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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A 308 km round trip from Urzainqui - roughly 5 h 38 in the saddle. It goes by way of Abrigo de Los Gitanos, Forau del Cocho and back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Aztaparreta is a beech forest that has been left alone. High in the Pyrenees of Navarre, at the head of the Roncal valley, in the karst massif of Larra-Belagua on the border with France, this forest has never been logged, and its trees, some of them centuries old, grow, die and decay naturally. It is one of the components of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a World Heritage Site that brings together beech forests from across the continent, from the Carpathians to the Pyrenees. Walking through it is like entering a cathedral, with tall grey trunks, a green canopy high above, and a thick carpet of moss and fallen leaves.
Read the complete Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
The road north-west out of Huesca toward Pamplona runs along the foot of a dramatic wall of rock. To the north are the Pre-Pyrenean sierras, and studded along them are some of Aragón's most striking sights: the Castle of Loarre, a superbly preserved Romanesque fortress on a spur, and the Mallos de Riglos, huge red conglomerate towers rising straight out of the hillside. The rock shelter known as the Abrigo de los Gitanos lies in this country, between Ayerbe, Loarre and Luesia.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
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Abrigo de Los Gitanos comes up about 94 km into the recorded legs. Next is Forau del Cocho.
South of Huesca the land opens out. The Pyrenees are behind you, a snowy line on a clear day, and ahead stretches the gently rolling cereal country that eventually turns into the dry steppes of Los Monegros. Forau del Cocho lies in this transitional landscape, between Torres de Barbués, Almuniente and the outskirts of Huesca itself, a place where the only relief is the occasional low ridge or gully cut into soft rock.
Read the complete Forau del Cocho write-up.
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about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach Forau del Cocho. Next is back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos, late in the day. Next is Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta. That is the ride.
Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta → Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Forau del Cocho is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Forau del Cocho → back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.