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 267 km round trip from Yeste - roughly 9 h 04 in the saddle. On the way it passes Abrigo de la fuente del Sapo, Abrigo de las Cañadas I, molino de las fuentes I and Abrigo de las Cañadas II. 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.
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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.
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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.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de las Cañadas I. Next is molino de las fuentes I.
A mill is a good reason to remember how much of the old Spanish countryside ran on water. Molino de las Fuentes lies close to Nerpio, in the same high valley of the Sierra de Segura, where springs rise from limestone and feed small channels that were once enough to turn a millstone. The name means the Mill of the Springs, and it is a suitable one in a landscape with plenty of them. Around the mill the land is a mixture of orchard and scrub, with poplars along the water and a sharp smell of damp earth and mint on summer evenings.
Read the complete molino de las fuentes I write-up.
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molino de las fuentes I, about halfway. Next is Abrigo de las Cañadas II.
Nerpio is about as remote as mainland Spain gets. The village sits in the far southwest corner of Albacete province, in the Sierra de Segura, where the mountains of Andalusia, Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha meet, and the rock shelters scattered around it make up one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric art in the region. The Abrigo de las Cañadas II belongs to that group, an overhang in the hills between Nerpio and the high plateaus toward Huéscar and Yeste.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas II write-up.
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Abrigo de las Cañadas II sits at 67 km, about halfway. Next is back through molino de las fuentes I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete molino de las fuentes I write-up.
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back through molino de las fuentes I comes up about 167 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de las Cañadas I write-up.
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about 192 km into the recorded legs you reach back through 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.
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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.
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The route ends here after 267 km.
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 → molino de las fuentes I is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
molino de las fuentes I → Abrigo de las Cañadas II is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de las Cañadas II → back through molino de las fuentes I is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through molino de las fuentes I → back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.