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 271 km round trip from Nimigea de Sus - roughly 6 h 50 in the saddle. The stops in between: Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2, Guga - Vârful Țâglii, Rogna - La Bontauă and back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Salva lies where the Someșul Mare valley opens into a broad bowl in Bistrița-Năsăud county, with the Rodna mountains standing to the northeast and a ring of low wooded hills closer in. The town is a railway junction, a lorry stop on the road through the valley, and the kind of place that looks ordinary until you ask about its past.
Read the complete Salva - Modruț write-up.
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Salva - Modruț is where the day begins. Next is Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2.
Transylvania's northern hills look like a landscape painted by someone who liked orchards and haystacks. Purcărete lies in the folds of the country between the Someș valleys and the Bistrița river, a region that was colonised in the Middle Ages by German-speaking Saxons, who built fortified churches and walled towns, and by Hungarians and Romanians who farmed the slopes. The Saxon town of Bistrița, not far away, still has a tall Lutheran church with a spire that can be seen from miles, and a handsome old centre of arcaded houses.
Read the complete Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 write-up.
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Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
Rugășești, Vad and Poiana Blenchii are the kind of villages most people drive past on the way to somewhere else, and that is precisely the charm of the hills that rise between them. The point marked as Guga, Vârful Țâglii, lies on this rolling country north of the Someș, roughly a dozen kilometres from Dej, in the band of land where Rome drew the northern edge of Dacia. A summit called Țâglii is the sort of place where a watchtower would have looked out across the Someș corridor toward the free tribes beyond, and the archaeological lists record a frontier site here.
Read the complete Guga - Vârful Țâglii write-up.
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about 104 km into the recorded legs you reach Guga - Vârful Țâglii. Next is Rogna - La Bontauă.
Rogna is a scatter of farms in the hills of northern Sălaj, close to the Someș valley and the border with Maramureș, and La Bontauă is the name the locals give to a piece of high ground where a Roman frontier site has been recorded. The northern edge of Roman Dacia ran through these hills, and the Romans placed watchtowers and small forts on high points to keep an eye on the river valleys and the free Dacians to the north. Today there is little to see apart from the shape of the land, but the view over the rolling hills makes it easy to imagine a sentry looking out across the valley.
Read the complete Rogna - La Bontauă write-up.
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Rogna - La Bontauă, about halfway. Next is back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii.
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Read the complete Guga - Vârful Țâglii write-up.
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back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2.
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Read the complete Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 write-up.
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back through Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 comes up about 208 km into the recorded legs. Next is Salva - Modruț.
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Read the complete Salva - Modruț write-up.
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Salva - Modruț closes the day.
Salva - Modruț → Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 → Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guga - Vârful Țâglii → Rogna - La Bontauă is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rogna - La Bontauă → back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guga - Vârful Țâglii → back through Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Purcărete - Fața Carpenului 1 & 2 → Salva - Modruț is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.