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 639 km round trip from Snina - roughly 11 h 53 in the saddle. The stops in between: Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa, Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t and back through Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa. It crosses Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 199 km this is Bieszczady Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Vihorlat is a range of old volcanoes in the far east of Slovakia, close to the Ukrainian border, and its higher slopes are covered with some of the last primeval beech forests in Europe. The trees here have grown, died and rotted without human interference for a very long time, and the forest is part of the transnational UNESCO site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, first listed in 2007 with sites in Slovakia and Ukraine and later extended across much of the continent.
Read the complete Vihorlat write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Vihorlat is where the day begins. Next is Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa.
In the Bieszczady mountains of south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine, a wooden church stands on a gentle rise above the San valley at Smolnik. It is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel and built in the style of the Boyko people, with three log sections stepping up from east to west under shingled roofs. Since 2013 it has been part of the World Heritage Site of Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine.
Read the complete Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa write-up.
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Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa comes up about 199 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 320 km into the recorded legs you reach Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t. Next is back through Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa, late in the day. Next is Vihorlat.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vihorlat write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Vihorlat. That is the ride.
Vihorlat → Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa is 199 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa → Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Drohobych-Tserkva of Saint George\t → back through Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archa → Vihorlat is 199 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.