CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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858 km from Rakhiv to Rakhiv, about 20 h 03 of riding. On the way it passes Svydovets, Gorgany, Synevyr - Strymba and Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil. 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.
On the map, the line between Romania and Ukraine runs along the Tisza river here, and on either side of it the Carpathians rise in forested ridges. Maramarosh is the old name for the whole region, Maramureș to Romanians, and it is also the name of a protected forest within the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the Ukrainian side, one component of the World Heritage inscription for ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe. These are forests where beech trees have grown undisturbed since the last ice age, with giants several hundred years old and a richness of life that has vanished from most of Europe.
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Maramarosh is where the day begins. Next is Svydovets.
The Svydovets is a long, high ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians, rising above the upper Tisza valley near the town of Rakhiv in Zakarpattia. Its southern and northern slopes hold some of the wildest primeval beech forest left in Europe, protected as part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Above the trees lie broad alpine meadows, the polonyna, where Hutsul shepherds traditionally drove their flocks each summer, with glacial lakes tucked below the ridge.
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Svydovets comes up 49 km in. Next is Gorgany.
The Gorgany are the wildest part of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a range of sandstone peaks rising above dense forests in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. What makes them unusual are the gorgany themselves, the fields of loose stone blocks that cover the upper slopes and summits, formed by frost shattering the rock. Walking across them is slow and tiring, and the forests below, of spruce, beech and Swiss stone pine, are among the most pristine in Ukraine, with brown bears, wolves, lynx and red deer. The Gorgany nature reserve protects a part of this landscape.
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98 km in you reach Gorgany. Next is Synevyr - Strymba.
In the Carpathian mountains of Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine, the forests around Synevyr include some of the last remaining primeval beech forests in Europe, part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Strymba is one of the protected forest areas, in the hills near the village of Kolochava, where beech trees grow old and die without human interference, creating a rich habitat for fungi, insects, birds and animals.
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Synevyr - Strymba, about halfway. Next is Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil.
In Transcarpathia, the westernmost corner of Ukraine, the Carpathians drop down to a plain that feels more Central European than Eastern. The region was part of Hungary for a thousand years, then Czechoslovakia, then briefly independent, then the Soviet Union and finally Ukraine, and the villages carry a mix of languages, churches and foods. Zacharovanyi Krai, the Enchanted Land, is the name of a nature park in the hills of this region, with beech forests, meadows, mineral springs and small rivers.
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Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil sits at 196 km, about halfway. Next is back through Synevyr - Strymba.
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back through Synevyr - Strymba comes up 245 km in. Next is back through Gorgany.
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294 km in you reach back through Gorgany. Next is back through Svydovets.
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back through Svydovets, late in the day. Next is Maramarosh.
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The route ends here after 858 km.
Maramarosh → Svydovets is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Svydovets → Gorgany is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → Synevyr - Strymba is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Strymba → Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → back through Synevyr - Strymba is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Strymba → back through Gorgany is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gorgany → back through Svydovets is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Svydovets → Maramarosh is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.