CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 324 km round trip from Stârciu - roughly 6 h 12 in the saddle. The stops in between: Brebi - Comorâște, Valea Leșului - Țiclău, Guga - Vârful Țâglii and Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 Brebi - Comorâște.
The hill of Comorâște, above the village of Brebi in Sălaj county, overlooks the Someș valley as it turns north towards Jibou, and its name hints at buried treasure, comoară, which is how villagers often explained odd mounds and old stones on their land. Archaeologists explain it more prosaically as a Roman watch site on the north-western frontier of Dacia, part of the line of towers and forts strung along the Meseș hills and inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. From the top you can see across the valley to the forested ridges that once marked the edge of the empire.
Read the complete Brebi - Comorâște write-up.
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Brebi - Comorâște comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Valea Leșului - Țiclău.
The Someș river does most of the work here. Flowing west and then north out of Transylvania, it has carved a valley through the hills of Sălaj county, and near the villages of Lozna and Letca the slopes close in, wooded and steep, with small clearings and hay meadows. On the ridges above, the Romans built watchtowers to guard the northern edge of Dacia, and the remains near Valea Leșului and Țiclău are among the sites included in the UNESCO frontier listing. Today they are little more than grassy hollows and stone scatters, visited by archaeologists and the occasional curious walker.
Read the complete Valea Leșului - Țiclău write-up.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Valea Leșului - Țiclău. Next is Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
Rugășești, Vad and Poiana Blenchii are the kind of villages most people drive past on the way to somewhere else, and that is precisely the charm of the hills that rise between them. The point marked as Guga, Vârful Țâglii, lies on this rolling country north of the Someș, roughly a dozen kilometres from Dej, in the band of land where Rome drew the northern edge of Dacia. A summit called Țâglii is the sort of place where a watchtower would have looked out across the Someș corridor toward the free tribes beyond, and the archaeological lists record a frontier site here.
Read the complete Guga - Vârful Țâglii write-up.
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Guga - Vârful Țâglii, about halfway. Next is Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1.
A valley is the simplest of landscapes, and the one that goes by the name of Valea Leșului lies in the hills of Sălaj, in the north-west of Romania, a few kilometres from the village of Lozna. The second part of the ride title, Piciorul Andreichii, uses the word for foot in the sense of a spur of land running down a hillside, so the label describes a ridge beside a stream, and again it comes from an archaeological register.
Read the complete Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 write-up.
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Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 sits at 136 km, about halfway. Next is back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
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back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii comes up about 206 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău.
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about 249 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău. Next is back through Brebi - Comorâște.
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back through Brebi - Comorâște, late in the day. Next is Hurez - Sub Cornet.
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Read the complete Hurez - Sub Cornet write-up.
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The route ends here after 324 km.
Hurez - Sub Cornet → Brebi - Comorâște is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Brebi - Comorâște → Valea Leșului - Țiclău is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valea Leșului - Țiclău → Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guga - Vârful Țâglii → Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valea Leșului - Piciorul Andreichii 1 → back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii → back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Valea Leșului - Țiclău → back through Brebi - Comorâște is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Brebi - Comorâște → Hurez - Sub Cornet is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.