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 460 km round trip from Selva - roughly 8 h 31 in the saddle. On the way it passes Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave, Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va and back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 158 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 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 comes up about 158 km into the recorded legs. Next is Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va.
These are not soft, rolling wine hills. Between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, the foothills of the Pre-Alps rise in steep hogback ridges, sharp crests of rock running east to west, with vines clinging to slopes so steep that much of the work is still done by hand. Grass-covered terraces called ciglioni hold the soil in place, and the result is a patchwork of vines, woods and small villages that UNESCO listed in 2019.
Read the complete Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 230 km into the recorded legs you reach Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va. Next is back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave, 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.
Back at Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles. That is the ride.
Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles → Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 158 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Va → back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Dolomiti Friulane e d`Oltre Piave → Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles is 159 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.