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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638 km from Moratalla to Moratalla, about 13 h 37 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de la Llagosa, Letreros de los mártires, Cañada de la Cruz and Abrigo del.melgar. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
34 km on Molino de Capel I → Abrigo de la Llagosa.
Moratalla stands at the north-west corner of Murcia like a lookout post, and the highlands behind it feel far from the coast. The town is crowned by a medieval castle and its streets run down a steep hillside, and the municipality covers a huge area of pine forest, ravines and rock shelters, many of them holding prehistoric paintings that now sit on the World Heritage list. The Molino de Capel, a watermill name from a rural spot in the hills near the Albacete border, belongs to that scattered countryside, where old farms, mills and caves sit in a landscape of rosemary, thyme and holm oak.
Read the complete Molino de Capel I write-up.
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Molino de Capel I is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de la Llagosa.
The upper Segura valley, south of Nerpio, is a world of cliffs and reservoirs, and the place called La Llagosa lies in the middle of it. This is the Sierra de Segura, a limestone massif that forms part of one of Spain's biggest natural parks, the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, a UNESCO biosphere reserve. It is a land of pine forest and rocky ridges, where the Segura and its tributaries cut deep valleys, and the landscape is dotted with small villages like Yeste and Letur, whose white houses cluster on rocky spurs.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Llagosa write-up.
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Abrigo de la Llagosa comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Letreros de los mártires.
Out in the high north-east of Granada province, Huéscar feels a long way from the Alhambra and the beaches of the Costa Tropical. This is the altiplano, a broad upland of wheat fields, almond trees and pale badlands at around a thousand metres, ringed by mountains, with the great limestone hump of La Sagra rising to the north. The rock shelter called Letreros de los Mártires lies in this country, a dozen or so kilometres from the town.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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about 110 km into the recorded legs you reach Letreros de los mártires. Next is Cañada de la Cruz.
The Cañada de la Cruz is a high valley or drovers' pasture in the Segura mountains; cañada is the word for the traditional livestock routes and grazing grounds used by shepherds moving their flocks between summer and winter pastures, and this part of Spain has a long history of transhumance.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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Cañada de la Cruz, about halfway. Next is Abrigo del.melgar, 42 km on.
Quesada is a white town at the foot of the Sierra de Cazorla, in the province of Jaén, surrounded by an ocean of olive trees. The groves stretch to the horizon in every direction, a landscape that makes Jaén the world's largest producer of olive oil. Behind the town, the mountains rise steeply, with pine forest and limestone cliffs, and the Guadalquivir river has its source not far away. The Abrigo del Melgar lies in the hills just outside the town.
Read the complete Abrigo del.melgar write-up.
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Abrigo del.melgar sits at 167 km, about halfway. Next is back through Cañada de la Cruz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cañada de la Cruz write-up.
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back through Cañada de la Cruz comes up about 455 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Letreros de los mártires.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Letreros de los mártires write-up.
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about 524 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Letreros de los mártires. Next is back through Abrigo de la Llagosa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de la Llagosa write-up.
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back through Abrigo de la Llagosa, late in the day. Next is Molino de Capel I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Molino de Capel I write-up.
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The route ends here after 638 km.
Molino de Capel I → Abrigo de la Llagosa is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de la Llagosa → Letreros de los mártires is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Letreros de los mártires → Cañada de la Cruz is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cañada de la Cruz → Abrigo del.melgar is 128 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo del.melgar → back through Cañada de la Cruz is 145 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cañada de la Cruz → back through Letreros de los mártires is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Letreros de los mártires → back through Abrigo de la Llagosa is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de la Llagosa → Molino de Capel I is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.