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 344 km round trip from Camarasa - roughly 5 h 47 in the saddle. It goes by way of Balma de les Ovelles, El Remosillo and back through Balma de les Ovelles. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Balma del Pantà write-up.
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Balma del Pantà is where the day begins. Next is Balma de les Ovelles.
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 comes up about 81 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Remosillo.
If you ride north from Barbastro toward Graus, the Ésera river eventually forces its way through a ridge of limestone, and the result is the Congosto de Olvena, a short, deep gorge with the road squeezed between rock and water. Up on the cliffs around here are rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, and El Remosillo is one of the best known in this corner of Aragón, between Estadilla, Graus and Fonz.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach El Remosillo. Next is back through Balma de les Ovelles.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Balma de les Ovelles write-up.
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back through Balma de les Ovelles, late in the day. Next is Balma del Pantà.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Balma del Pantà write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Balma del Pantà. That is the ride.
Balma del Pantà → Balma de les Ovelles is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Balma de les Ovelles → El Remosillo is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → back through Balma de les Ovelles is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Balma de les Ovelles → Balma del Pantà is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.