CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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207 km from Valea Vișeului to Valea Vișeului, about 5 h 28 of riding. On the way it passes Maramarosh, Chornohora, Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension and Svydovets. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The river Tisza runs fast and green out of the Ukrainian Carpathians, and for many kilometres it forms the border between Romania and Ukraine. On the Ukrainian bank, the forests of Kuziy and Trybushany are among the primeval beech woods protected in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and listed by UNESCO as part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. From the Romanian side, around Valea Vișeului, you look across the river at steep, wooded slopes where the trees have grown and died without interference for centuries.
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Kuziy - Trybushany is where the day begins. Next is Maramarosh.
On the map, the line between Romania and Ukraine runs along the Tisza river here, and on either side of it the Carpathians rise in forested ridges. Maramarosh is the old name for the whole region, Maramureș to Romanians, and it is also the name of a protected forest within the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the Ukrainian side, one component of the World Heritage inscription for ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe. These are forests where beech trees have grown undisturbed since the last ice age, with giants several hundred years old and a richness of life that has vanished from most of Europe.
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Maramarosh comes up 21 km in. Next is Chornohora.
Chornohora, the Black Mountain, is the highest range of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a long ridge of rounded summits above the forests on the border between the Zakarpattia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Its highest peak, Hoverla, rises to 2,061 metres, the highest point in Ukraine, and on summer weekends it can be busy with hikers. Along the ridge to the southeast stands Pip Ivan, crowned by the ruins of an astronomical and meteorological observatory built by Poland in the 1930s, when this was the border with Czechoslovakia. Locals call it the White Elephant, and seeing it loom out of the mist is unforgettable.
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42 km in you reach Chornohora. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, about halfway. Next is Svydovets.
The Svydovets is a long, high ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians, rising above the upper Tisza valley near the town of Rakhiv in Zakarpattia. Its southern and northern slopes hold some of the wildest primeval beech forest left in Europe, protected as part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Above the trees lie broad alpine meadows, the polonyna, where Hutsul shepherds traditionally drove their flocks each summer, with glacial lakes tucked below the ridge.
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Svydovets sits at 85 km, about halfway. Next is back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
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back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension comes up 106 km in. Next is back through Chornohora.
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127 km in you reach back through Chornohora. Next is back through Maramarosh.
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back through Maramarosh, late in the day. Next is Kuziy - Trybushany.
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The route ends here after 207 km.
Kuziy - Trybushany → Maramarosh is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maramarosh → Chornohora is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chornohora → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Svydovets is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Svydovets → back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → back through Chornohora is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chornohora → back through Maramarosh is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maramarosh → Kuziy - Trybushany is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.