CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 332 km round trip from Jibou - roughly 6 h 10 in the saddle. The stops in between: Valea Leșului - Țiclău, Guga - Vârful Țâglii, Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 and Fălcușa - Dealul Muncelului. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The hill of Comorâște, above the village of Brebi in Sălaj county, overlooks the Someș valley as it turns north towards Jibou, and its name hints at buried treasure, comoară, which is how villagers often explained odd mounds and old stones on their land. Archaeologists explain it more prosaically as a Roman watch site on the north-western frontier of Dacia, part of the line of towers and forts strung along the Meseș hills and inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. From the top you can see across the valley to the forested ridges that once marked the edge of the empire.
Read the complete Brebi - Comorâște write-up.
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Brebi - Comorâște is where the day begins. Next is Valea Leșului - Țiclău.
The Someș river does most of the work here. Flowing west and then north out of Transylvania, it has carved a valley through the hills of Sălaj county, and near the villages of Lozna and Letca the slopes close in, wooded and steep, with small clearings and hay meadows. On the ridges above, the Romans built watchtowers to guard the northern edge of Dacia, and the remains near Valea Leșului and Țiclău are among the sites included in the UNESCO frontier listing. Today they are little more than grassy hollows and stone scatters, visited by archaeologists and the occasional curious walker.
Read the complete Valea Leșului - Țiclău write-up.
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Valea Leșului - Țiclău comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
Rugășești, Vad and Poiana Blenchii are the kind of villages most people drive past on the way to somewhere else, and that is precisely the charm of the hills that rise between them. The point marked as Guga, Vârful Țâglii, lies on this rolling country north of the Someș, roughly a dozen kilometres from Dej, in the band of land where Rome drew the northern edge of Dacia. A summit called Țâglii is the sort of place where a watchtower would have looked out across the Someș corridor toward the free tribes beyond, and the archaeological lists record a frontier site here.
Read the complete Guga - Vârful Țâglii write-up.
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about 80 km into the recorded legs you reach Guga - Vârful Țâglii. Next is Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1.
A valley is the simplest of landscapes, and the one that goes by the name of Valea Leșului lies in the hills of Sălaj, in the north-west of Romania, a few kilometres from the village of Lozna. The second part of the ride title, Piciorul Andreichii, uses the word for foot in the sense of a spur of land running down a hillside, so the label describes a ridge beside a stream, and again it comes from an archaeological register.
Read the complete Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 write-up.
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Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1, about halfway. Next is Fălcușa - Dealul Muncelului.
Dej sits where two rivers meet, the Somes and the Somesul Mic, and it has been a salt town for as long as anyone remembers. The Romans knew salt here, and so did the medieval Hungarian kings, who taxed it. A few kilometres north-west of the town, on a hill called Dealul Muncelului near the village of Falcusa, the Roman frontier of Dacia Porolissensis left a trace. As far as I can tell from the label, it is one of the watchtowers or small installations of the limes, and it was included in the 2024 UNESCO listing. There is little to see but earth banks and a clearing. What interests me is the line of sight: from here the Romans could watch the road along the Somes valley, a corridor that ran from Napoca, today's Cluj, to the frontier fort at Porolissum.
Read the complete Fălcușa - Dealul Muncelului write-up.
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Fălcușa - Dealul Muncelului sits at 136 km, about halfway. Next is back through Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1.
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Read the complete Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 write-up.
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back through Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 comes up about 208 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
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about 250 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii. Next is back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău.
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Read the complete Valea Leșului - Țiclău write-up.
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back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău, late in the day. Next is Brebi - Comorâște.
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The route ends here after 332 km.
Brebi - Comorâște → Valea Leșului - Țiclău is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valea Leșului - Țiclău → Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guga - Vârful Țâglii → Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 → Fălcușa - Dealul Muncelului is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fălcușa - Dealul Muncelului → back through Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 → back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii → back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău → Brebi - Comorâște is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.