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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88 km from Ares del Maestre to Ares del Maestre, about 1 h 57 of riding. On the way it passes Coveta de montegordo, Abric del mas dels Ous and back through Coveta de montegordo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Truffles grow under the oaks of the Maestrat. The black truffle, Tuber melanosporum, favours the cool, limestone soils of the high plateaus of Castellón, Teruel and Tarragona, and in recent decades farmers have planted oak plantations to cultivate it, hoping for a crop that sells for a high price in winter. Dogs are trained to find it, . The Racó Molero, a ravine corner four or five kilometres from Benassal, is in the oak country, and the woods around it hold a mixture of holm oak, pine and juniper.
Read the complete Racó molero write-up.
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Racó molero is where the day begins. Next is Coveta de montegordo.
Up in the dry limestone uplands of inland Castellón, the Valltorta and Gasulla ravines hold one of the densest concentrations of Levantine rock art in Spain, and the Coveta de Montegordo is one of its many small shelters. Painted under rock overhangs some seven or eight thousand years ago, perhaps more, the figures here are tiny, often no taller than a finger, yet astonishingly alive: archers running with bows drawn, goats and deer leaping, hunters following wounded animals. The whole region is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin listing inscribed by UNESCO in 1998, and the famous Cova dels Cavalls in the Valltorta shows a deer hunt with a line of archers waiting in ambush.
Read the complete Coveta de montegordo write-up.
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Coveta de montegordo comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abric del mas dels Ous.
Xert is the kind of village you pass through on the way to somewhere else and then wonder why you did not stop. It lies in the Baix Maestrat in northern Castellón, below a ridge of bare limestone, with the old village climbing the slope and a newer part down by the road. The shelter called the Abric del Mas dels Ous, the shelter of the farmhouse of the eggs, is out in the dry hills nearby, between Xert, Canet lo Roig and Rosell.
Read the complete Abric del mas dels Ous write-up.
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about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Abric del mas dels Ous. Next is back through Coveta de montegordo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Coveta de montegordo write-up.
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back through Coveta de montegordo, late in the day. Next is Racó molero.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Racó molero write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Racó molero. That is the ride.
Racó molero → Coveta de montegordo is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Coveta de montegordo → Abric del mas dels Ous is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abric del mas dels Ous → back through Coveta de montegordo is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Coveta de montegordo → Racó molero is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.