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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Yasinya it runs 714 km to Yasinya; allow about 12 h 19 of riding. The stops in between: Gorgany, Synevyr - Strymba, Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil and back through Synevyr - Strymba. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension write-up.
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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 about 81 km into the recorded legs. Next is Synevyr - Strymba.
In the Carpathian mountains of Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine, the forests around Synevyr include some of the last remaining primeval beech forests in Europe, part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Strymba is one of the protected forest areas, in the hills near the village of Kolochava, where beech trees grow old and die without human interference, creating a rich habitat for fungi, insects, birds and animals.
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about 206 km into the recorded legs you reach Synevyr - Strymba. Next is Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil.
In Transcarpathia, the westernmost corner of Ukraine, the Carpathians drop down to a plain that feels more Central European than Eastern. The region was part of Hungary for a thousand years, then Czechoslovakia, then briefly independent, then the Soviet Union and finally Ukraine, and the villages carry a mix of languages, churches and foods. Zacharovanyi Krai, the Enchanted Land, is the name of a nature park in the hills of this region, with beech forests, meadows, mineral springs and small rivers.
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Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil, about halfway. Next is back through Synevyr - Strymba.
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back through Synevyr - Strymba sits at 476 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gorgany.
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Read the complete Gorgany write-up.
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back through Gorgany comes up about 631 km into the recorded legs. Next is Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension write-up.
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Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension closes the day.
Yasynia-Tserkva of Our Lord’s Ascension → Gorgany is 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gorgany → Synevyr - Strymba is 125 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Strymba → Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is 150 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → back through Synevyr - Strymba is 150 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Strymba → back through Gorgany is 125 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 81 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.