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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Yeste it runs 150 km to Yeste; allow about 4 h 46 of riding. On the way it passes Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo, Abrigo de las Cañadas I and back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Some places on a map feel remote; this one actually is. The point named Diosa Madre, mother goddess, lies in the mountains of the Sierra de Segura, in the far southwest of Albacete province, roughly sixteen kilometres from Yeste and not far from the border with Jaén. The mountains themselves are the real experience.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Diosa madre is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo.
Nerpio sits high in the Sierra del Segura, in the southwest of Albacete, about eleven hundred metres up, and it feels like an outpost of the Andalusian mountains that happens to be in Castile-La Mancha. The village is small, with roughly sixteen hundred people, and the countryside around is a deep, rumpled landscape of pine forest, rock outcrops and tiny cultivated valleys. More than forty rock shelters with paintings have been found in the area, making Nerpio one of the richest places for prehistoric art in Spain, with paintings in red showing animals, hunters and abstract signs.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de las Cañadas I.
High up in the Sierra del Segura, where the province of Albacete meets Granada and Jaén, the village of Nerpio sits at around eleven hundred metres in a country of oak, pine and bare limestone. The Abrigo de las Cañadas, a rock shelter, lies about twelve kilometres from the village among its dry gullies, in one of the most thinly settled corners of Castilla-La Mancha.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de las Cañadas I. Next is back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo, late in the day. Next is Diosa madre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Diosa madre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Diosa madre. That is the ride.
Diosa madre → Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo → Abrigo de las Cañadas I is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañadas I → back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo → Diosa madre is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.