CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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832 km from Kolochava to Kolochava, about 20 h 38 of riding. It goes by way of Gorgany, Chornohora, Wooden Churches of Maramureş and Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Ukraine into Romania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the Carpathian mountains of Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine, the forests around Synevyr include some of the last remaining primeval beech forests in Europe, part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Strymba is one of the protected forest areas, in the hills near the village of Kolochava, where beech trees grow old and die without human interference, creating a rich habitat for fungi, insects, birds and animals.
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Synevyr - Strymba 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 51 km in. Next is Chornohora.
Chornohora, the Black Mountain, is the highest range of the Ukrainian Carpathians, a long ridge of rounded summits above the forests on the border between the Zakarpattia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Its highest peak, Hoverla, rises to 2,061 metres, the highest point in Ukraine, and on summer weekends it can be busy with hikers. Along the ridge to the southeast stands Pip Ivan, crowned by the ruins of an astronomical and meteorological observatory built by Poland in the 1930s, when this was the border with Czechoslovakia. Locals call it the White Elephant, and seeing it loom out of the mist is unforgettable.
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101 km in you reach Chornohora. Next is Wooden Churches of Maramureş.
Maramureș is a region in the far north of Romania, along the Ukrainian border, where traditions have survived more strongly than almost anywhere else in Europe. Its villages are known for their carved wooden gates, their haystacks and their wooden churches, eight of which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bârsana, in the valley of the Iza river, has one of them, a church built in the eighteenth century, with a tall slender spire and a steep shingled roof.
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Wooden Churches of Maramureş, about halfway. Next is Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii.
The Țibleș mountains rise like a dark wall between the Lăpuș country and the valleys of Maramureș, a volcanic range of dense spruce and beech forest topping out at nearly two thousand metres. On their slopes, near the source known as Izvorul Șurii above the village of Groșii Țibleșului, the forest feels almost untouched: springs bubbling out of mossy banks, fallen trunks covered in fungi, and a silence broken only by woodpeckers and the wind. This is bear country, and wolves and lynx roam these woods too. The area lies on the edge of the Maramureș region, famous for its wooden churches, carved gates and deeply traditional village life.
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Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii sits at 203 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wooden Churches of Maramureş.
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back through Wooden Churches of Maramureş comes up 253 km in. Next is back through Chornohora.
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304 km in you reach back through Chornohora. Next is back through Gorgany.
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back through Gorgany, late in the day. Next is Synevyr - Strymba.
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The route ends here after 832 km.
Synevyr - Strymba → Gorgany is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → Chornohora is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chornohora → Wooden Churches of Maramureş is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wooden Churches of Maramureş → Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Groșii Țibleșului - Izvorul Șurii → back through Wooden Churches of Maramureş is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wooden Churches of Maramureş → back through Chornohora is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Chornohora → back through Gorgany is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gorgany → Synevyr - Strymba is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.