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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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
105 km from Bárcabo to Bárcabo, about 1 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of 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.
Mallata I lies four and a half kilometres from Alquézar in the heart of the Vero valley, and to understand it you have to follow the river. The Vero rises in the Sierra de Guara and flows south-east through a deep, winding gorge, past Alquézar and Barbastro, before joining the Cinca. The gorge is lined with cliffs of sandstone and limestone, stained in orange and grey, and in places it narrows so that a footpath has been bolted to the rock face above the water. It is a hawk's-eye view of a river carving a valley.
Read the complete Mallata I write-up.
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Mallata I 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 17 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.
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about 53 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 I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mallata I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mallata I. That is the ride.
Mallata I → Mascún V is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mascún V → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 36 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 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mascún V → Mallata I is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.