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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295 km from Idrija to Idrija, about 5 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Kolišča na Igu, Krokar and back through Kolišča na Igu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Deep in a wooded gorge above Idrija, where the stream called Idrijska Bela tumbles over pale limestone, stands one of the strangest pieces of old engineering in Slovenia: a klavže, a water barrier built of massive dressed stone blocks across the narrow valley. Its job had nothing to do with power or flood control. Idrija's mercury mine, one of the two largest in the world for centuries, devoured timber for its shafts and smelters, and the forests close to town were soon exhausted. So the miners built these dams on mountain streams, let water build up behind them, piled cut logs in the bed below and then opened the gates. The released flood swept the timber all the way down to Idrija, where it was caught at a rake across the river.
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Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is where the day begins. Next is Kolišča na Igu.
The oldest wheel in the world was found in a peat bog in Slovenia, and the bog is the Ljubljana Marshes. Archaeologists working here in 2002 pulled out a wooden wheel with its axle, dating from around 3100 BC, which is now in the city museum in Ljubljana. The find was made close to the village of Ig, a few kilometres south of the capital, where for centuries people built houses on stilts above the wet ground. The pile dwellings at Ig, called Kolišča in Slovenian, are one of the settlements that UNESCO lists among the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
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Kolišča na Igu comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Krokar.
Krokar is one of the last true virgin forests in Europe, a reserve of beech and fir on a steep slope above the Kolpa river in southern Slovenia, where humans have never logged or managed the woods. Trees grow, fall and rot as they have done since the end of the Ice Age, and the result is an extraordinary tangle of giant trunks, dead wood and fresh saplings, home to fungi, beetles and birds that need old, undisturbed forest. Since 2017, Krokar has been part of the UNESCO site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. The reserve itself is strictly protected and not open to visitors; you can walk along its edge, but the heart of it is left alone, which is precisely the point.
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about 139 km into the recorded legs you reach Krokar. Next is back through Kolišča na Igu.
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back through Kolišča na Igu, late in the day. Next is Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
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Read the complete Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the write-up.
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Back at Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the. That is the ride.
Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the → Kolišča na Igu is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kolišča na Igu → Krokar is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Krokar → back through Kolišča na Igu is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kolišča na Igu → Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.