CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 394 km round trip from Groșii Țibleșului - roughly 8 h 27 in the saddle. On the way it passes Sita - Vârful Sitii, Chiuiești - Dealul Podului, Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor and Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1. The line favours views over speed.
The Țibleș mountains rise like a dark wall between the Lăpuș country and the valleys of Maramureș, a volcanic range of dense spruce and beech forest topping out at nearly two thousand metres. On their slopes, near the source known as Izvorul Șurii above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, the forest feels almost untouched: springs bubbling out of mossy banks, fallen trunks covered in fungi, and a silence broken only by woodpeckers and the wind. This is bear country, and wolves and lynx roam these woods too. The area lies on the edge of the Maramureș region, famous for its wooden churches, carved gates and deeply traditional village life.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii is where the day begins. Next is Sita - Vârful Sitii.
On a hilltop near the village of Spermezeu, in the Someș hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, a small watchtower once stood guard over the northern edge of the Roman Empire. When the emperor Trajan conquered Dacia in the early second century, the Romans built a frontier around their new province, the Dacian limes, a chain of forts, watchtowers and earthworks running along the Carpathians and through the hills. Vârful Sitii, the summit of Sita, was one of the observation points, chosen because from here soldiers could watch the valleys to the north and send signals to the forts behind them.
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Sita - Vârful Sitii comes up 35 km in. Next is Chiuiești - Dealul Podului.
The hills above the Someș valley northeast of Dej roll away in long green waves, and the commune of Chiuiești sprawls across them in a scatter of hamlets, each tucked into its own fold of land. Dealul Podului, the Hill of the Bridge, is one of the ridges where traces of a Roman watchtower have been found, part of the chain of observation points that guarded the northern frontier of Dacia. The frontier was not a wall but a network of forts, towers and roads, and the Romans placed their towers where they could see far across the valleys and signal to one another. The site is one of the components of the World Heritage site of the Dacian frontier, although on the ground you will see little more than the shape of the hill and perhaps a low mound.
Read the complete Chiuiești - Dealul Podului write-up.
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70 km in you reach Chiuiești - Dealul Podului. Next is Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor.
A ridge called Dealul Hoancelor does not make it onto many maps, and the place is better understood from the landscape around it. This is the country of the Someș river in the north of Transylvania, between the Meseș mountains in the west and the hills of the Transylvanian plain to the east, and the valleys are broad, green and thickly farmed. The nearest places on our list are tiny villages, Lozna and Letca, and the closest town, Jibou, is about twenty kilometres away.
Read the complete Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor write-up.
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Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor, about halfway. Next is Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1.
Vârful Cigleanului is a hilltop above the Someș valley in Sălaj, in that mild, folded part of northwestern Romania where the land rises in wooded ridges toward the Meseș mountains. The name simply means the peak of the Ciglean, and like many hill labels in Transylvania it points to an old vantage point more than a famous summit. The ground is orchard and pasture on the lower slopes, oak and beech on the higher, and on a clear day the view runs along the river toward Jibou.
Read the complete Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 write-up.
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Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor.
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back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor comes up 174 km in. Next is back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului.
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Read the complete Chiuiești - Dealul Podului write-up.
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209 km in you reach back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului. Next is back through Sita - Vârful Sitii.
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back through Sita - Vârful Sitii, late in the day. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii.
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Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii write-up.
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The route ends here after 394 km.
Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii → Sita - Vârful Sitii is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sita - Vârful Sitii → Chiuiești - Dealul Podului is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiuiești - Dealul Podului → Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor → Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ciglean - Vârful Cigleanului 1 → back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Negreni - Dealul Hoancelor → back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chiuiești - Dealul Podului → back through Sita - Vârful Sitii is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sita - Vârful Sitii → Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.