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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From Leskova Dolina it runs 541 km to Leskova Dolina; allow about 10 h 38 of riding. It goes by way of Krokar, Količa na Igu, Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa and Roman Walls in Mirje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Ždrocle is a fragment of primeval beech forest on the slopes of Snežnik, the big karst mountain in the far south of Slovenia, close to the Croatian border, and it is one of the components of the great European UNESCO listing of ancient and primeval beech forests. That listing stretches from the Carpathians to Spain, but here you are in its Dinaric heart, where beech, fir and maple grow on a chaotic surface of limestone sinkholes, sharp ridges and hollows full of moss. Snežnik itself rises to just under eighteen hundred metres and holds its snow late, which is how it got its name.
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Snežnik-Ždrocle is where the day begins. Next is Krokar.
Krokar is one of the last true virgin forests in Europe, a reserve of beech and fir on a steep slope above the Kolpa river in southern Slovenia, where humans have never logged or managed the woods. Trees grow, fall and rot as they have done since the end of the Ice Age, and the result is an extraordinary tangle of giant trunks, dead wood and fresh saplings, home to fungi, beetles and birds that need old, undisturbed forest. Since 2017, Krokar has been part of the UNESCO site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. The reserve itself is strictly protected and not open to visitors; you can walk along its edge, but the heart of it is left alone, which is precisely the point.
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Krokar comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Količa na Igu.
The Ljubljana Marsh is a wide, flat plain of peat and wet meadow south of the city, drained since the eighteenth century by canals, and it hides one of the most interesting stories in European prehistory. Some five thousand years ago people built houses on stilts here, at the edge of lakes that have since vanished, and the remains of their villages lie preserved in the peat. The pile dwellings near Ig are part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, shared with five other countries.
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about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach Količa na Igu. Next is Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa.
Idrija sits at the bottom of a narrow, steep-sided valley in western Slovenia, and for about five hundred years the town made a living from the red mineral cinnabar, the ore of mercury. The mine at Idrija was one of the largest mercury mines in Europe, second only to Almadén in Spain, and the two sites share UNESCO World Heritage status. The Kamšt is the best monument to that history: a huge wooden waterwheel, more than thirteen metres across, built in the late eighteenth century to drive pumps that kept the mine from flooding.
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Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa, about halfway. Next is Roman Walls in Mirje.
In the middle of Ljubljana, on Mirje street, a long stretch of reconstructed wall recalls the Roman town of Emona. The Romans founded Emona in the early first century AD, on a grid of streets beside the Ljubljanica river, as a frontier outpost and trading town on the road between Italy and the Danube. It had walls, gates, forums, baths and a population of several thousand. Later, the town was sacked by Huns and other invaders, and its stones were reused for centuries, so that very little survived above ground.
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Roman Walls in Mirje sits at 205 km, about halfway. Next is back through Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa.
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back through Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa comes up about 330 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Količa na Igu.
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about 397 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Količa na Igu. Next is back through Krokar.
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back through Krokar, late in the day. Next is Snežnik-Ždrocle.
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The route ends here after 541 km.
Snežnik-Ždrocle → Krokar is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Krokar → Količa na Igu is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Količa na Igu → Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa → Roman Walls in Mirje is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roman Walls in Mirje → back through Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Idrija - Kamšt water pump with the Rake wa → back through Količa na Igu is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Količa na Igu → back through Krokar is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Krokar → Snežnik-Ždrocle is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.