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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Velykyi Bereznyi it runs 494 km to Velykyi Bereznyi; allow about 8 h 30 of riding. On the way it passes Rožok, Vihorlat, Udava and back through Vihorlat. It crosses Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Hidden in a fold of the Vihorlat hills near the Ukrainian border, the little village of Ruská Bystrá has a wooden church built in the early eighteenth century, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, with a tower and a roof of wooden shingles and an iconostasis of painted icons inside. It is one of the Greek Catholic churches included in the World Heritage listing of the Wooden Churches of the Slovak Part of the Carpathian Mountain Area, inscribed in 2008, along with Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches across the country.
Read the complete Ruská Bystrá write-up.
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Ruská Bystrá is where the day begins. Next is Rožok.
Rožok is a small patch of very old forest on the eastern edge of Slovakia, close to the borders with Poland and Ukraine, and it is one of the components of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a World Heritage Site that stretches across many countries. Here, on a steep slope above the Starina reservoir, beech trees have grown undisturbed for centuries, some of them huge, with smooth grey trunks and wide canopies, and fallen trees lie rotting on the forest floor, feeding fungi, insects and birds.
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Rožok comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vihorlat.
Vihorlat is a range of old volcanoes in the far east of Slovakia, close to the Ukrainian border, and its higher slopes are covered with some of the last primeval beech forests in Europe. The trees here have grown, died and rotted without human interference for a very long time, and the forest is part of the transnational UNESCO site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, first listed in 2007 with sites in Slovakia and Ukraine and later extended across much of the continent.
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about 144 km into the recorded legs you reach Vihorlat. Next is Udava.
Out where Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine meet, the eastern Carpathians fold into long, rounded ridges covered in beech forest so continuous that from a high point it looks like a green sea. Udava is one of the Slovak pieces of the UNESCO Primeval Beech Forests listing, protected within Poloniny National Park, the most easterly and least populated corner of the country. Here the forest has been left to its own rhythms for a very long time: giant trees, fallen trunks covered in fungi and moss, a dense understory of young growth wherever light breaks through. Wolves, lynx, brown bears and even European bison roam the area, and the dawn chorus in May is unforgettable.
Read the complete Udava write-up.
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Udava, about halfway. Next is back through Vihorlat.
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Read the complete Vihorlat write-up.
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back through Vihorlat sits at 328 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rožok.
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Read the complete Rožok write-up.
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back through Rožok comes up about 430 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ruská Bystrá.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ruská Bystrá write-up.
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Ruská Bystrá closes the day.
Ruská Bystrá → Rožok is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rožok → Vihorlat is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vihorlat → Udava is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Udava → back through Vihorlat is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vihorlat → back through Rožok is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rožok → Ruská Bystrá is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.