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 291 km round trip from Osilnica - roughly 5 h 32 in the saddle. It goes by way of Količa na Igu, Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the and back through Količa na Igu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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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Krokar is where the day begins. Next is Količa na Igu.
The Ljubljana Marsh is a wide, flat plain of peat and wet meadow south of the city, drained since the eighteenth century by canals, and it hides one of the most interesting stories in European prehistory. Some five thousand years ago people built houses on stilts here, at the edge of lakes that have since vanished, and the remains of their villages lie preserved in the peat. The pile dwellings near Ig are part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, shared with five other countries.
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Količa na Igu comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
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.
Read the complete Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the write-up.
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about 142 km into the recorded legs you reach Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the. Next is back through Količa na Igu.
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Read the complete Količa na Igu write-up.
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back through Količa na Igu, late in the day. Next is Krokar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Krokar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Krokar. That is the ride.
Krokar → Količa na Igu is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Količa na Igu → Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the → back through Količa na Igu is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Količa na Igu → Krokar is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.