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 Kolochava it runs 447 km to Kolochava; allow about 7 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes Synevyr - Darvaika, Gorgany and back through Synevyr - Darvaika. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Up in the Carpathians of Transcarpathia lies the largest lake in the Ukrainian mountains, and a legend that explains it. Synevyr, set in a bowl of spruce forest at just under a thousand metres, is said to have been born from the tears of a count's daughter, Syn, who fell in love with a herdsman, Vyr, and was parted from him. Her father killed the young man, and she wept so much that the tears made the lake, which is why its name is Syn-Vyr. Whatever the truth, the lake is beautiful, dark and still, with a small island and a wooden pavilion on its shore, and the National Park around it is among the finest in the Carpathians.
Read the complete Synevyr - Kvasovets write-up.
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Synevyr - Kvasovets is where the day begins. Next is Synevyr - Darvaika.
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.
Read the complete Synevyr - Darvaika write-up.
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Synevyr - Darvaika comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gorgany.
The Gorgany are the wildest part of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a range of sandstone peaks rising above dense forests in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. What makes them unusual are the gorgany themselves, the fields of loose stone blocks that cover the upper slopes and summits, formed by frost shattering the rock. Walking across them is slow and tiring, and the forests below, of spruce, beech and Swiss stone pine, are among the most pristine in Ukraine, with brown bears, wolves, lynx and red deer. The Gorgany nature reserve protects a part of this landscape.
Read the complete Gorgany write-up.
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about 224 km into the recorded legs you reach Gorgany. Next is back through Synevyr - Darvaika.
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Read the complete Synevyr - Darvaika write-up.
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back through Synevyr - Darvaika, late in the day. Next is Synevyr - Kvasovets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Synevyr - Kvasovets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Synevyr - Kvasovets. That is the ride.
Synevyr - Kvasovets → Synevyr - Darvaika is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Darvaika → Gorgany is 166 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → back through Synevyr - Darvaika is 166 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Darvaika → Synevyr - Kvasovets is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.