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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590 km from Drahovo to Drahovo, about 10 h 10 of riding. On the way it passes 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.
The Uholka and Shyrokyi Luh massif, in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve of western Ukraine, is the largest tract of virgin beech forest in Europe. It lies in the upper valley of the Tisza, in Zakarpattia, among steep slopes between roughly four hundred and twelve hundred metres, and it forms a key part of the UNESCO listing for the primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe, inscribed in 2007. Here the trees have never been logged, so the forest has the structure that old Europe once had: giant trunks, fallen and rotting wood, moss, fungi, and gaps where a tree has died and light floods in.
Read the complete Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh write-up.
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Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh 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.
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Synevyr - Strymba comes up about 94 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 295 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.
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back through Synevyr - Strymba, late in the day. Next is Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh. That is the ride.
Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh → Synevyr - Strymba is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Strymba → Gorgany is 201 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → back through Synevyr - Strymba is 201 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Strymba → Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.