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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A 333 km round trip from Bielsa - roughly 6 h 30 in the saddle. On the way it passes Arpán E 2, Les Coves and back through Arpán E 2. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 65 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de Revilla is where the day begins. Next is Arpán E 2.
The Río Vero is not a big river, but it has spent a very long time doing something clever with the limestone of the Sierra de Guara. Above Alquézar it has cut a gorge that narrows to a few metres in places and widens again into pools the colour of bottle glass, and the plateau on both sides is a dry country of box, holm oak and aromatic scrub that bears almost no relation to the water below. Arpán is a small side-valley three kilometres from the village, a short walk off the road, and its shelter is one of several in the Vero canyon system that carry painted figures from the ancient hunters of the Levantine tradition.
Read the complete Arpán E 2 write-up.
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Arpán E 2 comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Les Coves.
The western edge of Catalonia, around Lleida, is fruit country. Irrigation canals bring water from the Pyrenean rivers to a broad, flat plain of orchards growing apples, pears and peaches, laid out in neat lines that stretch to the horizon. Les Coves lies in this area, close to the Aragonese border, between Alfarràs, Albelda and Algerri, where the valley of the Noguera Ribagorçana spills out of the hills and onto the plain.
Read the complete Les Coves write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 166 km into the recorded legs you reach Les Coves. Next is back through Arpán E 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Arpán E 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Arpán E 2, 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 → Arpán E 2 is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Arpán E 2 → Les Coves is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Les Coves → back through Arpán E 2 is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Arpán E 2 → Cueva de Revilla is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.