Why this ride
A 299 km round trip from Nimigea de Sus - roughly 5 h 58 in the saddle. On the way it passes Glod - Toaca Glodului 2, Zalău - Poieniță and back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Perișor - Vârful Colnicului and Zalău - Poieniță
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 299 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 58
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Perișor - Vârful Colnicului
The upper valley of the Zagra stream, in the hills of Bistrița-Năsăud county in northern Transylvania, is the sort of place that has produced poets. The village of Hordou, now named Coșbuc, birthplace of the poet George Coșbuc, lies not far away, near Năsăud, and Liviu Rebreanu, one of Romania's great novelists, was born in Târlișua, a little to the west. The hills around Perișor and Zagra, with the summit called Vârful Colnicului, are a landscape of meadows, beech woods and scattered farms that seems to have stepped out of their books.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Colnicului write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Perișor - Vârful Colnicului is where the day begins. Next is Glod - Toaca Glodului 2.
2. Glod - Toaca Glodului 2
East of Jibou the Someș river squeezes through a narrower valley, and around Ileanda the hills close in, wooded and steep, with villages tucked wherever there is room for a few houses and gardens. Glod is a tiny settlement in these hills, and Toaca Glodului is the local name of a height above it; toaca, by the way, is the wooden board struck to call monks to prayer, and hills with that name often have a commanding view. Like many points with this naming pattern in Sălaj, it is listed with the Roman frontier of Dacia, where watchtowers and small forts guarded the approaches to the province. On the ground you should expect little more than traces in a field or woodland, so come for the setting.
Read the complete Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zalău - Poieniță.
3. Zalău - Poieniță
Poieniță is a small poiană, which is the Romanian word for a clearing in the forest, and a clearing is a good place to begin talking about mushrooms. Around Zalău, from late summer to the first frosts, the woods are full of people with baskets and plastic bags, wandering slowly between the beech trunks with their eyes on the ground. The Poieniță point lies a few kilometres outside the town, on the wooded edge of the Meseș foothills, and it belongs to a tradition of foraging that has not died out with the arrival of supermarkets.
Read the complete Zalău - Poieniță write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 149 km into the recorded legs you reach Zalău - Poieniță. Next is back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2.
4. back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2, late in the day. Next is Perișor - Vârful Colnicului.
5. Perișor - Vârful Colnicului
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Colnicului write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Perișor - Vârful Colnicului. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Perișor - Vârful Colnicului to Glod - Toaca Glodului 2
Perișor - Vârful Colnicului → Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 to Zalău - Poieniță
Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 → Zalău - Poieniță is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zalău - Poieniță to back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2
Zalău - Poieniță → back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 to Perișor - Vârful Colnicului
back through Glod - Toaca Glodului 2 → Perișor - Vârful Colnicului is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.