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 463 km to Kolochava; allow about 7 h 59 of riding. It goes by way of Synevyr - Strymba, Gorgany and back through Synevyr - Strymba. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Lake Synevyr is the largest mountain lake in the Ukrainian Carpathians, a dark, deep pool surrounded by spruce forest at about a thousand metres, formed thousands of years ago when a landslide blocked a valley. It is called the sea eye, and on a calm day, it reflects the trees and the sky like a mirror. A sad legend tells of a count's daughter, Syn, who fell in love with a shepherd, Vyr; the count had the young man killed, and the girl wept so much that her tears formed the lake. The lake is the centrepiece of the Synevyr National Park, which protects a large area of old forests in Zakarpattia, and nearby there is a rehabilitation centre for brown bears rescued from captivity, where you can see them in large forest enclosures.
Read the complete Synevyr - Vilshany write-up.
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Synevyr - Vilshany is where the day begins. Next is Synevyr - Strymba.
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.
Read the complete Synevyr - Strymba write-up.
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Synevyr - Strymba comes up about 65 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 232 km into the recorded legs you reach Gorgany. Next is back through Synevyr - Strymba.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Synevyr - Strymba write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Synevyr - Strymba, late in the day. Next is Synevyr - Vilshany.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Synevyr - Vilshany write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Synevyr - Vilshany. That is the ride.
Synevyr - Vilshany → Synevyr - Strymba is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Strymba → Gorgany is 166 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → back through Synevyr - Strymba is 166 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Strymba → Synevyr - Vilshany is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.