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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138 km from Frías de Albarracín to Frías de Albarracín, about 3 h 04 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo, Barranco del Pajarejo and back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Sierra de Albarracín is a high, cold, empty land of pine forests, red sandstone and limestone, at well over a thousand metres, and it hides some of the most interesting prehistoric rock art in Spain. The Pinares de Rodeno, a protected landscape of pine forests and red sandstone outcrops near Albarracín, has shelters with paintings of bulls, deer and human figures, included in UNESCO's inscription of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Cueva de la Peña de la Morería is one of the sites in this region, near the villages of Bronchales and Orihuela del Tremedal, at the foot of the mountains.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
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Cueva de la Peña de la morería is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo.
Albarracín is a small walled town of rose-coloured stone, steep and narrow, built on a rocky bend of the Guadalaviar river in the Sierra de Albarracín, in the south of Teruel province. The Abrigo de la Fuente del Cabrerizo is a rock shelter about three kilometres away in the surrounding pine woods, in country of strangely red sandstone outcrops that locals call rodeno.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo write-up.
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Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Barranco del Pajarejo.
Red rock, dark pines and a sky that seems higher than it should be: that is the country south of Albarracín, where the Barranco del Pajarejo cuts into the sandstone. Geologists call this stone rodeno, a coarse red sandstone that weathers into towers, overhangs and smooth shelters, and prehistoric people used those shelters as canvases. The Pinares de Rodeno protected landscape around Albarracín holds a well-known group of painted shelters with bulls, deer and human figures in white and red, and this gully is part of that wider area, quiet and seldom visited.
Read the complete Barranco del Pajarejo write-up.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Barranco del Pajarejo. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo, late in the day. Next is Cueva de la Peña de la morería.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Peña de la morería write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de la Peña de la morería. That is the ride.
Cueva de la Peña de la morería → Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo → Barranco del Pajarejo is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranco del Pajarejo → back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente del Cabrerizo → Cueva de la Peña de la morería is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.