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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Alquézar it runs 106 km to Alquézar; allow about 1 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Mascún V, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Mascún V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
On a clear day, from the high ground north of Alquézar, you can see the Pyrenees laid out like a wall, with snow on the crests until June and the long grey ridge of the Sierra de Guara in the foreground. Ereta de Litonares lies about three kilometres from the village, and the word ereta, a small threshing floor, hints at the open, level patches of rock and earth that farmers used to thresh grain in the wind. A threshing floor needs a breeze and a view, and so does anyone who wants to look at mountains.
Read the complete Ereta de Litonares write-up.
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Ereta de Litonares is where the day begins. Next is Mascún V.
The Barranco de Mascún is one of the great canyons of the Sierra de Guara, a limestone range in the pre-Pyrenees of Huesca, where rivers have carved deep, narrow gorges, caves and towers into the rock. The canyon, near the village of Rodellar, is famous among climbers for its overhanging walls and among canyoners for its pools and waterfalls, and it also holds traces of prehistoric painting in its shelters. Mascún V is one of these sites, part of the group of Mediterranean rock art sites listed by UNESCO, and the setting, with sheer orange and grey walls rising above the river, is extraordinary.
Read the complete Mascún V write-up.
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Mascún V comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Mascún V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mascún V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mascún V, late in the day. Next is Ereta de Litonares.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ereta de Litonares write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ereta de Litonares. That is the ride.
Ereta de Litonares → Mascún V is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mascún V → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Mascún V is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mascún V → Ereta de Litonares is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.