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: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 199 km round trip from Bárcabo - roughly 4 h 37 in the saddle. The stops in between: Malforá I, El Remosillo and back through Malforá I. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Malforá I.
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 comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is El Remosillo.
If you ride north from Barbastro toward Graus, the Ésera river eventually forces its way through a ridge of limestone, and the result is the Congosto de Olvena, a short, deep gorge with the road squeezed between rock and water. Up on the cliffs around here are rock shelters with prehistoric paintings, and El Remosillo is one of the best known in this corner of Aragón, between Estadilla, Graus and Fonz.
Read the complete El Remosillo write-up.
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about 99 km into the recorded legs you reach El Remosillo. Next is back through 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 through Malforá I, late in the day. Next is 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 at Mascún I. That is the ride.
Mascún I → Malforá I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Malforá I → El Remosillo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → back through Malforá I is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Malforá I → Mascún I is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.