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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
The stops in between: Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve, Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve and back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
This is a remote place, and I should say so plainly.
Read the complete Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas is where the day begins. Next is Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve.
In the far west of Kyrgyzstan, where the Chatkal range runs along the edge of the Fergana valley and the border with Uzbekistan, a steep, forested set of mountains shelters the Padysha-Ata reserve. It is a strictly protected nature area, one of several state reserves in the country, and its purpose is the plain business of keeping a piece of the western Tian Shan as it was. The slopes carry forest and mountain meadow, rivers rush down from snowfields, and the peaks above are high enough to carry glaciers.
Read the complete Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve comes up about 191 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve.
Sary-Chelek means yellow bucket, and nobody quite agrees on why. The name belongs to a lake in the Chatkal range of south-western Kyrgyzstan, a deep, clear body of water at the bottom of a forested valley, which was formed when a landslide, probably set off by an earthquake, dammed the river long ago. The water takes on shades from emerald to deep blue depending on the light and the season, and the shore is fringed with spruce, with walnut and apple woods on the lower slopes, and meadows full of flowers in June. It lies at about 1,900 metres above the sea, and the cold clean air has a scent of pine.
Read the complete Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 336 km into the recorded legs you reach Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve. Next is back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve, late in the day. Next is Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas. That is the ride.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas → Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve is 191 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve → Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 144 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve → back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve is 144 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve → Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas is 191 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.