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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From Orbara it runs 444 km to Orbara; allow about 8 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta, Cueva de los moros., Abrigo de Los Gitanos and Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
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Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia is where the day begins. Next is Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta.
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.
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Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de los moros., 41 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.
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about 101 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de los moros.. 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.
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Abrigo de Los Gitanos, about halfway. 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.
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Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña sits at 164 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
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back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos comes up about 287 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Cueva de los moros., 41 km on.
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about 344 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Cueva de los moros.. Next is back through Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta.
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back through Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta, 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.
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The route ends here after 444 km.
Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia → Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta → Cueva de los moros. is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de los moros. → Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos → back through Cueva de los moros. is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de los moros. → back through Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta → Hayedos de Navarra - Lizardoia is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.