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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470 km from Bielsa to Bielsa, about 8 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, Abrigo del Camino and back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Revilla is one of the most spectacularly placed hamlets in the Spanish Pyrenees, perched on a ledge above the Garganta de Escuaín, a deep gorge cut into the limestone of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. It looks down into the canyon from a terrace of meadows, with the high peaks behind. The Cueva de Revilla is a cave in the cliffs near the hamlet, and the area between Bielsa, Plan and Boltaña is some of the wildest country in Aragón.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
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Cueva de Revilla is where the day begins. Next is Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Monte Perdido, the lost mountain, at 3,355 metres, is the highest limestone massif in Europe and the centrepiece of a cross-border World Heritage site shared by Spain and France. On the Spanish side, it gives its name to the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, with deep canyons radiating out from the summit; on the French side, it looks down on the great cirques of Gavarnie and Troumouse.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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Pyrénées - Mont Perdu comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo del Camino.
The Sierra de Guara is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a limestone range cut by canyons so deep and narrow that they have made the area a centre for canyoning. The river Vero runs through one of them, a gorge of pale rock and clear green pools, and at its mouth stands the village of Alquézar, whose collegiate church and castle dominate a rocky spur above the water. The Abrigo del Camino is one of the painted shelters in this country, part of the Levantine rock art of the Mediterranean arc that UNESCO lists, in a landscape that suits prehistoric hunters well.
Read the complete Abrigo del Camino write-up.
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about 236 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo del Camino. Next is back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, late in the day. Next is Cueva de Revilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva de Revilla. That is the ride.
Cueva de Revilla → Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Abrigo del Camino is 169 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Camino → back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 169 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Cueva de Revilla is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.