CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Poiana Blenchii it runs 494 km to Poiana Blenchii; allow about 11 h 16 of riding. It goes by way of Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, Maramarosh and back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Romania into Ukraine - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
In northern Transylvania, where the Someș river winds through low hills between Dej and Beclean, the Roman Empire once ran out of land and patience. The province of Dacia, conquered by Trajan in the early second century, had a long and complicated frontier, and in 2024 parts of it were added to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Muncel–Cărămidă is one of those components, a small military site above the valley near Poiana Blenchii, part of a network of watchtowers and forts that guarded the northern edge of the province. The big fort of Porolissum, near Zalău to the west, with its reconstructed gate, gives you a sense of what the bigger garrisons looked like.
Read the complete Muncel - Cărămidă write-up.
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Muncel - Cărămidă is where the day begins. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
The Țibleș massif rises like a dark green wall between Maramureș and the Bistrița country of northern Romania, an old volcanic range topped by the Țibleș peak at around eighteen hundred metres. On its southern flanks, above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, lie the forests of Preluci, part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe that UNESCO has protected as one sprawling, multi-country site. These are woods left largely to themselves, where old beeches grow huge, fall, rot and feed the next generation without a forester in sight.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci comes up 61 km in. Next is Maramarosh.
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.
Read the complete Maramarosh write-up.
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123 km in you reach Maramarosh. Next is back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci write-up.
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back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci, late in the day. Next is Muncel - Cărămidă.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Muncel - Cărămidă write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Muncel - Cărămidă. That is the ride.
Muncel - Cărămidă → Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Maramarosh is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maramarosh → back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Groșii Țibleșului - Preluci → Muncel - Cărămidă is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.