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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362 km from Drahovo to Drahovo, about 8 h 22 of riding. The stops in between: Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka, Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless and back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 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 Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka.
Transcarpathia is the tucked-away corner of Ukraine, on the far side of the mountains from the rest of the country, and it feels like it. The region, known in Ukrainian as Zakarpattia, was part of Hungary for a thousand years, and later of Czechoslovakia, before the Soviet Union took it in 1945, so the villages mix Ukrainian, Hungarian, Romanian and Rusyn traditions. The Zacharovanyi Krai, the Enchanted Land, is a nature park in the hills near the town of Irshava, a country of beech and oak forest, orchards, and folds of low mountains on the edge of the Carpathian foothills.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka write-up.
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Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka comes up about 111 km into the recorded legs. Next is Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless.
Matkiv is a small village in the upper valley of the Stryi river, in the Turka district of the Lviv region, high in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Its wooden church, the tserkva of the Synaxis of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built in the first half of the nineteenth century, and it is a fine example of the Boyko tradition, named after the highland people who have lived in these mountains for centuries. The church has three log frames topped by tiered pyramidal roofs, each level slightly smaller than the one below, and the whole building is covered in wooden shingles that have weathered to a silver grey. It is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
Read the complete Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless write-up.
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about 181 km into the recorded legs you reach Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless. Next is back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka, 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 → Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka → Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Matkiv-Tserkva of the Synaxis of the Bless → back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Zacharovanyi Krai - Irshavka → Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.