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 158 km round trip from Casbas de Huesca - roughly 4 h 00 in the saddle. On the way it passes Corral de la Gascona, Mascún I and back through Corral de la Gascona. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Cueva de Chaves, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guara in Huesca, was one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Iberian Peninsula, with deposits showing some of the earliest farming and herding in north-eastern Spain. In 2007, in an act that caused outrage, the landowner bulldozed the cave's floor deposits, destroying much of the archaeological record, and the case went to court. Rock art shelters in the area, including Chaves I and others in the Vero river valley, survive and are part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing, with paintings ranging from Palaeolithic to schematic art.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Chaves I is where the day begins. Next is Corral de la Gascona.
Alquézar is one of the most dramatic villages in Spain: a cluster of ochre houses piled on a rocky spur above the canyon of the Vero river, crowned by a castle and a collegiate church built on the site of a Moorish fortress. It lies at the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara, a limestone range in Aragon cut by deep canyons, and the area is famous across Europe for canyoning, with people abseiling, jumping and swimming through the narrow gorges in summer. The Corral de la Gascona is one of the rock-art sites in the Vero canyon and its surroundings, part of the UNESCO-listed rock art of the Mediterranean Basin.
Read the complete Corral de la Gascona write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Corral de la Gascona comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mascún I.
The Mascún gorge is one of the great pieces of rock in the Sierra de Guara, a canyon with walls that rise several hundred metres, and it is the reason the village of Rodellar has become a pilgrimage site for climbers. Mascún I is a small shelter on the high ground above, in a district of cliffs, pines and thin soil, and it belongs to the Mediterranean-arc rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998. I can tell you that you will not have to share the view with a crowd. This is one of the emptiest corners of the Pyrenean foothills.
Read the complete Mascún I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach Mascún I. Next is back through Corral de la Gascona.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Corral de la Gascona write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Corral de la Gascona, late in the day. Next is Chaves I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chaves I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Chaves I. That is the ride.
Chaves I → Corral de la Gascona is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Corral de la Gascona → Mascún I is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mascún I → back through Corral de la Gascona is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Corral de la Gascona → Chaves I is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.