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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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An 370 km round trip from Petrila - roughly 6 h 24 in the saddle. On the way it passes Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea, Capâlna and back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Retezat range rises to the south, its granite peaks carrying snow into early summer, and the whole area belongs to Hunedoara county, a land of old mining, Dacian history and shepherds who still move flocks through the hills.
Read the complete Comărnicel II write-up.
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Comărnicel II is where the day begins. Next is Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea.
High above the Sebeș and Cugir valleys, where the Șureanu foothills fold into long grassy shoulders, the Romans kept watch over the southern approaches to their province of Dacia. The name on the map, Muncelu-Lăutaorea, belongs to the ridge country above Pianu de Jos, and it is one of the many small frontier points that archaeologists have tied to the Roman defensive system here. Do not expect walls to lean on. What survives on these hilltops is usually a faint platform, a ditch you notice only when the light is low, and a view that explains everything about why a sentry was posted there.
Read the complete Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea write-up.
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Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea comes up about 102 km into the recorded legs. Next is Capâlna.
The Dacians liked their fortresses high, hidden and hard to reach, which is why the Roman legions of Trajan took two bloody wars at the start of the second century to conquer them. Căpâlna stands on a steep wooded hill above the Sebeș valley, a Dacian citadel with stone walls built in the distinctive murus dacicus technique, blocks of cut stone tied together with timber beams, and a tower that served as the last refuge. It is one of the six Dacian fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains listed by UNESCO in 1999, along with the capital Sarmizegetusa Regia, and it is one of the easier ones to reach, with a path climbing through the forest from the valley road.
Read the complete Capâlna write-up.
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about 185 km into the recorded legs you reach Capâlna. Next is back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea, late in the day. Next is Comărnicel II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Comărnicel II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Comărnicel II. That is the ride.
Comărnicel II → Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea → Capâlna is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Capâlna → back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pianu de Jos - Muncelu-Lăutaorea → Comărnicel II is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.