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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358 km from Molveno to Molveno, about 7 h 09 of riding. The stops in between: Fiavé-Lago Carera, Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d, Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te and back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 27 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go — slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
28 km that neither climbs nor drops much. The road settles into the ground rather than fighting it. This is where a day makes up time without anyone trying. Third and fourth, and very little else.
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The Brenta Dolomites stand apart from the rest of the Dolomites, a separate range west of the Adige valley, and they look as if they were carved by someone with a taste for drama: sheer walls, needle-sharp spires and long ledges of pale limestone glowing pink at dawn and dusk. The range is part of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site, listed in 2009, and it is protected within the Adamello Brenta Nature Park, home to brown bears, which were reintroduced here from Slovenia around the turn of the millennium.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
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Dolomiti di Brenta is where the day begins. Next is Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Lago Carera is barely a lake any more: a damp, reedy hollow and peat bog below the village of Fiavè, in the Giudicarie valleys of western Trentino. Yet in the Bronze Age this was a lakeshore crowded with houses on wooden piles, and the waterlogged peat preserved their timbers, tools and food remains for three and a half thousand years. Fiavè is one of the pile-dwelling sites of the transnational World Heritage Site covering prehistoric settlements around the Alps, and a museum in the village shows what came out of the bog.
Read the complete Fiavé-Lago Carera write-up.
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Fiavé-Lago Carera comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d.
Valcamonica is a long, narrow valley that runs north from Lake Iseo into the Alps, and for about eight thousand years people have been carving pictures on its rocks. The Camuni, an Iron Age people, left the most, but the earliest carvings belong to hunters of the end of the ice age, and the latest belong to medieval travellers. In all, there are hundreds of thousands of figures, scratched or pecked into smooth glacial sandstone: deer, warriors, ploughmen, huts, maps, dancers and strange sun-like symbols. In 1979 it became the first site in Italy to be placed on the World Heritage list.
Read the complete Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d. Next is Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te.
Valcamonica, the long valley of the Oglio river north of Lake Iseo, holds one of the largest collections of prehistoric rock carvings in the world, with hundreds of thousands of figures pecked into smooth glacier-polished rocks over thousands of years. It was the first site in Italy to be listed by UNESCO, in 1979. The Luine park, on a wooded hill above Darfo Boario Terme at the southern end of the valley, is one of the places where you can see these engravings up close, with paths leading between rock surfaces covered in figures of animals, people, weapons and mysterious symbols.
Read the complete Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te write-up.
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Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te, about halfway. Next is back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fiavé-Lago Carera.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fiavé-Lago Carera write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fiavé-Lago Carera comes up about 323 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dolomiti di Brenta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti di Brenta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dolomiti di Brenta closes the day.
Dolomiti di Brenta → Fiavé-Lago Carera is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fiavé-Lago Carera → Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d is 116 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d → Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Parco Comunale di Luine di Darfo-Boario Te → back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri d → back through Fiavé-Lago Carera is 119 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fiavé-Lago Carera → Dolomiti di Brenta is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.