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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448 km from Bicorp to Bicorp, about 8 h 14 of riding. It goes by way of Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, Cova de la Petxina, Barranc de la Penya Blanca and Penya del Vicari. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
For most of its length, the Júcar river in Valencia province runs through gorges, reservoirs and dry hills, and in the days before roads, the way to bring timber from the mountains to the coast was to float it. The woodsmen who did this were called gancheros, after the long hooked poles they used to push logs through rapids, and for centuries they took pine trunks down the Júcar and the Cabriel in spring floods, riding the logs and breaking jams. That trade ended in the twentieth century, but their memory is kept alive in villages like Millares and Bicorp. The shelter named for a man, Abrigo de Vicent, lies about five and a half kilometres from Bicorp, and carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain.
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Abrigo de Vicent is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
Alginet sits in the Ribera Alta, the flat, fertile plain south of Valencia where the Júcar river spreads out among orange groves, rice fields and small towns. To the west, the plain meets the first hills of the interior, low ridges of limestone covered in pine and scrub. The Barranc de la Falaguera, the ravine of the fern, cuts into these hills near Alginet, Alfarp and Benifaió.
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Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cova de la Petxina.
Bellús is a small village in the valley of the Albaida river in southern Valencia, just upstream from where the river flows into a reservoir and then joins the Júcar. The old village was partly flooded by the reservoir, and the new one stands on higher ground. The Cova de la Petxina, the cave of the shell, is in the hills near the village, close to Guadasequies and Genovés.
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about 116 km into the recorded legs you reach Cova de la Petxina. Next is Barranc de la Penya Blanca.
Planes is a small village in the hills of the Comtat in northern Alicante province, crowned by a castle and looking out over a valley of olive and cherry orchards. The Barranc de la Penya Blanca, the ravine of the white rock, lies close by, among the folded limestone ridges between Planes, Benimarfull and the reservoir at Beniarrés.
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Barranc de la Penya Blanca, about halfway. Next is Penya del Vicari.
On a map of the Costa Blanca, the Serra de Bernia looks like a wall dropped between two very different worlds. On one side, high-rise Benidorm and the busy coast; on the other, the quiet valleys of Jalón and Guadalest. The Penya del Vicari is one of the rocky outcrops in these hills above Altea and Calp, a place where the limestone is cut by caves and shelters, some of which carry traces of prehistoric painting. It is a small, quiet site in an area otherwise famous for sun loungers.
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Penya del Vicari sits at 160 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de la Penya Blanca.
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Read the complete Barranc de la Penya Blanca write-up.
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back through Barranc de la Penya Blanca comes up about 291 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cova de la Petxina.
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Read the complete Cova de la Petxina write-up.
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about 331 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cova de la Petxina. Next is back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I.
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Read the complete Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I write-up.
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back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I, late in the day. Next is Abrigo de Vicent.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Vicent write-up.
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The route ends here after 448 km.
Abrigo de Vicent → Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → Cova de la Petxina is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Petxina → Barranc de la Penya Blanca is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de la Penya Blanca → Penya del Vicari is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya del Vicari → back through Barranc de la Penya Blanca is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de la Penya Blanca → back through Cova de la Petxina is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cova de la Petxina → back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de la falaguera- Abric I → Abrigo de Vicent is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.