CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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303 km from Idrija to Idrija, about 5 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Škocjan Caves, Snežnik-Ždrocle and back through Škocjan Caves. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The water barriers of the Idrijca are among the strangest industrial monuments in Europe: massive stone and timber dams built across a narrow mountain river not to store water for drinking or power, but to float logs. Locals call them klavže, and the biggest have been nicknamed the Slovenian pyramids for their huge, carefully cut blocks. They lie in the deep, wooded gorge below the Vojsko plateau, a short ride from the town of Idrija.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
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Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is where the day begins. Next is Škocjan Caves.
Underneath the sleepy stone villages of the Slovenian Karst, a river called the Reka plunges into the earth and carves one of the largest underground canyons known anywhere. The Škocjan Caves, a UNESCO site since 1986, are the reason the word karst became the scientific name for this kind of limestone landscape everywhere in the world. Inside, a narrow footbridge spans the Reka gorge far above the roaring water, the chamber walls disappear into darkness, and the scale is so huge that your mind struggles to accept it is all underground.
Read the complete Škocjan Caves write-up.
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Škocjan Caves comes up 50 km in. Next is Snežnik-Ždrocle.
Ždrocle is a fragment of primeval beech forest on the slopes of Snežnik, the big karst mountain in the far south of Slovenia, close to the Croatian border, and it is one of the components of the great European UNESCO listing of ancient and primeval beech forests. That listing stretches from the Carpathians to Spain, but here you are in its Dinaric heart, where beech, fir and maple grow on a chaotic surface of limestone sinkholes, sharp ridges and hollows full of moss. Snežnik itself rises to just under eighteen hundred metres and holds its snow late, which is how it got its name.
Read the complete Snežnik-Ždrocle write-up.
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100 km in you reach Snežnik-Ždrocle. Next is back through Škocjan Caves.
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Read the complete Škocjan Caves write-up.
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back through Škocjan Caves, late in the day. Next is Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier write-up.
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Back at Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier. That is the ride.
Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier → Škocjan Caves is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Škocjan Caves → Snežnik-Ždrocle is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Snežnik-Ždrocle → back through Škocjan Caves is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Škocjan Caves → Vojsko - Idrijca Water Barrier is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.