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 520 km round trip from Kolochava - roughly 11 h 30 in the saddle. The stops in between: Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil, Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless, Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan and back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 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 Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil.
In Transcarpathia, the westernmost corner of Ukraine, the Carpathians drop down to a plain that feels more Central European than Eastern. The region was part of Hungary for a thousand years, then Czechoslovakia, then briefly independent, then the Soviet Union and finally Ukraine, and the villages carry a mix of languages, churches and foods. Zacharovanyi Krai, the Enchanted Land, is the name of a nature park in the hills of this region, with beech forests, meadows, mineral springs and small rivers.
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Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil comes up about 89 km into the recorded legs. Next is Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless.
Matkiv is a small village in the upper valley of the Stryi river, in the Turka district of the Lviv region, high in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Its wooden church, the tserkva of the Synaxis of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built in the first half of the nineteenth century, and it is a fine example of the Boyko tradition, named after the highland people who have lived in these mountains for centuries. The church has three log frames topped by tiered pyramidal roofs, each level slightly smaller than the one below, and the whole building is covered in wooden shingles that have weathered to a silver grey. It is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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about 218 km into the recorded legs you reach Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless. Next is Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan.
Just below the pass that carries the road and railway from Uzhhorod into Galicia, the village of Uzhok keeps one of the finest wooden churches of the Carpathians. The tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael was built in the middle of the eighteenth century in the Boyko style, with three log chambers each topped by a tiered roof, rising in stages like a set of stacked hats, all covered in wooden shingles. It stands on a slope among old trees, with a separate bell tower nearby, and it is one of the sixteen wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine listed by UNESCO in 2013.
Read the complete Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan write-up.
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Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan, about halfway. Next is back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless.
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back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless sits at 207 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil.
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back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil comes up about 430 km into the recorded legs. Next is Synevyr - Kvasovets.
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Synevyr - Kvasovets closes the day.
Synevyr - Kvasovets → Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless → Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Uzhok-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Archan → back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless → back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → Synevyr - Kvasovets is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.