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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261 km from Bárcabo to Bárcabo, about 5 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of Abrigo de Arilla, Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña and back through Abrigo de Arilla. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Somontano, the land at the foot of the mountains, is the soft belt of the Huesca province, where the high Pyrenees give way to rolling hills of vines, almonds and olives, and the Sierra de Guara rises like a wall to the north. Muriecho is a hamlet in that country, and the shelter that carries its name, Muriecho L, lies about five kilometres from Alquézar. It holds painting in the Levantine style, protected by UNESCO as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean basin in Spain, and the ride links it with El Remosillo and Mascún V, other shelters in the canyons of the Guara.
Read the complete Muriecho L write-up.
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Muriecho L is where the day begins. Next is Abrigo de Arilla.
The Sierra de Guara is the southern edge of the Pyrenees, a rough range of sandstone and limestone where rivers have cut deep, dark canyons that are among the best in Europe for canyoning. The Abrigo de Arilla lies in that country, well off the main roads, in the lonely hills between Alquézar and the Sierra, and is one of the rock shelters of the Río Vero cultural park. The paintings are mostly Levantine and schematic, thousands of years old, and are part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art that UNESCO listed in 1998. Reaching the shelters generally requires a walk, and regulations apply.
Read the complete Abrigo de Arilla write-up.
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Abrigo de Arilla comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña.
Just north of Huesca, where the flat cereal land of the Hoya suddenly rears up into the first limestone walls of the Pre-Pyrenees, lies the little village of Nueno and, above it, the rock shelter named after Santa Eulalia de la Peña. This is the southern edge of the Sierra de Guara country, a landscape of gorges, conglomerate cliffs and scrub where griffon vultures ride the thermals and the light comes hard off pale stone.
Read the complete Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña write-up.
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about 130 km into the recorded legs you reach Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña. Next is back through Abrigo de Arilla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abrigo de Arilla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abrigo de Arilla, late in the day. Next is Muriecho L.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Muriecho L write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Muriecho L. That is the ride.
Muriecho L → Abrigo de Arilla is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Arilla → Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abrigo de Santa Eulaliade la Peña → back through Abrigo de Arilla is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abrigo de Arilla → Muriecho L is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.