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 310 km round trip from Corbanese - roughly 6 h 03 in the saddle. The stops in between: Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave, Marmolada and back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 84 km this is Passo di Giau · Dolomites, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
These are not soft, rolling wine hills. Between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, the foothills of the Pre-Alps rise in steep hogback ridges, sharp crests of rock running east to west, with vines clinging to slopes so steep that much of the work is still done by hand. Grass-covered terraces called ciglioni hold the soil in place, and the result is a patchwork of vines, woods and small villages that UNESCO listed in 2019.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is where the day begins. Next is Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave.
The Friulian Dolomites are the quiet cousins of the famous peaks around Cortina, and that is precisely their charm. West of the Tagliamento, between the Piave and the Friulian plain, these rugged limestone mountains rise in jagged ridges and pinnacles, with deep valleys and very few roads. They are part of the UNESCO Dolomites site and form the Parco Naturale delle Dolomiti Friulane, a wild area of forests, gorges and rock towers, including the extraordinary Campanile di Val Montanaia, a needle of rock standing alone in a high valley like a stone bell tower. Chamois, ibex, golden eagles and marmots live here, and the silence on the high trails is profound.
Read the complete Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Marmolada.
The Queen of the Dolomites, they call her, and the Marmolada earns the title: at 3,343 metres, Punta Penia is the highest summit of the range, and its northern flank carries the largest glacier in the Dolomites, while the south face drops away as a sheer wall of pale limestone. That glacier is shrinking fast, and in July 2022 a large section of it collapsed, killing eleven climbers, a tragedy that brought the effects of climate change home to everyone who loves these mountains.
Read the complete Marmolada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 155 km into the recorded legs you reach Marmolada. Next is back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave, late in the day. Next is Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va. That is the ride.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → Marmolada is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Marmolada → back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.