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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373 km from Lutowiska to Lutowiska, about 6 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Bodruzal, Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection and back through Bodruzal. It crosses from Poland into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Bieszczady are the wildest mountains in Poland, a corner where the country meets Ukraine and Slovakia and the forest has had decades to reclaim the land. The border ridge, running along the frontier, and the valley of the upper Solinka, below it, are part of the Polish section of the Carpathian primeval beech forests, protected within Bieszczady National Park. There are no roads up here: the ridge is reached on foot, and the forest, with its old beeches, fir and sycamore, is home to wolves, lynx, brown bears, and the European bison that were reintroduced to the area.
Read the complete Border Ridge and Gorna Solinka valley write-up.
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Border Ridge and Gorna Solinka valley is where the day begins. Next is Bodruzal.
Bodružal is a tiny Rusyn village in the far northeast of Slovakia, close to the Polish border, with a few dozen houses scattered along a valley among the forested hills of the Low Beskids. What brings people here is its wooden church of St Nicholas, built in 1658, a three-domed Greek Catholic church with shingled walls and onion-shaped towers stepping up from east to west. It is one of the eight churches in the UNESCO listing of the wooden churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian mountain area, and it is a perfect example of the Lemko style: compact, harmonious and rooted in its landscape. Inside, the iconostasis glows with painted saints.
Read the complete Bodruzal write-up.
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Bodružal comes up about 113 km into the recorded legs. Next is Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection.
The Lemkos, a mountain people of the Carpathians, built their churches of wood, with onion domes and steep shingle roofs stepping up in tiers toward the west tower, and the one at Owczary, in the Low Beskids south of Gorlice, is one of the finest. Built in the mid seventeenth century as a Greek Catholic church, it was later enlarged and painted inside with a rich polychrome decoration. After the Second World War the Lemkos were deported from this region in Operation Vistula, and the church was taken over by the Roman Catholic parish, while the Greek Catholic community has also returned to use it. It is part of the World Heritage listing of the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine, inscribed in 2013.
Read the complete Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection write-up.
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about 187 km into the recorded legs you reach Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection. Next is back through Bodruzal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bodruzal write-up.
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back through Bodruzal, late in the day. Next is Border Ridge and Gorna Solinka valley.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Border Ridge and Gorna Solinka valley write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Border Ridge and Gorna Solinka valley. That is the ride.
Border Ridge and Gorna Solinka valley → Bodruzal is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bodružal → Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection → back through Bodruzal is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bodruzal → Border Ridge and Gorna Solinka valley is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.