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 74 km round trip from Kvasy - roughly 1 h 41 in the saddle. It goes by way of Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, Svydovets and back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Chornohora, the Black Mountain, is the highest range of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a long ridge of rounded summits above the forests on the border between the Zakarpattia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Its highest peak, Hoverla, rises to 2,061 metres, the highest point in Ukraine, and on summer weekends it can be busy with hikers. Along the ridge to the southeast stands Pip Ivan, crowned by the ruins of an astronomical and meteorological observatory built by Poland in the 1930s, when this was the border with Czechoslovakia. Locals call it the White Elephant, and seeing it loom out of the mist is unforgettable.
Read the complete Chornohora write-up.
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Chornohora is where the day begins. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Svydovets.
The Svydovets is a long, high ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians, rising above the upper Tisza valley near the town of Rakhiv in Zakarpattia. Its southern and northern slopes hold some of the wildest primeval beech forest left in Europe, protected as part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Above the trees lie broad alpine meadows, the polonyna, where Hutsul shepherds traditionally drove their flocks each summer, with glacial lakes tucked below the ridge.
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about 37 km into the recorded legs you reach Svydovets. Next is back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, late in the day. Next is Chornohora.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Chornohora write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Chornohora. That is the ride.
Chornohora → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Svydovets is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Svydovets → back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Chornohora is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.