CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Kolochava it runs 638 km to Kolochava; allow about 13 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes Gorgany, Maramarosh and back through Gorgany. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 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.
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Gorgany comes up 71 km in. Next is Maramarosh.
On the map, the line between Romania and Ukraine runs along the Tisza river here, and on either side of it the Carpathians rise in forested ridges. Maramarosh is the old name for the whole region, Maramureș to Romanians, and it is also the name of a protected forest within the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve on the Ukrainian side, one component of the World Heritage inscription for ancient and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe. These are forests where beech trees have grown undisturbed since the last ice age, with giants several hundred years old and a richness of life that has vanished from most of Europe.
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142 km in you reach Maramarosh. Next is back through Gorgany.
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Read the complete Gorgany write-up.
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back through Gorgany, late in the day. Next is Synevyr - Kvasovets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Synevyr - Kvasovets write-up.
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Back at Synevyr - Kvasovets. That is the ride.
Synevyr - Kvasovets → Gorgany is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → Maramarosh is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Maramarosh → back through Gorgany is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Gorgany → Synevyr - Kvasovets is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.