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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145 km from Albalate del Arzobispo to Albalate del Arzobispo, about 3 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Covacho Ahumado, Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester and back through Covacho Ahumado. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Río Martín is a modest stream that has done something dramatic. Over a very long time, it has cut a deep, narrow gorge through the pale limestone of the Bajo Aragón, with walls that crowd in on either side, and the stretch the locals call Los Estrechos, the Narrows, is where the cleft is tightest. The shelter at Los Estrechos II lies about five kilometres from Albalate del Arzobispo, and is one of the sites along the river protected by a cultural park. It carries painting in the Levantine tradition, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain, and the ride links it to the Abrigo de la Higuera, the Fig-Tree Shelter.
Read the complete Los Estrechos II write-up.
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Los Estrechos II is where the day begins. Next is Covacho Ahumado.
The name means the smoky little shelter, and it fits: a modest overhang darkened by soot, one of the rock art sites around Alacón in the Río Martín Cultural Park in Teruel province. The Martín river has carved canyons through limestone here, and its walls hold dozens of painted panels, from naturalistic Levantine hunting scenes to the later schematic style of stick figures and symbols. Alacón alone has several groups of shelters, and the park has an interpretation centre in the area to explain them.
Read the complete Covacho Ahumado write-up.
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Covacho Ahumado comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester.
The Río Martín country of Teruel is a place of deep gorges and bare, honey-coloured hills, and Oliete and Estercuel are two of its tiny villages. The Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is a small shelter in a side ravine, named for the fig tree that grows at its mouth, and it holds paintings that belong to the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin, as protected by UNESCO. The pictures include the small red figures of the Levantine tradition, and the setting, under an overhang of golden rock, is a good place to sit and think about how few things have changed in the landscape.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester write-up.
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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester. Next is back through Covacho Ahumado.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Covacho Ahumado write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Covacho Ahumado, late in the day. Next is Los Estrechos II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Los Estrechos II write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Los Estrechos II. That is the ride.
Los Estrechos II → Covacho Ahumado is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Covacho Ahumado → Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Higuera del Barranco de Ester → back through Covacho Ahumado is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Covacho Ahumado → Los Estrechos II is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.