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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From Bielsa it runs 696 km to Bielsa; allow about 11 h 59 of riding. The stops in between: Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez, 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.
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 de la Ermita de San Urbez.
The Añisclo canyon is one of the deepest and narrowest in the Spanish Pyrenees, a cleft in the limestone of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, and the road that runs through its lower section is one of the most remarkable in Aragon. At its southern end, beside an old stone bridge over the Bellós river, stands the hermitage of San Úrbez, built half into the cliff, with a cave behind it where tradition says the saint lived as a hermit. Close by, rock shelters hold traces of prehistoric painting.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez.
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Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, about halfway. 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.
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Abrigo del Camino sits at 348 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
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Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu comes up about 519 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez.
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Read the complete Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez write-up.
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about 573 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
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back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, late in the day. Next is Cueva de Revilla.
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Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
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The route ends here after 696 km.
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 de la Ermita de San Urbez is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez → Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Abrigo del Camino is 171 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del Camino → back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 171 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Ermita de San Urbez → back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 54 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.