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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Alquézar it runs 257 km to Alquézar; allow about 4 h 59 of riding. The stops in between: Mascún V, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Mascún V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Río Vero is not a big river, but it has spent a very long time doing something clever with the limestone of the Sierra de Guara. Above Alquézar it has cut a gorge that narrows to a few metres in places and widens again into pools the colour of bottle glass, and the plateau on both sides is a dry country of box, holm oak and aromatic scrub that bears almost no relation to the water below. Arpán is a small side-valley three kilometres from the village, a short walk off the road, and its shelter is one of several in the Vero canyon system that carry painted figures from the ancient hunters of the Levantine tradition.
Read the complete Arpán E 2 write-up.
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Arpán E 2 is where the day begins. Next is Mascún V.
The Barranco de Mascún is one of the great canyons of the Sierra de Guara, a limestone range in the pre-Pyrenees of Huesca, where rivers have carved deep, narrow gorges, caves and towers into the rock. The canyon, near the village of Rodellar, is famous among climbers for its overhanging walls and among canyoners for its pools and waterfalls, and it also holds traces of prehistoric painting in its shelters. Mascún V is one of these sites, part of the group of Mediterranean rock art sites listed by UNESCO, and the setting, with sheer orange and grey walls rising above the river, is extraordinary.
Read the complete Mascún V write-up.
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Mascún V comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
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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about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Mascún V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mascún V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mascún V, late in the day. Next is Arpán E 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Arpán E 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Arpán E 2. That is the ride.
Arpán E 2 → Mascún V is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mascún V → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Mascún V is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mascún V → Arpán E 2 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.