CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 262 km round trip from Gâlgău - roughly 5 h 52 in the saddle. It goes by way of Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului, Perisor - Corobana, Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci and back through Perisor - Corobana. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Somewhere above the Someș valley, on a hill the villagers call Dealul Hanului, the inn hill, the Romans kept watch over the northern edge of their province of Dacia. After Trajan's conquest in 106, the new province had to be defended on all sides, and its northern frontier, in what the Romans called Dacia Porolissensis, ran through these hills between the Meseș mountains and the upper Someș. Forts, watchtowers and earthworks controlled the valleys, and Căpâlna, near the village of Gâlgău, is one of the many small sites that formed that network, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia that Romania has put forward for UNESCO listing.
Read the complete Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului write-up.
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Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului is where the day begins. Next is Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului.
The countryside around Vârful Runcului is the landscape that two of Romania's best-loved writers came from, and it shows in their work. Liviu Rebreanu, born in the Năsăud area in 1885, set his novel Ion, about a peasant's hunger for land, in villages very like these, and the poet George Coșbuc grew up not far away in the valleys north of Năsăud. The hill itself, a rounded summit above the Someș valley, carries traces of the Roman watch system that once guarded the northern frontier of Dacia, part of the World Heritage listing since 2024, but its real charm is the view of the farmland Rebreanu wrote about.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului comes up 28 km in. Next is Perisor - Corobana.
Țara Năsăudului, the Land of Năsăud, is a hilly corner of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, and it has a strong sense of its own identity. In the eighteenth century the Habsburgs organised the villages here into a military frontier district, with a Romanian border regiment that defended the empire's eastern edge in return for freedom from serfdom. The people of the area were proud of that status, and the schools and institutions founded with the regiment's funds helped create a remarkable tradition of learning. Two of Romania's best-loved writers grew up nearby: the poet George Coșbuc, born in the village that now bears his name, and the novelist Liviu Rebreanu, whose books describe the lives of Transylvanian peasants.
Read the complete Perisor - Corobana write-up.
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55 km in you reach Perisor - Corobana. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, about halfway. Next is back through Perisor - Corobana.
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Read the complete Perisor - Corobana write-up.
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back through Perisor - Corobana sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului comes up 138 km in. Next is Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului.
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Read the complete Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului write-up.
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Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului closes the day.
Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului → Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului → Perisor - Corobana is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Perisor - Corobana → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → back through Perisor - Corobana is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Perisor - Corobana → back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Vârful Runcului → Căpâlna - Dealul Hanului is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.