Why this ride
160 km from Băbeni to Băbeni, about 3 h 37 of riding. It goes by way of Tihău - Dealul Cucului, Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor, Treznea - Cărbunarea and Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Cliț - Fața Chicerii and Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 160 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 37
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Northern Sălaj is quiet country: low wooded hills, hay meadows, plum orchards and villages strung along the Someș river and its side valleys, with wooden churches and haystacks built around poles in the fields. Cliț is a small village near Băbeni, and the point named Fața Chicerii lies in the hills above it. Names in this list follow the pattern of the Romanian archaeological record, a village and then the local name of a hillside, and in this part of Sălaj many such points belong to the line of watchtowers and small forts of the Roman frontier of Dacia, which UNESCO recognised in 2024.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Cliț - Fața Chicerii is where the day begins. Next is Tihău - Dealul Cucului.
2. Tihău - Dealul Cucului
Dealul Cucului means cuckoo hill, and the name fits the place: a low, wooded rise above the village of Tihău, close to the town of Jibou in the Someș valley of Sălaj county, where in spring the cuckoo's call echoes across the meadows. The point belongs to the network of archaeological sites along the Roman frontier of Dacia in the northwest of the province, near the confluence of the Almaș and Someș rivers, a strategic spot where valleys meet and roads cross. As with many of these sites, there may be little to see on the surface, but the location makes sense once you look at the map.
Read the complete Tihău - Dealul Cucului write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Tihău - Dealul Cucului comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor.
3. Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor
Roman Dacia's north-western frontier ran along the crest of the Meseș mountains, and the hill country around Mirșid, east of Zalău, is laced with its traces: watchtowers, earthworks and small forts placed so that each could see the next. In 2024 these remains became part of the World Heritage listing for the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia. The name of the spot, La Strâmtură by the wolves' brook, gives a fair idea of its character: a narrow place in the hills, wooded and quiet, where the eye has to work to pick out a low mound or a ditch in the grass.
Read the complete Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 36 km into the recorded legs you reach Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor. Next is Treznea - Cărbunarea.
4. Treznea - Cărbunarea
Treznea is a quiet village in the hills southeast of Zalău, the kind of place where the loudest sound is a cockerel or a tractor. Yet its name carries a heavy weight in Romanian memory. In September 1940, shortly after northern Transylvania was transferred to Hungary under the Second Vienna Award, Hungarian troops entering the area killed dozens of villagers here, Romanians and Jews, and burned houses. A memorial in the village commemorates the victims. It is a sombre reminder that the beautiful hills of Transylvania have seen terrible things.
Read the complete Treznea - Cărbunarea write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Treznea - Cărbunarea, about halfway. Next is Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1.
5. Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1
Mirsid is the kind of village you pass on the way somewhere else, until you notice that it sits at the foot of the greatest Roman frontier in Transylvania. The ridge of the Meses mountains rises behind it in a long, dark line of beech and oak, and the Romans built a series of watchtowers along the crest, looking north across the border into the lands of the free Dacians. The name Dealul Mare, Big Hill, with the number one attached, suggests the first in a sequence of those lookout points, and in a few of them you can still make out the square footprint of a tower in the grass.
Read the complete Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Treznea - Cărbunarea.
6. back through Treznea - Cărbunarea
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Treznea - Cărbunarea write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Treznea - Cărbunarea comes up about 103 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor.
7. back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 124 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor. Next is back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului.
8. back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tihău - Dealul Cucului write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului, late in the day. Next is Cliț - Fața Chicerii.
9. Cliț - Fața Chicerii
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cliț - Fața Chicerii write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The route ends here after 160 km.
Leg by leg
Cliț - Fața Chicerii to Tihău - Dealul Cucului
Cliț - Fața Chicerii → Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tihău - Dealul Cucului to Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor
Tihău - Dealul Cucului → Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor to Treznea - Cărbunarea
Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor → Treznea - Cărbunarea is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Treznea - Cărbunarea to Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1
Treznea - Cărbunarea → Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 to back through Treznea - Cărbunarea
Mirșid - Dealul Mare 1 → back through Treznea - Cărbunarea is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Treznea - Cărbunarea to back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor
back through Treznea - Cărbunarea → back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor to back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului
back through Mirșid - La Strâmtură 2-Pârâul Lupilor → back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului to Cliț - Fața Chicerii
back through Tihău - Dealul Cucului → Cliț - Fața Chicerii is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.