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 183 km round trip from Stârciu - roughly 3 h 38 in the saddle. It goes by way of Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus, Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii, Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha and back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The hills of Sălaj between Buciumi, Stârciu and Cizer are a landscape of small villages, orchards, pastures and woods, and like much of this county, they were part of the northwestern frontier of Roman Dacia. Hurez, Sub Cornet, is one of the sites of that frontier listed by UNESCO in 2024, probably a watchtower or a stretch of defensive earthwork on a ridge, part of the chain of military posts that linked the forts. Little is visible on the ground today, and the site is better appreciated as part of a wider landscape of Roman frontier archaeology.
Read the complete Hurez - Sub Cornet write-up.
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Hurez - Sub Cornet is where the day begins. Next is Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus.
The Romans did not build their frontier in Dacia as a single wall. They built it as a chain of forts, watchtowers and signal posts along the crest of the Meseș mountains in what is now north-western Romania, and Moigrad is where the chain had its main fortress. The ancient town was called Porolissum, and it controlled the Meseș Gate, a natural pass through the ridge, where merchants paid customs and soldiers watched for raiders from the north. Walk the site today and you find an amphitheatre, a forum, a temple, stretches of the fort wall and long grassy slopes, all overlooking the green valley below.
Read the complete Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus write-up.
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Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
Surduc is a village in the Someș valley in Sălaj county, north-western Romania, where the river cuts a narrow path through hills on its way toward Baia Mare. Above the village, on a ridge overlooking the valley of the Hrăii stream, there are traces of a Roman watchtower, part of the frontier of the province of Dacia. The nearby villages of Tihău and Băbeni, and the town of Jibou, are all close by.
Read the complete Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii write-up.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii. Next is Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha.
Ileanda is a village in the north of Sălaj county, where the river Someș swings north-west out of the Transylvanian basin through a valley flanked by wooded hills. On the hill called Ciuha, above the village, the Romans had a post on the northern edge of their province of Dacia, one of the watchtowers and forts that guarded the frontier from the second to the third century. The site belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. Do not expect a ruin with walls to wander through: what survives is mostly earthwork and traces in the ground, and the joy lies in the climb and the view rather than the remains.
Read the complete Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha write-up.
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Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha, about halfway. Next is back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii.
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Read the complete Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii write-up.
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back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus.
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Read the complete Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus write-up.
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back through Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus comes up about 153 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hurez - Sub Cornet.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurez - Sub Cornet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hurez - Sub Cornet closes the day.
Hurez - Sub Cornet → Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus → Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha → back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Surduc - Deasupra Văii Hrăii → back through Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moigrad - La Poiana de Sus → Hurez - Sub Cornet is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.