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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435 km from Selva to Selva, about 9 h 51 of riding. It goes by way of Marmolada, Sciliar-Catinaccio, Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti and back through Sciliar-Catinaccio. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 92 km this is Great Dolomites Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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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 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.
Marmolada comes up about 92 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sciliar-Catinaccio.
Watch the Rosengarten at sunset from the valley of Bolzano and you will understand the legend. As the sun goes down, the pale dolomite peaks glow pink, then red, then purple, a phenomenon the Ladin people call enrosadira. According to the old story, King Laurin of the dwarves had a magnificent rose garden here, and when he was captured by enemies who had spotted his roses, he cursed the garden so that no one would see it by day or by night. He forgot the twilight, and so, for a few minutes each evening, the roses bloom again on the rocks. Together with the Sciliar, or Schlern, the great flat-topped massif to the north, the Catinaccio forms one of the components of the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site, listed in 2009.
Read the complete Sciliar-Catinaccio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 144 km into the recorded legs you reach Sciliar-Catinaccio. Next is Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti.
The Val di San Lucano is a deep, shadowed gash in the southern Dolomites, and the point here lies near Rivamonte and Voltago, in the Agordino, the upper valley of the Cordevole river. The big, pale walls on either side belong to the Pale di San Martino group, one of the nine sets of mountains included in the Dolomites World Heritage listing of 2009, and their sheer rock faces rise more than a thousand metres above the narrow valley floor.
Read the complete Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti, about halfway. Next is back through Sciliar-Catinaccio.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sciliar-Catinaccio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sciliar-Catinaccio sits at 139 km, about halfway. 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.
back through Marmolada comes up about 342 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles closes the day.
Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles → Marmolada is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Marmolada → Sciliar-Catinaccio is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sciliar-Catinaccio → Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pale di San Martino San Lucano - Dolomiti → back through Sciliar-Catinaccio is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sciliar-Catinaccio → back through Marmolada is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Marmolada → Puez-Odle / Puez-Geisler / Pöz-Odles is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.