CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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119 km from Bystrytsya to Bystrytsya, about 3 h 18 of riding. The stops in between: Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, Svydovets and back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Gorgany are the wildest part of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a range of sandstone peaks rising above dense forests in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. What makes them unusual are the gorgany themselves, the fields of loose stone blocks that cover the upper slopes and summits, formed by frost shattering the rock. Walking across them is slow and tiring, and the forests below, of spruce, beech and Swiss stone pine, are among the most pristine in Ukraine, with brown bears, wolves, lynx and red deer. The Gorgany nature reserve protects a part of this landscape.
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Gorgany is where the day begins. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension comes up 26 km in. Next is Svydovets.
The Svydovets is a long, high ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians, rising above the upper Tisza valley near the town of Rakhiv in Zakarpattia. Its southern and northern slopes hold some of the wildest primeval beech forest left in Europe, protected as part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Above the trees lie broad alpine meadows, the polonyna, where Hutsul shepherds traditionally drove their flocks each summer, with glacial lakes tucked below the ridge.
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52 km in you reach Svydovets. Next is back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension write-up.
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back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, late in the day. Next is Gorgany.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gorgany write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Gorgany. That is the ride.
Gorgany → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Svydovets is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Svydovets → back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Gorgany is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.