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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347 km from Schitu-Goleşti to Schitu-Goleşti, about 8 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Rucăr - Scărișoara, Codrul secular Șinca, Cincșor - Cetate and back through Codrul secular Șinca. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Câmpulung Muscel lies at the foot of the Carpathians in northern Argeș county, and it claims the title of the first capital of Wallachia. Tradition credits its founding as a princely seat to the legendary Negru Vodă in the thirteenth century, and the old princely court and the Negru Vodă monastery in the town centre recall those early days of the Romanian principality. The town spreads along the valley of the Râul Târgului, with the mountains of Iezer and Piatra Craiului rising steeply to the north.
Read the complete Câmpulung - Jidova 1 write-up.
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Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is where the day begins. Next is Rucăr - Scărișoara.
Rucăr sits right where the Dâmbovița comes out of the mountains, a long village of wooden gates and tin roofs strung along the valley floor at the southern foot of the Rucăr–Bran corridor. Behind it the land climbs fast: Piatra Craiului's limestone ridge to the north-west, the rounded bulk of Leaota and the Bucegi to the east, and between them the saddle that has carried traffic between Wallachia and Transylvania for as long as anyone has bothered to write things down.
Read the complete Rucăr - Scărișoara write-up.
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Rucăr - Scărișoara comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Codrul secular Șinca.
Codru is an old Romanian word for a deep forest, and the Codrul Secular Șinca, the ancient forest of Șinca, is exactly that: a stand of old-growth beech and fir on the northern slopes of the Făgăraș mountains in Brașov county, where trees have grown, died and fallen for centuries without being cut. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the ancient and primeval beech forests of Europe, a chain of protected forests across many countries that together tell the story of how beech spread across the continent after the last ice age. Walking among trees that are hundreds of years old, with fallen trunks covered in moss and fungi and the canopy closing high above, is a humbling experience.
Read the complete Codrul secular Șinca write-up.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Codrul secular Șinca. Next is Cincșor - Cetate.
Between Sibiu and Făgăraș, the Olt flows through a broad valley, with the long wall of the Făgăraș mountains rising to the south, the highest in Romania, culminating in Moldoveanu at 2,544 metres. On the north bank, near the Saxon village of Cincșor, known in German as Kleinschenk, the Romans built a fort to guard the river crossing and the road along the valley. The site, known locally as Cetate, the fortress, lies in fields near the village, with only faint traces visible.
Read the complete Cincșor - Cetate write-up.
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Cincșor - Cetate, about halfway. Next is back through Codrul secular Șinca.
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Read the complete Codrul secular Șinca write-up.
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back through Codrul secular Șinca sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rucăr - Scărișoara.
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Read the complete Rucăr - Scărișoara write-up.
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back through Rucăr - Scărișoara comes up about 317 km into the recorded legs. Next is Câmpulung - Jidova 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Câmpulung - Jidova 1 write-up.
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Câmpulung - Jidova 1 closes the day.
Câmpulung - Jidova 1 → Rucăr - Scărișoara is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rucăr - Scărișoara → Codrul secular Șinca is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Codrul secular Șinca → Cincșor - Cetate is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cincșor - Cetate → back through Codrul secular Șinca is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Codrul secular Șinca → back through Rucăr - Scărișoara is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rucăr - Scărișoara → Câmpulung - Jidova 1 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.