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: producer-declared routed record.
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A 217 km round trip from Nimigea de Sus - roughly 4 h 36 in the saddle. It goes by way of Ilișua - Țibleș, Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii, Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha and back through Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Perișor lies in the hills north of Năsăud, in the county of Bistrița-Năsăud, and Vârful Zgăului is the hilltop to which the label points. Zagra and Spermezeu are the nearest villages, while the great wall of the Rodna Mountains stands to the east, the highest part of the northern Eastern Carpathians, with peaks over two thousand metres and glacial lakes among the crags. The Rodna range is a national park and a biosphere reserve, home to chamois, marmots, brown bears and a rich alpine flora. On a clear day the sharp, pale line of the ridge can be seen from many of the hills around.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Zgăului write-up.
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Perișor - Vârful Zgăului is where the day begins. Next is Ilișua - Țibleș.
Ilișua is a small village near Uriu in the valley of the Someș Mare, and in Roman times it was the site of a fort guarding the northern frontier of Dacia. The fort, known in antiquity as Arcobara, housed a cavalry unit, and archaeologists have uncovered its walls, gates and buildings, along with inscriptions and finds now displayed in museums in the region. Like the other sites of the Roman frontier in Romania, it is part of a nomination for UNESCO world heritage, and like most of them, it is now largely fields and grassy banks, with little to see above ground but a great deal of history beneath.
Read the complete Ilișua - Țibleș write-up.
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Ilișua - Țibleș comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii.
North of Dej, the Someș river winds through a land of soft hills, orchards and scattered villages, and on the ridges above it the Romans once kept watch over the northern frontier of their province of Dacia. Chiuiești, a commune of small villages spread across the hills, is one of the places where archaeologists have identified the remains of watchtowers on high points along the frontier, including one on the hill known as Dealul Crucii, the Hill of the Cross. Little survives above ground beyond low mounds and traces in the grass, but the sites are included in the World Heritage inscription of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Dacia, added in 2024.
Read the complete Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii write-up.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii. Next is Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha.
Ileanda is a village in the north of Sălaj county, where the river Someș swings north-west out of the Transylvanian basin through a valley flanked by wooded hills. On the hill called Ciuha, above the village, the Romans had a post on the northern edge of their province of Dacia, one of the watchtowers and forts that guarded the frontier from the second to the third century. The site belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Dacia, inscribed by UNESCO in 2024. Do not expect a ruin with walls to wander through: what survives is mostly earthwork and traces in the ground, and the joy lies in the climb and the view rather than the remains.
Read the complete Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha write-up.
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Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha, about halfway. Next is back through Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii.
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Read the complete Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii write-up.
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back through Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ilișua - Țibleș.
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Read the complete Ilișua - Țibleș write-up.
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back through Ilișua - Țibleș comes up about 187 km into the recorded legs. Next is Perișor - Vârful Zgăului.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Perișor - Vârful Zgăului write-up.
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Perișor - Vârful Zgăului closes the day.
Perișor - Vârful Zgăului → Ilișua - Țibleș is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ilișua - Țibleș → Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii → Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ileanda - Dealul Ciuha → back through Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chiuiești - Dealul Crucii → back through Ilișua - Țibleș is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ilișua - Țibleș → Perișor - Vârful Zgăului is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.