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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Orbara it runs 377 km to Orbara; allow about 6 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Cueva de los moros., Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Cueva de los moros.. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 101 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Irati forest, straddling the border between Navarre and the French Basque Country, is one of the largest beech and fir forests in Europe, and Lizardoia is its wildest heart. This is a strictly protected reserve of primeval beech forest, where the trees have been left to grow, age and fall without human intervention, and it was inscribed in 2017 among Europe's ancient beech forests. Walking in the forest, you are surrounded by massive grey trunks, moss, ferns and the silence of a cathedral, broken only by birdsong and the rustle of leaves. Woodpeckers, including the rare white-backed woodpecker, live here, along with deer, wild boar and, in the high pastures, griffon vultures soaring overhead.
Read the complete Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia is where the day begins. Next is Cueva de los moros., 68 km on.
There is a Cueva de los Moros in half the valleys of Spain. Every unexplained cave, ruin or rock shelter used to be credited to the Moors, and this one, in the hills of the western Aragonese Pyrenees between the valleys of Hecho and Ansó, is a rock shelter with ancient traces. You should approach it as an excuse to spend time in two of the most beautiful and least spoiled valleys of the Pyrenees, rather than as a monument.
Read the complete Cueva de los moros. write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Cueva de los moros. comes up about 88 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 189 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Cueva de los moros., 68 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de los moros. write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Cueva de los moros., late in the day. Next is Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia. That is the ride.
Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia → Cueva de los moros. is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de los moros. → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Cueva de los moros. is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cueva de los moros. → Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.