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 622 km round trip from Selva - roughly 11 h 13 in the saddle. It goes by way of The Dolomites, Marmolada, Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine and Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 106 km this is Passo di Giau · Dolomites, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
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.
Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles 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 106 km into the recorded legs. Next is Marmolada.
The Queen of the Dolomites, they call her, and the Marmolada earns the title: at 3,343 metres, Punta Penia is the highest summit of the range, and its northern flank carries the largest glacier in the Dolomites, while the south face drops away as a sheer wall of pale limestone. That glacier is shrinking fast, and in July 2022 a large section of it collapsed, killing eleven climbers, a tragedy that brought the effects of climate change home to everyone who loves these mountains.
Read the complete Marmolada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Marmolada. Next is Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine.
North of Cortina d'Ampezzo, the Dolomites change character. The soft meadows and pine woods of the Ampezzo basin give way to long grey screes, vertical walls and the pale towers that make the range so unmistakable, and the road toward Cimabanche runs through a valley framed by some of the most dramatic rock in Europe. This area belongs to the northern Cadore group in UNESCO's Dolomites listing of 2009, nine separate systems recognised for their landscape and their geology.
Read the complete Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine, about halfway. Next is Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave.
The Friulian Dolomites are the quiet cousins of the famous peaks around Cortina, and that is precisely their charm. West of the Tagliamento, between the Piave and the Friulian plain, these rugged limestone mountains rise in jagged ridges and pinnacles, with deep valleys and very few roads. They are part of the UNESCO Dolomites site and form the Parco Naturale delle Dolomiti Friulane, a wild area of forests, gorges and rock towers, including the extraordinary Campanile di Val Montanaia, a needle of rock standing alone in a high valley like a stone bell tower. Chamois, ibex, golden eagles and marmots live here, and the silence on the high trails is profound.
Read the complete Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave sits at 174 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine comes up about 395 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Marmolada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Marmolada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 456 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Marmolada. 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 Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 622 km.
Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles → The Dolomites is 106 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Dolomites → Marmolada is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Marmolada → Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine → Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 86 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → back through Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dolomiti Settentrionali Cadorine → back through Marmolada is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Marmolada → back through The Dolomites is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Dolomites → Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles is 107 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.