CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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512 km from Nimigea de Sus to Nimigea de Sus, about 12 h 42 of riding. On the way it passes Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii, Wooden Churches of Maramureş, Chornohora and Gorgany. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 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.
Țara Năsăudului, the Land of Năsăud, is a hilly corner of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Romania, and it has a strong sense of its own identity. In the eighteenth century the Habsburgs organised the villages here into a military frontier district, with a Romanian border regiment that defended the empire's eastern edge in return for freedom from serfdom. The people of the area were proud of that status, and the schools and institutions founded with the regiment's funds helped create a remarkable tradition of learning. Two of Romania's best-loved writers grew up nearby: the poet George Coșbuc, born in the village that now bears his name, and the novelist Liviu Rebreanu, whose books describe the lives of Transylvanian peasants.
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Perisor - Corobana is where the day begins. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii.
The Țibleș mountains rise like a dark wall between the Lăpuș country and the valleys of Maramureș, a volcanic range of dense spruce and beech forest topping out at nearly two thousand metres. On their slopes, near the source known as Izvorul Șurii above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, the forest feels almost untouched: springs bubbling out of mossy banks, fallen trunks covered in fungi, and a silence broken only by woodpeckers and the wind. This is bear country, and wolves and lynx roam these woods too. The area lies on the edge of the Maramureș region, famous for its wooden churches, carved gates and deeply traditional village life.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii comes up 47 km in. Next is Wooden Churches of Maramureş.
Maramureș is a region in the far north of Romania, along the Ukrainian border, where traditions have survived more strongly than almost anywhere else in Europe. Its villages are known for their carved wooden gates, their haystacks and their wooden churches, eight of which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bârsana, in the valley of the Iza river, has one of them, a church built in the eighteenth century, with a tall slender spire and a steep shingled roof.
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94 km in you reach Wooden Churches of Maramureş. Next is Chornohora.
Chornohora, the Black Mountain, is the highest range of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a long ridge of rounded summits above the forests on the border between the Zakarpattia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Its highest peak, Hoverla, rises to 2,061 metres, the highest point in Ukraine, and on summer weekends it can be busy with hikers. Along the ridge to the southeast stands Pip Ivan, crowned by the ruins of an astronomical and meteorological observatory built by Poland in the 1930s, when this was the border with Czechoslovakia. Locals call it the White Elephant, and seeing it loom out of the mist is unforgettable.
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Chornohora, about halfway. 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 sits at 188 km, about halfway. Next is back through Chornohora.
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back through Chornohora comes up 234 km in. Next is back through Wooden Churches of Maramureş.
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281 km in you reach back through Wooden Churches of Maramureş. Next is back through Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii.
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back through Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii, late in the day. Next is Perisor - Corobana.
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The route ends here after 512 km.
Perisor - Corobana → Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii → Wooden Churches of Maramureş is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of Maramureş → Chornohora is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chornohora → Gorgany is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → back through Chornohora is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chornohora → back through Wooden Churches of Maramureş is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wooden Churches of Maramureş → back through Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii → Perisor - Corobana is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.