CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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596 km from Kolochava to Kolochava, about 15 h 02 of riding. It goes by way of Gorgany, Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension, Maramarosh and back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 44 km in. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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88 km in you reach Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension. 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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Maramarosh, about halfway. Next is back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
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back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension sits at 176 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gorgany.
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back through Gorgany comes up 220 km in. Next is Synevyr - Strymba.
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Synevyr - Strymba closes the day.
Synevyr - Strymba → Gorgany is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Maramarosh is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maramarosh → back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → back through Gorgany is 33 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.