CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 408 km round trip from Bárcabo - roughly 6 h 47 in the saddle. The stops in between: Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, Cueva de los moros. and back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 71 km this is Pyrenees N260 Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mallata I is where the day begins. Next is Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Monte Perdido, the lost mountain, at 3,355 metres, is the highest limestone massif in Europe and the centrepiece of a cross-border World Heritage site shared by Spain and France. On the Spanish side, it gives its name to the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, with deep canyons radiating out from the summit; on the French side, it looks down on the great cirques of Gavarnie and Troumouse.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu comes up 79 km in. Next is Cueva de los moros., 80 km on.
There is a Cueva de los Moros in half the valleys of Spain. Every unexplained cave, ruin or rock shelter used to be credited to the Moors, and this one, in the hills of the western Aragonese Pyrenees between the valleys of Hecho and Ansó, is a rock shelter with ancient traces. You should approach it as an excuse to spend time in two of the most beautiful and least spoiled valleys of the Pyrenees, rather than as a monument.
Read the complete Cueva de los moros. write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
159 km in you reach Cueva de los moros.. Next is back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pyrénées - Mont Perdu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu, 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 → Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Cueva de los moros. is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de los moros. → back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pyrénées - Mont Perdu → Mallata I is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.