CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Kolomyia it runs 325 km to Kolomyia; allow about 8 h 07 of riding. The stops in between: Gorgany, Maramarosh and back through Gorgany. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The wooden church of Nyzhniy Verbizh stands in the foothills of the Carpathians, in the Pokuttya region of western Ukraine, close to the Prut river and the old town of Kolomyia. It is one of the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region listed by UNESCO in 2013, a group of sixteen churches in Ukraine and Poland that show how the Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities of the mountains developed a tradition of building in timber that mixed Byzantine plans with local carpentry. Like others in the group, this one has a cross-shaped plan with tiered roofs and a small tower, and is raised from squared logs with shingles on the roofs, in a form that dates from the early 1800s.
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Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of is where the day begins. Next is Gorgany.
The Gorgany are the wildest part of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a range of sandstone peaks rising above dense forests in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. What makes them unusual are the gorgany themselves, the fields of loose stone blocks that cover the upper slopes and summits, formed by frost shattering the rock. Walking across them is slow and tiring, and the forests below, of spruce, beech and Swiss stone pine, are among the most pristine in Ukraine, with brown bears, wolves, lynx and red deer. The Gorgany nature reserve protects a part of this landscape.
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Gorgany comes up 76 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.
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152 km in you reach Maramarosh. Next is back through Gorgany.
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back through Gorgany, late in the day. Next is Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of. That is the ride.
Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of → Gorgany is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Gorgany → Maramarosh is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Maramarosh → back through Gorgany is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Gorgany → Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.