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 300 km round trip from Bárcabo - roughly 5 h 33 in the saddle. It goes by way of Forau del Cocho, Abrigo de Los Gitanos and back through Forau del Cocho. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Sierra de Guara, in the province of Huesca, is a limestone range riddled with canyons, and the river Vero cuts one of the most beautiful of them, a deep, narrow gorge of grey and ochre cliffs where vultures nest and the water runs clear over pale stones. Along its walls, prehistoric people left paintings in dozens of rock shelters, and the Cueva Peña Miel I is one of them, part of the UNESCO listing of rock art of the Mediterranean Basin. The Río Vero Cultural Park protects the area, with an interpretation centre in Colungo and guided visits to some of the shelters.
Read the complete Cueva Peña Miel I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva Peña Miel I is where the day begins. Next is Forau del Cocho.
South of Huesca the land opens out. The Pyrenees are behind you, a snowy line on a clear day, and ahead stretches the gently rolling cereal country that eventually turns into the dry steppes of Los Monegros. Forau del Cocho lies in this transitional landscape, between Torres de Barbués, Almuniente and the outskirts of Huesca itself, a place where the only relief is the occasional low ridge or gully cut into soft rock.
Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
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Forau del Cocho comes up about 88 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
The road north-west out of Huesca toward Pamplona runs along the foot of a dramatic wall of rock. To the north are the Pre-Pyrenean sierras, and studded along them are some of Aragón's most striking sights: the Castle of Loarre, a superbly preserved Romanesque fortress on a spur, and the Mallos de Riglos, huge red conglomerate towers rising straight out of the hillside. The rock shelter known as the Abrigo de los Gitanos lies in this country, between Ayerbe, Loarre and Luesia.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
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about 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Los Gitanos. Next is back through Forau del Cocho.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Forau del Cocho, late in the day. Next is Cueva Peña Miel I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva Peña Miel I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cueva Peña Miel I. That is the ride.
Cueva Peña Miel I → Forau del Cocho is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forau del Cocho → Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Los Gitanos → back through Forau del Cocho is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Forau del Cocho → Cueva Peña Miel I is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.