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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Alquézar it runs 261 km to Alquézar; allow about 4 h 31 of riding. The stops in between: Mascún I, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Mascún I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Sierra de Guara is where the Pyrenean foothills turn to stone. Limestone ridges, deep canyons and rocky crags form a country that is famous among canyoners, and the Vero river runs through the middle in a gorge of pale, polished rock. Alquézar, a village of only about 300 people, perches on a rocky spur over the river, with a collegiate church and a castle on top, and its narrow lanes are among the most photographed in Aragon. It was once a Moorish stronghold, and in the eleventh century it fell to the Christian king Sancho Ramírez, an event that marks the early Reconquista in this region.
Read the complete Malforá I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Malforá I is where the day begins. Next is Mascún I.
The Mascún gorge is one of the great pieces of rock in the Sierra de Guara, a canyon with walls that rise several hundred metres, and it is the reason the village of Rodellar has become a pilgrimage site for climbers. Mascún I is a small shelter on the high ground above, in a district of cliffs, pines and thin soil, and it belongs to the Mediterranean-arc rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998. I can tell you that you will not have to share the view with a crowd. This is one of the emptiest corners of the Pyrenean foothills.
Read the complete Mascún I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mascún I comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Mascún I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mascún I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mascún I, late in the day. Next is Malforá I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Malforá I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Malforá I. That is the ride.
Malforá I → Mascún I is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mascún I → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Mascún I is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mascún I → Malforá I is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.