CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Drahovo it runs 760 km to Drahovo; allow about 19 h 18 of riding. It goes by way of Synevyr - Darvaika, Gorgany, Maramarosh and back through Gorgany. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 - Darvaika.
Lake Synevyr is the largest lake in the Ukrainian Carpathians, a deep, dark mountain lake at about a thousand metres, ringed by spruce forest and fed by springs. It sits in the Synevyr National Nature Park, in Zakarpattia, and the Darvaika forest to which the label refers is a part of the park's old beech woods, that UNESCO lists among the old beech woods of the Carpathians. The lake owes its name to a legend: a count named Shenborn had a daughter, Synya, who fell in love with a shepherd called Vyr, and when the count killed him, her tears made the lake, while the island in the middle is the shepherd's grave.
Read the complete Synevyr - Darvaika write-up.
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Synevyr - Darvaika comes up 54 km in. 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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108 km in you reach Gorgany. 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.
Read the complete Maramarosh write-up.
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Maramarosh, about halfway. Next is back through Gorgany.
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Read the complete Gorgany write-up.
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back through Gorgany sits at 216 km, about halfway. Next is back through Synevyr - Darvaika.
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Read the complete Synevyr - Darvaika write-up.
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back through Synevyr - Darvaika comes up 270 km in. Next is Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh.
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Read the complete Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh write-up.
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Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh closes the day.
Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh → Synevyr - Darvaika is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Darvaika → Gorgany is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → Maramarosh is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Maramarosh → back through Gorgany is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Gorgany → back through Synevyr - Darvaika is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Darvaika → Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.