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.
394 km from Bárcabo to Bárcabo, about 7 h 00 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de Los Gitanos, Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta and back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 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 Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
The road north-west out of Huesca toward Pamplona runs along the foot of a dramatic wall of rock. To the north are the Pre-Pyrenean sierras, and studded along them are some of Aragón's most striking sights: the Castle of Loarre, a superbly preserved Romanesque fortress on a spur, and the Mallos de Riglos, huge red conglomerate towers rising straight out of the hillside. The rock shelter known as the Abrigo de los Gitanos lies in this country, between Ayerbe, Loarre and Luesia.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abrigo de Los Gitanos comes up about 103 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta.
Aztaparreta is a beech forest that has been left alone. High in the Pyrenees of Navarre, at the head of the Roncal valley, in the karst massif of Larra-Belagua on the border with France, this forest has never been logged, and its trees, some of them centuries old, grow, die and decay naturally. It is one of the components of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a World Heritage Site that brings together beech forests from across the continent, from the Carpathians to the Pyrenees. Walking through it is like entering a cathedral, with tall grey trunks, a green canopy high above, and a thick carpet of moss and fallen leaves.
Read the complete Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta. Next is back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Los Gitanos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos, 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 → Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hayedos de Navarra - Aztaparreta → back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abrigo de Los Gitanos → Mascún I is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.