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 264 km round trip from Confrides - roughly 5 h 49 in the saddle. It goes by way of Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2, Cueva de la Clau, Cova de la Petxina and back through Cueva de la Clau. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Inland from Benidorm, barely half an hour from the high-rise towers and the beach crowds, the mountains of Alicante rise steeply and the whole mood changes. The Port de Confrides is the saddle on the CV-70 between the Guadalest valley and the upland basin of Confrides and Benasau, with the long limestone wall of the Sierra de Aitana to the south. Aitana, at 1,558 metres, is the highest peak in the province, and on a clear winter morning you can see the sea glittering behind you as you climb.
Read the complete Port de Confrides- Abric I write-up.
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Port de Confrides- Abric I is where the day begins. Next is Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2, 27 km on.
Local walkers call it the cathedral of hiking, and once you have seen the Barranc de l'Infern you understand why. This deep limestone gorge, between the Vall de Laguar and the Vall d'Ebo in the mountains behind Dénia, is crossed by an old Moorish mule path that descends and climbs again by thousands of stone steps, carved and built into the rock walls over centuries. The route, a classic day walk, is spectacular and exhausting, with the gorge narrowing at its deepest point to a passage between towering walls. The gorge also holds prehistoric rock art in its shelters, and the sites grouped as Conjunt 2 are among them, part of the wider family of Mediterranean rock art protected by UNESCO.
Read the complete Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 write-up.
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Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de la Clau.
Behind Gandia, the orange groves climb into the folded limestone hills of La Safor, and among the tiny villages there, Palma de Gandía and Ador sit almost touching each other at the foot of the slopes. Cueva de la Clau is one of the many rock shelters in the Valencian hills that form part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a scattered collection of hundreds of sites where prehistoric people painted hunters, animals, dancers and abstract signs on limestone overhangs.
Read the complete Cueva de la Clau write-up.
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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de la Clau. Next is Cova de la Petxina.
Bellús is a small village in the valley of the Albaida river in southern Valencia, just upstream from where the river flows into a reservoir and then joins the Júcar. The old village was partly flooded by the reservoir, and the new one stands on higher ground. The Cova de la Petxina, the cave of the shell, is in the hills near the village, close to Guadasequies and Genovés.
Read the complete Cova de la Petxina write-up.
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Cova de la Petxina, about halfway. Next is back through Cueva de la Clau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cueva de la Clau write-up.
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back through Cueva de la Clau sits at 108 km, about halfway. Next is back through Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2, 27 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 comes up about 212 km into the recorded legs. Next is Port de Confrides- Abric I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Port de Confrides- Abric I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Port de Confrides- Abric I closes the day.
Port de Confrides- Abric I → Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 → Cueva de la Clau is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cueva de la Clau → Cova de la Petxina is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cova de la Petxina → back through Cueva de la Clau is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cueva de la Clau → back through Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Barranc de l'Infern Conj. 2 → Port de Confrides- Abric I is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.