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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465 km from Quesada to Quesada, about 8 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Cañada de la Cruz, Fuente del Sabuco I and back through Cañada de la Cruz. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Ivy is a modest plant to give a cave its name, but the Cueva de la Hiedra, the Cave of the Ivy, tells you something about the place. On a dry limestone hillside above Huesa, any cave that holds damp enough to grow ivy stands out, and the plant may mark the mouth of a shelter. The cave lies about four kilometres from Huesa and a little more from Quesada, in the folded limestone country between the olive plain and the wooded ridges of the Cazorla natural park.
Read the complete Cueva de la Hiedra write-up.
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Cueva de la Hiedra is where the day begins. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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Cañada de la Cruz comes up about 128 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fuente del Sabuco I.
High in the Sierra del Taibilla, in the borderland hills between Moratalla and Nerpio, the shelters of Fuente del Sabuco hold Levantine paintings of hunters, archers and animals, part of the rich rock art of this remote corner where Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha meet. Nerpio and Moratalla between them hold a remarkable number of painted shelters, making this one of the key centres of rock art in Spain, and an interpretation centre in the village explains the paintings and organises visits. The shelter is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Fuente del Sabuco I write-up.
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about 232 km into the recorded legs you reach Fuente del Sabuco I. Next is back through Cañada de la Cruz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cañada de la Cruz, late in the day. Next is Cueva de la Hiedra.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Hiedra write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de la Hiedra. That is the ride.
Cueva de la Hiedra → Cañada de la Cruz is 128 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → Fuente del Sabuco I is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuente del Sabuco I → back through Cañada de la Cruz is 102 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañada de la Cruz → Cueva de la Hiedra is 131 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.