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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From Bystrytsya it runs 589 km to Bystrytsya; allow about 10 h 08 of riding. The stops in between: Synevyr - Kvasovets, Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka and back through Synevyr - Kvasovets. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 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.
Read the complete Gorgany write-up.
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Gorgany is where the day begins. Next is Synevyr - Kvasovets.
Up in the Carpathians of Transcarpathia lies the largest lake in the Ukrainian mountains, and a legend that explains it. Synevyr, set in a bowl of spruce forest at just under a thousand metres, is said to have been born from the tears of a count's daughter, Syn, who fell in love with a herdsman, Vyr, and was parted from him. Her father killed the young man, and she wept so much that the tears made the lake, which is why its name is Syn-Vyr. Whatever the truth, the lake is beautiful, dark and still, with a small island and a wooden pavilion on its shore, and the National Park around it is among the finest in the Carpathians.
Read the complete Synevyr - Kvasovets write-up.
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Synevyr - Kvasovets comes up about 147 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka.
Transcarpathia is the tucked-away corner of Ukraine, on the far side of the mountains from the rest of the country, and it feels like it. The region, known in Ukrainian as Zakarpattia, was part of Hungary for a thousand years, and later of Czechoslovakia, before the Soviet Union took it in 1945, so the villages mix Ukrainian, Hungarian, Romanian and Rusyn traditions. The Zacharovanyi Krai, the Enchanted Land, is a nature park in the hills near the town of Irshava, a country of beech and oak forest, orchards, and folds of low mountains on the edge of the Carpathian foothills.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka write-up.
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about 296 km into the recorded legs you reach Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka. Next is back through Synevyr - Kvasovets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Synevyr - Kvasovets write-up.
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back through Synevyr - Kvasovets, 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 → Synevyr - Kvasovets is 147 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Kvasovets → Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka is 149 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka → back through Synevyr - Kvasovets is 149 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Kvasovets → Gorgany is 147 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.