CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 464 km round trip from Kolochava - roughly 11 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh, Svydovets, Kuziy - Trybushany and back through Svydovets. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Lake Synevyr is the largest lake in the Ukrainian Carpathians, a deep, dark mountain lake at about a thousand metres, ringed by spruce forest and fed by springs. It sits in the Synevyr National Nature Park, in Zakarpattia, and the Darvaika forest to which the label refers is a part of the park's old beech woods, that UNESCO lists among the old beech woods of the Carpathians. The lake owes its name to a legend: a count named Shenborn had a daughter, Synya, who fell in love with a shepherd called Vyr, and when the count killed him, her tears made the lake, while the island in the middle is the shepherd's grave.
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Synevyr - Darvaika is where the day begins. Next is Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh.
The Uholka and Shyrokyi Luh massif, in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve of western Ukraine, is the largest tract of virgin beech forest in Europe. It lies in the upper valley of the Tisza, in Zakarpattia, among steep slopes between roughly four hundred and twelve hundred metres, and it forms a key part of the UNESCO listing for the primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe, inscribed in 2007. Here the trees have never been logged, so the forest has the structure that old Europe once had: giant trunks, fallen and rotting wood, moss, fungi, and gaps where a tree has died and light floods in.
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Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh comes up 40 km in. Next is Svydovets.
The Svydovets is a long, high ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians, rising above the upper Tisza valley near the town of Rakhiv in Zakarpattia. Its southern and northern slopes hold some of the wildest primeval beech forest left in Europe, protected as part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Above the trees lie broad alpine meadows, the polonyna, where Hutsul shepherds traditionally drove their flocks each summer, with glacial lakes tucked below the ridge.
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80 km in you reach Svydovets. Next is Kuziy - Trybushany.
The river Tisza runs fast and green out of the Ukrainian Carpathians, and for many kilometres it forms the border between Romania and Ukraine. On the Ukrainian bank, the forests of Kuziy and Trybushany are among the primeval beech woods protected in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and listed by UNESCO as part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. From the Romanian side, around Valea Vișeului, you look across the river at steep, wooded slopes where the trees have grown and died without interference for centuries.
Read the complete Kuziy - Trybushany write-up.
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Kuziy - Trybushany, about halfway. Next is back through Svydovets.
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Read the complete Svydovets write-up.
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back through Svydovets sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh.
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Read the complete Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh write-up.
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back through Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh comes up 199 km in. Next is Synevyr - Darvaika.
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Read the complete Synevyr - Darvaika write-up.
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Synevyr - Darvaika closes the day.
Synevyr - Darvaika → Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh → Svydovets is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Svydovets → Kuziy - Trybushany is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kuziy - Trybushany → back through Svydovets is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Svydovets → back through Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh → Synevyr - Darvaika is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.