Ah, Spain, this time dry, sunny and hot! Si wanted to take us higher up to start some of the rides but snow was still an issue on the higher slopes. All rides seem to start with the inevitable climb but as ever in these parts the downhill more than makes up for some of …
Nidderdale, this ride has been featured a few times in the magazines and is one of the original MBR “killer loops”. It’s a classic and I would rate it against pretty much any ride you care to mention in the UK and further afield for that matter. We stayed in the bunkhouse overlooking the Scar …
is wet, just like back home, so much for a week in the sun, landing at Malaga after flying from Liverpool, the pilot must have taken a wrong turn, surely! Grey sky and rain, this is not what we had paid up for. Thankfully we were signed up for an uplift week with Freeridespain. Run …
It rains in Costa Rica. a lot. Combine that rainfall with mountains, which are in abundance and it can only mean one thing, rivers, and plenty of them. Forty of them are described in the guidebook, Chasing Jaguars, but there are plenty more, some have been run, some not. We took two weeks out to …
We scrapped down the run in to this first rapid, but when the river steepens and tightens up, that low flow makes for perfect conditions for this Italien like run. Coming round the corner we were greeted by this view, where to go? Initially I took us left, but Mike spied a route river right …
Have we mentioned we like hills and mountains, seems you can grow stuff on them as well as paddle and ride down them. We visited Cafe Cristina in the hills above Paraiso and took a tour to see how our favourite morning drink took shape. Organically grown at a height of 1300metres, coffee produced here …
Leave your camera with native Costa Rican and this is the sort of shot you can expect to find on your memory card when you return. Luckily Juan Carlos also took some pictures of us falling off the Catarata Poza Azul, the blue pool waterfall! The Poza Azul is a trib of the Lower Sarapiqui. …
It’s been a while since we’ve been up to Hamsterley and they have been busy with a bunch of steep trails to fly down. Give Craig a call on 0779 551 4251 and go see for yourself. Uplifts start about 11ish with 5 taking you to about 1.30, have a break for lunch, 5 more …
The Coruh River in Eastern Turkey is being dammed; this is the last year it will be running as one of the classic white water runs of the world. At least that is what some would have you believe. The reality is that although dams are being built at various points along it's course the …
Fionn woke, bleary eyed, yawn, brilliant its Saturday, a lie in, he stretched and rolled over. There was an almighty thump and suddenly Fionn was wide awake, what was going on, 7.00 OCLOCK, BUT ITS SATURDAY he protested, what was Orna doing getting him up so early on a Saturday morning, Bah! He spat out. …