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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A 96 km round trip from Nerpio - roughly 2 h 41 in the saddle. The stops in between: Las Covachicas, Las Cazuelas and back through Las Covachicas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,350 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Nerpio area has been lived in, in one way or another, for a very long time, and the people who live there now seem to know it. Cavidad I, one of the shelters that archaeologists numbered in this district, lies about eight kilometres from the village of Nerpio, up on the plateau where the pines give way to farmland. The tradition of keeping sheep and goats on these hills is old, and the tracks that the flocks use to move between summer and winter pasture have shaped the paths you will find.
Read the complete Cavidad I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cavidad I is where the day begins. Next is Las Covachicas.
The Sierra del Segura, in the far south of Albacete province, is a world of its own: deep valleys, rivers lined with poplars, terraces of olive and almond trees, and white villages that look more Andalusian than Castilian. Letur is one of the most beautiful, a village of Moorish origin built on a rock above a stream, with narrow alleys, arches and gardens watered by old irrigation channels. Las Covachicas, a group of shelters, lies in the hills nearby, between Letur, Socovos and Férez.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Las Covachicas comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Las Cazuelas.
Moratalla is the kind of hill town that looks as though it was poured down a slope: white houses tumbling below a castle tower, narrow lanes too steep for comfort, church bells echoing off the hills. Ten kilometres out, in the rugged country of north-west Murcia, the shelter of Las Cazuelas holds prehistoric paintings, part of the region's contribution to the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin. The paintings are fragile and protected, and access is usually by guided visit, arranged in Moratalla or through the regional authorities.
Read the complete Las Cazuelas write-up.
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about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach Las Cazuelas. Next is back through Las Covachicas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Las Covachicas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Las Covachicas, late in the day. Next is Cavidad I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cavidad I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cavidad I. That is the ride.
Cavidad I → Las Covachicas is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Covachicas → Las Cazuelas is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Las Cazuelas → back through Las Covachicas is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Las Covachicas → Cavidad I is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.