CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Yasinya it runs 282 km to Yasinya; allow about 7 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: Gorgany, Svydovets, Kuziy - Trybushany and back through Svydovets. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
High in the Ukrainian Carpathians, in the valley of the Black Tisa, the village of Yasinia stretches along the river beneath steep spruce-clad slopes. On a rise near its centre stands a small wooden church, the Church of the Ascension, sometimes called the Strukivska church, built in the early nineteenth century by Hutsul craftsmen without nails. Its stepped roofs, covered in wooden shingles, and its small domes give it a cosy, fairytale shape, and it is part of the UNESCO listing of wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is where the day begins. 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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Gorgany comes up 38 km in. Next is Svydovets.
The Svydovets is a long, high ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians, rising above the upper Tisza valley near the town of Rakhiv in Zakarpattia. Its southern and northern slopes hold some of the wildest primeval beech forest left in Europe, protected as part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and included in the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Above the trees lie broad alpine meadows, the polonyna, where Hutsul shepherds traditionally drove their flocks each summer, with glacial lakes tucked below the ridge.
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76 km in you reach Svydovets. Next is Kuziy - Trybushany.
The river Tisza runs fast and green out of the Ukrainian Carpathians, and for many kilometres it forms the border between Romania and Ukraine. On the Ukrainian bank, the forests of Kuziy and Trybushany are among the primeval beech woods protected in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and listed by UNESCO as part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. From the Romanian side, around Valea Vișeului, you look across the river at steep, wooded slopes where the trees have grown and died without interference for centuries.
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Kuziy - Trybushany, about halfway. Next is back through Svydovets.
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back through Svydovets sits at 152 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gorgany.
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back through Gorgany comes up 190 km in. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension closes the day.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Gorgany is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → Svydovets is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Svydovets → Kuziy - Trybushany is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kuziy - Trybushany → back through Svydovets is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Svydovets → back through Gorgany is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gorgany → Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.