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 471 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 8 h 58 in the saddle. The stops in between: Cañada de la Cruz, Cueva de la Hiedra and back through Cañada de la Cruz. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Abrigo del Sabinar lies in the remote mountains of north-western Murcia, near Moratalla, where the Sierra de Segura and the Sierra del Taibilla meet, and its paintings of human figures and animals, including deer and goats, are among the finest examples of Levantine rock art in the region. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, and the area around Moratalla and Nerpio is particularly rich in painted shelters. The landscape is wild and rugged, with pine forests, limestone cliffs and deep river valleys, and the villages are few and far between.
Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
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Abrigo del Sabinar is where the day begins. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
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Cañada de la Cruz comes up about 103 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Hiedra.
Ivy is a modest plant to give a cave its name, but the Cueva de la Hiedra, the Cave of the Ivy, tells you something about the place. On a dry limestone hillside above Huesa, any cave that holds damp enough to grow ivy stands out, and the plant may mark the mouth of a shelter. The cave lies about four kilometres from Huesa and a little more from Quesada, in the folded limestone country between the olive plain and the wooded ridges of the Cazorla natural park.
Read the complete Cueva de la Hiedra write-up.
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about 234 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Hiedra. Next is back through Cañada de la Cruz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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back through Cañada de la Cruz, late in the day. Next is Abrigo del Sabinar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo del Sabinar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Abrigo del Sabinar. That is the ride.
Abrigo del Sabinar → Cañada de la Cruz is 103 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → Cueva de la Hiedra is 131 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Hiedra → back through Cañada de la Cruz is 131 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañada de la Cruz → Abrigo del Sabinar is 106 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.