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 333 km round trip from Leskova Dolina - roughly 6 h 05 in the saddle. It goes by way of Church of St. Michael, Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier and back through Church of St. Michael. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Read the complete Snežnik-Ždrocle write-up.
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Snežnik-Ždrocle is where the day begins. Next is Church of St. Michael, 63 km on.
Five thousand years ago, someone in the marshes south of Ljubljana made a wheel, and it is still here to prove it. In 2002, archaeologists working in the peat at Stare gmajne found a wooden wheel with its axle, made of ash and oak, which turned out to be about five thousand one hundred years old, the oldest known wheel of its kind in the world. It is now in the City Museum in Ljubljana, but it was found in the Ljubljana Marshes, the Barje, a broad, flat, wet plain between the city and the hills, which was once a lake. In the Neolithic and Copper Age, people built villages on stilts above the water, and the wood, preserved in the waterlogged peat, has survived for millennia. The pile dwellings of the Barje were included in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, in 2011.
Read the complete Church of St. Michael write-up.
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Church of St. Michael comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
The water barriers of the Idrijca are among the strangest industrial monuments in Europe: massive stone and timber dams built across a narrow mountain river not to store water for drinking or power, but to float logs. Locals call them klavže, and the biggest have been nicknamed the Slovenian pyramids for their huge, carefully cut blocks. They lie in the deep, wooded gorge below the Vojsko plateau, a short ride from the town of Idrija.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
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about 170 km into the recorded legs you reach Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier. Next is back through Church of St. Michael, 63 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Church of St. Michael write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Church of St. Michael, late in the day. Next is Snežnik-Ždrocle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Snežnik-Ždrocle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Snežnik-Ždrocle. That is the ride.
Snežnik-Ždrocle → Church of St. Michael is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Church of St. Michael → Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → back through Church of St. Michael is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Church of St. Michael → Snežnik-Ždrocle is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.