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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257 km from Alquézar to Alquézar, about 4 h 59 of riding. It goes by way of Mascún V, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Mascún V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The name suggests a spring and a trout, and you can hold on to the idea of water even if the shelter itself is dry. The Cueva de la Fuente de Trucho is one of the rock shelters that the archaeologists place in the Vero valley, two and a half kilometres from Alquézar, and it belongs with the painted overhangs of the Iberian Mediterranean arc that UNESCO recognised in 1998. Springs matter in this part of Aragon, which is dry for most of the year, and prehistoric people came to places like this for the same reason that modern walkers do: water, shade and a view.
Read the complete Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho write-up.
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Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho is where the day begins. Next is Mascún V.
The Barranco de Mascún is one of the great canyons of the Sierra de Guara, a limestone range in the pre-Pyrenees of Huesca, where rivers have carved deep, narrow gorges, caves and towers into the rock. The canyon, near the village of Rodellar, is famous among climbers for its overhanging walls and among canyoners for its pools and waterfalls, and it also holds traces of prehistoric painting in its shelters. Mascún V is one of these sites, part of the group of Mediterranean rock art sites listed by UNESCO, and the setting, with sheer orange and grey walls rising above the river, is extraordinary.
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Mascún V comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Mascún V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mascún V write-up.
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back through Mascún V, late in the day. Next is Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho. That is the ride.
Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho → Mascún V is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mascún V → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Mascún V is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mascún V → Cueva de la fuente de! Trucho is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.