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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324 km from Nerpio to Nerpio, about 8 h 19 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de las Cañadas I, Letreros de los mártires, Cañada de la Cruz and back through Letreros de los mártires. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Nerpio is the kind of place that makes you check the map twice. It sits at the head of the Taibilla valley in the far south-west of Albacete province, on a high plateau more than a kilometre above sea level, in the Sierra de Segura, surrounded by mountains and reachable only by long and winding roads. The village is small, with about 1,600 people, and the countryside around it is a mix of cherry orchards, almond groves, pasture and pine forest, with limestone crags and the cold, clear water of the Taibilla river cutting through the valley floor.
Read the complete Fuente Serrano I write-up.
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Fuente Serrano I is where the day begins. 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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Abrigo de las Cañadas I comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Letreros de los mártires. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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Cañada de la Cruz, about halfway. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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back through Letreros de los mártires sits at 118 km, about halfway. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I comes up about 292 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fuente Serrano I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fuente Serrano I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fuente Serrano I closes the day.
Fuente Serrano I → 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 → Letreros de los mártires is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → Cañada de la Cruz is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → back through Letreros de los mártires is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Letreros de los mártires → back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de las Cañadas I → Fuente Serrano I is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.