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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Selva di Cadore it runs 124 km to Selva di Cadore; allow about 2 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of The Dolomites, Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles and back through The Dolomites. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 25 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go — slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
For about 37 km this is Passo di Giau · Dolomites, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Monte Pelmo is the mountain that looks like a throne. Its huge limestone mass, rising to 3,168 metres, has two summits linked by a great curved basin, and the people of the Cadore call it the Caregon del Padreterno, the armchair of God. It stands alone between the valleys of the Boite and the Fiorentina, and in 1857 it became the first major Dolomite peak to be climbed, by the Irish naturalist John Ball. Across the valley, the jagged towers of the Croda da Lago rise above the little Lago Federa, and the two together form one of the components of the Dolomites World Heritage site.
Read the complete Pelmo-Croda da Lago write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pelmo-Croda da Lago is where the day begins. Next is The Dolomites.
North of Cortina d'Ampezzo, the valley narrows between walls of pale rock, and the road toward Dobbiaco threads through a landscape that looks almost too dramatic to be real. Here, between the Cristallo group to the east and the high plateaus of Fanes and Sennes to the west, you are in the heart of the Dolomites, the mountains UNESCO inscribed in 2009 for their extraordinary beauty and geology. The rock is dolomite, a magnesium-rich limestone formed from ancient coral reefs in a tropical sea some two hundred and fifty million years ago, and the way it catches the evening light, turning pink and orange, has a name of its own in the local Ladin language: enrosadira.
Read the complete The Dolomites write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Dolomites comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles.
Above Selva in Val Gardena and the villages of Val Badia, the Puez-Odle massif shows the Dolomites at their most theatrical: the jagged spires of the Odle, or Geisler, piercing the sky like a row of broken teeth, and behind them the Puez plateau, a strange high desert of grey scree, layered rock and hidden lakes. The area is a nature park in South Tyrol and one of the nine components of the Dolomites World Heritage site, listed by UNESCO in 2009 for its exceptional landscapes and geology.
Read the complete Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles. Next is back through The Dolomites.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Dolomites write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Dolomites, late in the day. Next is Pelmo-Croda da Lago.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pelmo-Croda da Lago write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pelmo-Croda da Lago. That is the ride.
Pelmo-Croda da Lago → The Dolomites is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Dolomites → Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles → back through The Dolomites is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Dolomites → Pelmo-Croda da Lago is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.