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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389 km from Pego to Pego, about 8 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes Penya de Benicadell, Penya roja o Ulls de Canals, Olula and Abric del Sordo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Local walkers call it the cathedral of hiking, and once you have seen the Barranc de l'Infern you understand why. This deep limestone gorge, between the Vall de Laguar and the Vall d'Ebo in the mountains behind Dénia, is crossed by an old Moorish mule path that descends and climbs again by thousands of stone steps, carved and built into the rock walls over centuries. The route, a classic day walk, is spectacular and exhausting, with the gorge narrowing at its deepest point to a passage between towering walls. The gorge also holds prehistoric rock art in its shelters, and the sites grouped as Conjunt 2 are among them, part of the wider family of Mediterranean rock art protected by UNESCO.
Read the complete Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 write-up.
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Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 is where the day begins. Next is Penya de Benicadell.
From almost anywhere in the southern half of Valencia province you can see it: a long, jagged ridge of grey limestone with a sharp tooth at its eastern end, standing on the skyline like a broken saw. The Benicadell, at 1,104 metres, separates the Vall d'Albaida to the north from the Comtat to the south, and the sharp summit, the Penya, is the mountain's signature. At its foot lie the villages of Beniarrés, Ràfol de Salem and Otos.
Read the complete Penya de Benicadell write-up.
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Penya de Benicadell comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Penya roja o Ulls de Canals.
This is the country of toys and herbs, an unusual pairing. Onil and Ibi, in the inland hills of Alicante, grew up as centres of toy-making, starting with tin and later plastic, and the local museum in Ibi tells how a mountain valley became a world supplier of dolls and games. On the other side, the Sierra de Mariola, a natural park rich in aromatic plants, supplies the herbs for a local liqueur and for traditional remedies. Bocairent, a handsome old town on a rocky spur, has houses built right at the edge of a gorge and a set of man-made caves carved into the cliff, the Covetes dels Moros.
Read the complete Penya roja o Ulls de Canals write-up.
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about 98 km into the recorded legs you reach Penya roja o Ulls de Canals. Next is Olula.
Caudete and Almansa sit in a corridor of land where Castile-La Mancha, Valencia and Murcia meet, and for centuries this was frontier country, where kingdoms and armies passed and fought. Olula is a point in the hills near Caudete, linked on the rides with rock-art shelters in the surrounding sierras, part of the extensive UNESCO listing of prehistoric art in Mediterranean Spain.
Read the complete Olula write-up.
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Olula, about halfway. Next is Abric del Sordo.
Ayora sits in a broad valley between two mountain ranges, in the interior of Valencia province, and the land around it has a high, golden look in summer, with fields of cereal, vines and almond trees under big skies. The town, with about 5,500 people, has a castle and a handsome palace of the Counts of Cervellón, and it feels like a gateway to a quieter Spain. To the south, the Cabriel river has cut a long canyon through the limestone, the Hoces del Cabriel, a protected area with clear water, poplars and cliffs, listed as a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Read the complete Abric del Sordo write-up.
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Abric del Sordo sits at 154 km, about halfway. Next is back through Olula.
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Read the complete Olula write-up.
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back through Olula comes up about 235 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals.
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Read the complete Penya roja o Ulls de Canals write-up.
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about 290 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals. Next is back through Penya de Benicadell.
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Read the complete Penya de Benicadell write-up.
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back through Penya de Benicadell, late in the day. Next is Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2, 38 km on.
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Read the complete Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 write-up.
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The route ends here after 389 km.
Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 → Penya de Benicadell is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya de Benicadell → Penya roja o Ulls de Canals is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Penya roja o Ulls de Canals → Olula is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olula → Abric del Sordo is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del Sordo → back through Olula is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Olula → back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penya roja o Ulls de Canals → back through Penya de Benicadell is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Penya de Benicadell → Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.