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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A 199 km round trip from Bárcabo - roughly 4 h 36 in the saddle. It goes by way of Mallata B 1, El Remosillo and back through Mallata B 1. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Mallata B 1.
There is a shelter near Alquézar that people call Mallata, and a ravine of the same name, and on a summer weekend you could miss both while looking for a parking space. The Barranco de la Mallata is a narrow side-canyon of the Vero, a few kilometres from Alquézar, and it holds shelters that have become famous among specialists for their Levantine paintings. Mallata B1 is one of them, a small, shaded hollow where the paint has survived better than you might expect.
Read the complete Mallata B 1 write-up.
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Mallata B 1 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 Mallata B 1.
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Read the complete Mallata B 1 write-up.
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back through Mallata B 1, late in the day. Next is 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 at Mascún V. That is the ride.
Mascún V → Mallata B 1 is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mallata B 1 → El Remosillo is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
El Remosillo → back through Mallata B 1 is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mallata B 1 → Mascún V is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.