CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Kolomyia it runs 325 km to Kolomyia; allow about 8 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of Gorgany, Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, Maramarosh and back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 51 km in. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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101 km in you reach Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension. 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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Maramarosh, about halfway. Next is back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
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back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension sits at 203 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gorgany.
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back through Gorgany comes up 253 km in. Next is Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of.
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Nyzhniy Verbizh-Tserkva of the Nativity of closes the day.
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 → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Maramarosh is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maramarosh → back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → back through Gorgany is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.