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 529 km round trip from Dovhe - roughly 13 h 59 in the saddle. It goes by way of Synevyr - Vilshany, Synevyr - Strymba, Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh and Synevyr - Darvaika. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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.
Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil write-up.
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Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is where the day begins. Next is Synevyr - Vilshany.
Lake Synevyr is the largest mountain lake in the Ukrainian Carpathians, a dark, deep pool surrounded by spruce forest at about a thousand metres, formed thousands of years ago when a landslide blocked a valley. It is called the sea eye, and on a calm day, it reflects the trees and the sky like a mirror. A sad legend tells of a count's daughter, Syn, who fell in love with a shepherd, Vyr; the count had the young man killed, and the girl wept so much that her tears formed the lake. The lake is the centrepiece of the Synevyr National Park, which protects a large area of old forests in Zakarpattia, and nearby there is a rehabilitation centre for brown bears rescued from captivity, where you can see them in large forest enclosures.
Read the complete Synevyr - Vilshany write-up.
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Synevyr - Vilshany comes up about 82 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.
Read the complete Synevyr - Strymba write-up.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Synevyr - Strymba. Next is Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh.
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, about halfway. Next is Synevyr - Darvaika.
Lake Synevyr is the largest lake in the Ukrainian Carpathians, a deep, dark mountain lake at about a thousand metres, ringed by spruce forest and fed by springs. It sits in the Synevyr National Nature Park, in Zakarpattia, and the Darvaika forest to which the label refers is a part of the park's old beech woods, that UNESCO lists among the old beech woods of the Carpathians. The lake owes its name to a legend: a count named Shenborn had a daughter, Synya, who fell in love with a shepherd called Vyr, and when the count killed him, her tears made the lake, while the island in the middle is the shepherd's grave.
Read the complete Synevyr - Darvaika write-up.
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Synevyr - Darvaika sits at 123 km, about halfway. Next is back through Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh.
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Read the complete Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh write-up.
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back through Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh comes up about 346 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Synevyr - Strymba.
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Read the complete Synevyr - Strymba write-up.
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about 428 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Synevyr - Strymba. Next is back through Synevyr - Vilshany.
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Read the complete Synevyr - Vilshany write-up.
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back through Synevyr - Vilshany, late in the day. Next is Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil.
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Read the complete Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil write-up.
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The route ends here after 529 km.
Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil → Synevyr - Vilshany is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Vilshany → Synevyr - Strymba is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Strymba → Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh → Synevyr - Darvaika is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synevyr - Darvaika → back through Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Uholka - Shyrikyi Luh → back through Synevyr - Strymba is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Strymba → back through Synevyr - Vilshany is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Synevyr - Vilshany → Zacharovanyi Krai - Velykyi Dil is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.