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.
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A 261 km round trip from Bárcabo - roughly 4 h 31 in the saddle. The stops in between: Mascún V, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Mascún V. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
There is a shelter near Alquézar that people call Mallata, and a ravine of the same name, and on a summer weekend you could miss both while looking for a parking space. The Barranco de la Mallata is a narrow side-canyon of the Vero, a few kilometres from Alquézar, and it holds shelters that have become famous among specialists for their Levantine paintings. Mallata B1 is one of them, a small, shaded hollow where the paint has survived better than you might expect.
Read the complete Mallata B 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mallata B 1 is where the day begins. Next is Mascún V.
The Barranco de Mascún is one of the great canyons of the Sierra de Guara, a limestone range in the pre-Pyrenees of Huesca, where rivers have carved deep, narrow gorges, caves and towers into the rock. The canyon, near the village of Rodellar, is famous among climbers for its overhanging walls and among canyoners for its pools and waterfalls, and it also holds traces of prehistoric painting in its shelters. Mascún V is one of these sites, part of the group of Mediterranean rock art sites listed by UNESCO, and the setting, with sheer orange and grey walls rising above the river, is extraordinary.
Read the complete Mascún V write-up.
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Mascún V 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 V.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mascún V write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mascún V, late in the day. Next is Mallata B 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mallata B 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mallata B 1. That is the ride.
Mallata B 1 → Mascún V is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mascún V → 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 V is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mascún V → Mallata B 1 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.