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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From Jasienica Rosielna it runs 598 km to Jasienica Rosielna; allow about 10 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch, Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek, Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan and back through Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek. It crosses from Poland into Ukraine - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 65 km this is Bieszczady Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Blizne, in the green rolling country of the Subcarpathian region, has one of the oldest wooden churches in Poland, and you can see its age before you step inside. The Church of All Saints dates in its main structure from the late fifteenth century, built of larch and fir logs, with a steep shingled roof that sweeps nearly to the ground and a slender tower that seems to grow out of the nave. It is a classic of the Gothic wooden tradition that spread across the Carpathian foothills, and in 2013 it joined the UNESCO list of wooden churches of the Carpathian region.
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Church of All Saints is where the day begins. Next is Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch.
The wooden church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Turzańsk stands on a gentle slope in the foothills of the Bieszczady mountains, in the far southeast of Poland, near the borders with Slovakia and Ukraine, with its onion domes rising above the trees. It was built in the early nineteenth century by the Lemko or Boyko communities, the Ruthenian highlanders who once lived in these mountains, and it is one of the wooden tserkvas of the Polish and Ukrainian Carpathian region listed by UNESCO in 2013. Inside, an iconostasis of painted icons separates the nave from the sanctuary, and the church is still used for Orthodox services.
Read the complete Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch write-up.
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Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek.
In the far southeastern corner of Poland, where the country meets Slovakia and Ukraine, the Bieszczady mountains rise in long, rounded ridges covered with beech forest. Above the tree line, the summits are open meadows called połoniny, and Połonina Wetlińska is one of the most beautiful, a long grassy ridge with views over endless forested hills. Smerek, a peak at its western end, rises to over twelve hundred metres. On the ridge, the Chatka Puchatka, Winnie the Pooh's hut, a small mountain refuge, has been a beloved stop for hikers for decades. The walk up from Wetlina or the Przełęcz Wyżna pass takes a couple of hours, and the view from the top, especially at sunset, is unforgettable.
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about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek. Next is Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan.
Just below the pass that carries the road and railway from Uzhhorod into Galicia, the village of Uzhok keeps one of the finest wooden churches of the Carpathians. The tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael was built in the middle of the eighteenth century in the Boyko style, with three log chambers each topped by a tiered roof, rising in stages like a set of stacked hats, all covered in wooden shingles. It stands on a slope among old trees, with a separate bell tower nearby, and it is one of the sixteen wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine listed by UNESCO in 2013.
Read the complete Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan write-up.
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Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan, about halfway. Next is back through Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek.
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Read the complete Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek write-up.
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back through Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek sits at 202 km, about halfway. Next is back through Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch write-up.
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back through Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch comes up about 533 km into the recorded legs. Next is Church of All Saints.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of All Saints write-up.
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Church of All Saints closes the day.
Church of All Saints → Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch → Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek → Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan is 172 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan → back through Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek is 172 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Polonina Wetlinska and Smerek → back through Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch → Church of All Saints is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.