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 419 km round trip from Rzepedź - roughly 7 h 34 in the saddle. It goes by way of Stuzhytsia - Uzhok, Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t and back through Stuzhytsia - Uzhok. It crosses from Poland into Ukraine - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 73 km this is Bieszczady Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The wooden church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Turzańsk stands on a gentle slope in the foothills of the Bieszczady mountains, in the far southeast of Poland, near the borders with Slovakia and Ukraine, with its onion domes rising above the trees. It was built in the early nineteenth century by the Lemko or Boyko communities, the Ruthenian highlanders who once lived in these mountains, and it is one of the wooden tserkvas of the Polish and Ukrainian Carpathian region listed by UNESCO in 2013. Inside, an iconostasis of painted icons separates the nave from the sanctuary, and the church is still used for Orthodox services.
Read the complete Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch is where the day begins. Next is Stuzhytsia - Uzhok.
Where the Bieszczady mountains of Poland meet Slovakia and Ukraine, there is a stretch of forest that has hardly been touched. The Stuzhytsia-Uzhok area, on the Ukrainian side of the watershed near the Uzhok pass, is one component of the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, a World Heritage group that spans several countries and continues into the Polish Bieszczady and the Slovak Poloniny. The trees here are mostly beech, with fir and sycamore, and in the oldest stands, some of the trunks are huge, with fallen logs lying where they dropped and rotting into the soil, a kind of forest that has almost vanished from Europe. The wildlife is what you might expect from such a place: brown bears, wolves, lynx, and the European bison, which was reintroduced to the Bieszczady in the 1960s.
Read the complete Stuzhytsia - Uzhok write-up.
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Stuzhytsia - Uzhok comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t.
Bruno Schulz was born in Drohobych in 1892, spent most of his life here and was shot in its streets by a German officer in 1942. The writer and painter, whose strange, dreamlike stories turned this small Galician town into a place of myth, drew on the old market square, the narrow lanes and the attic rooms of a Jewish merchant family, and the town today is part of his legacy. Drohobych, with a population of nearly eighty thousand, grew rich on salt and oil, and the oil wells of nearby Boryslav gave the region the nickname of Galicia's Texas in the late nineteenth century. Ivan Franko, the great Ukrainian writer, went to school here.
Read the complete Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 210 km into the recorded legs you reach Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t. Next is back through Stuzhytsia - Uzhok.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stuzhytsia - Uzhok write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Stuzhytsia - Uzhok, late in the day. Next is Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch. That is the ride.
Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch → Stuzhytsia - Uzhok is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Stuzhytsia - Uzhok → Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t → back through Stuzhytsia - Uzhok is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Stuzhytsia - Uzhok → Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Arch is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.