Cocho, late in the day. 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.
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The route ends here after 417 km.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → Forau del Cocho is 40 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 → El Remosillo is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → Les Coves is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Les Coves → back through El Remosillo is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through El Remosillo → back through Covacho de Labarta is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.