CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Lozna it runs 348 km to Lozna; allow about 7 h 50 of riding. The stops in between: Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului, Dobricel - Vârful Lazului, Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci and Salva - Dealul Dumbravă. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Lozna is a village in the northern hills of Sălaj county, close to the Someș river, a place of small farms, orchards and wooden houses, and Curmăturița is a saddle in the hills above it, where a Roman watchtower is thought to have stood. The northern frontier of Roman Dacia ran through this area, following ridges and river valleys, and small towers and forts were placed to watch over the approaches. Today there is little to see, but the view from the saddle, over the rolling hills and the Someș valley, is lovely, and it explains why the Romans chose the spot.
Read the complete Lozna - Curmăturița 1 write-up.
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Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is where the day begins. Next is Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului.
The name is a mouthful, and a good one: the Ridge of the Wolf's Clearing, on the hill of Muncel, above the Someș valley north-east of Dej. Somewhere along this wooded crest the Romans kept a lookout on the northern border of Dacia, watching the valleys for movement from the free tribes beyond. Watchtowers like this one were the eyes of the frontier, signalling to the forts below, and the site is part of the Dacian frontier inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. On the ground, expect very little: perhaps a low mound, a ditch or scattered stones under the trees. It is a place for imagination and a walk rather than a monument.
Read the complete Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului write-up.
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Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului comes up 35 km in. Next is Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
Spermezeu is the kind of place a road atlas barely notices: a commune of scattered villages in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud, in northern Transylvania, between the upper Someș valley and the Țibleș mountains. The site of Dobricel, on the hilltop known as Vârful Lazului, is one of the many archaeological places recorded in the area, a high point above the valleys where traces of earlier inhabitants have been noted. There is not much to see without an archaeologist's eye, but the hilltop and the country around it are a good excuse for a ride through a region few foreigners ever visit.
Read the complete Dobricel - Vârful Lazului write-up.
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71 km in you reach Dobricel - Vârful Lazului. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, about halfway. Next is Salva - Dealul Dumbravă.
The Someșul Mare valley around Năsăud was a frontier long before the Habsburgs made it one again. The Romans built watchtowers on the hills here to guard the northern edge of Dacia, and Salva - Dealul Dumbravă, the hill of the oak grove near the village of Salva, is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of the Dacian frontier in 2024. Sixteen centuries later, the Habsburg empire turned the region into a military border district, and the Năsăud border regiment, made up of local Romanian peasants, guarded the Carpathian passes in return for privileges and education.
Read the complete Salva - Dealul Dumbravă write-up.
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Salva - Dealul Dumbravă sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
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back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci comes up 177 km in. Next is back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului.
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212 km in you reach back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului. Next is back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului.
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back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului, late in the day. Next is Lozna - Curmăturița 1.
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The route ends here after 348 km.
Lozna - Curmăturița 1 → Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului → Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Salva - Dealul Dumbravă is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Salva - Dealul Dumbravă → back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dobricel - Vârful Lazului → back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Muncel - Muchia Poienii Lupului → Lozna - Curmăturița 1 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.