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 304 km round trip from Sopeira - roughly 5 h 00 in the saddle. The stops in between: Balma del Pantà, Roques Guàrdies II and back through Balma del Pantà. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Balma de les Ovelles, the Sheep's Shelter, lies in the high country where Catalonia meets Aragon, between the valleys of the Noguera Ribagorçana and the Noguera Pallaresa. This is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a land of limestone ridges, deep gorges, reservoirs and scattered villages, many of them half empty. Rock shelters like this one, used by shepherds and their flocks for thousands of years, are found throughout the region, and some hold traces of prehistoric painting or occupation. The name tells you what it was most recently used for, and the landscape around still carries the sound of sheep bells.
Read the complete Balma de les Ovelles write-up.
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Balma de les Ovelles is where the day begins. Next is Balma del Pantà.
Camarasa is a small town beneath a big wall of water. The dam across the Noguera Pallaresa, built in the early twentieth century, holds back a long reservoir, the Pantà de Camarasa, in a dry, rocky corner of Lleida where the pre-Pyrenees fall toward the Ebro plain. The cliffs rise steep and ochre above the water, and in the folds of that rock, shelters hold painted scenes from long before there was a dam or even a town. The Balma del Pantà is one of the sites of the Levantine rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean, a tradition listed by UNESCO in 1998.
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Balma del Pantà comes up about 81 km into the recorded legs. Next is Roques Guàrdies II.
Les Garrigues is the dry, stony corner of western Catalonia, south-east of Lleida, a land of low hills, terraced olive groves, almond trees and stone huts, where the light is hard and the summers are hot. Roques Guàrdies II is a rock shelter in these hills near Juneda and Arbeca, with traces of prehistoric paintings in the Levantine style, part of the World Heritage site of rock art in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula.
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about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Roques Guàrdies II. Next is back through Balma del Pantà.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Balma del Pantà write-up.
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back through Balma del Pantà, late in the day. Next is Balma de les Ovelles.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Balma de les Ovelles write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Balma de les Ovelles. That is the ride.
Balma de les Ovelles → Balma del Pantà is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Balma del Pantà → Roques Guàrdies II is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roques Guàrdies II → back through Balma del Pantà is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Balma del Pantà → Balma de les Ovelles is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.