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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412 km from Nimigea de Sus to Nimigea de Sus, about 8 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2, Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1, Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor and Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 2. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Zagra is the last farming village before the land begins to climb in earnest toward the Rodna mountains, the highest range in the Eastern Carpathians north of the Prislop pass. Pietrosul Rodnei, at about 2,300 metres, is the summit, and the whole massif is protected as a national park and biosphere reserve, with glacial lakes, rocky ridges and alpine meadows that stay snowy into June. From the Dealul Lupului, the Wolf Hill, you look across a patchwork of hayfields toward those peaks, which look closer than they are.
Read the complete Zagra - Dealul Lupului write-up.
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Zagra - Dealul Lupului is where the day begins. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2.
Above the valley of the Someș Mare in Bistrița-Năsăud county, the hill called Dealul Podului carries the faint remains of a Roman watch post, one of a string of small installations that kept an eye on the northern edge of the province of Dacia. Like many points on this frontier, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2024, it is less a monument than a viewpoint with a story, a place where soldiers once scanned the horizon for movement in the free lands to the north. Today the horizon holds forested ridges, orchards and villages strung along the river.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1.
The Someș is the river of northern Transylvania, gathering its waters in the mountains and winding west through a broad, green valley towards Hungary. Around Rus and Ileanda, in the northeast of Sălaj county, the valley narrows between wooded hills, and the villages cling to the slopes above the river. Dăbâceni and the ridge called Coama Pietrar lie in this landscape, one of many recorded archaeological sites in the area, and like most of them it is more about the setting than about visible remains.
Read the complete Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 write-up.
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about 100 km into the recorded legs you reach Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1. Next is Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor.
Dej is the town where the Someșul Mare and Someșul Mic meet, a river city with a long history of salt and trade, and the hills above it are the setting for Dealul Râpelor, the Hill of Gullies. The name describes a landscape of badlands, where soft clays and marls have been cut into steep ravines by rain, leaving bare slopes, crumbling edges and odd shapes. On the heights above, the Roman army set up a watchtower as part of the northern frontier of Dacia, the Limes Porolissensis, which is now part of the World Heritage listing of the Dacian frontier.
Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor write-up.
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Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor, about halfway. Next is Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 2.
Coama Pietrar means stone crest, and the name is accurate in a modest way: a stony ridge among pastures and woodland in the hills of northern Transylvania. The site, listed as Dabaceni Coama Pietrar 2, is one of the numbered installations of the Roman frontier of Dacia Porolissensis, and the 2 suggests there is a neighbour.
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Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 2 sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor comes up about 258 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1.
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Read the complete Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 write-up.
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about 312 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1. Next is back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2.
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Read the complete Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 write-up.
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back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2, late in the day. Next is Zagra - Dealul Lupului.
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Read the complete Zagra - Dealul Lupului write-up.
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The route ends here after 412 km.
Zagra - Dealul Lupului → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 → Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 → Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor → Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 2 is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 2 → back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Dealul Râpelor → back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dăbâceni - Coama Pietrar 1 → back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dumbrăveni - Dealul Podului 2 → Zagra - Dealul Lupului is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.