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 324 km round trip from Bárcabo - roughly 5 h 32 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abrigo de Los Gitanos, Forau del Cocho and back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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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Abrigo del Camino is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
The road north-west out of Huesca toward Pamplona runs along the foot of a dramatic wall of rock. To the north are the Pre-Pyrenean sierras, and studded along them are some of Aragón's most striking sights: the Castle of Loarre, a superbly preserved Romanesque fortress on a spur, and the Mallos de Riglos, huge red conglomerate towers rising straight out of the hillside. The rock shelter known as the Abrigo de los Gitanos lies in this country, between Ayerbe, Loarre and Luesia.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
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Abrigo de Los Gitanos comes up about 102 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.
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about 160 km into the recorded legs you reach Forau del Cocho. Next is back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Camino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Camino write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Camino. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Camino → Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Forau del Cocho is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forau del Cocho → back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Abrigo del Camino is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.