Big Mountain Bike Adventures

Join us on our favorite tropical mountain bike holiday. Arrive in sultry San Jose and be enamored by the culture and blown away by a week of shuttle assisted all-mountain enduro style riding. Experience superb technical singletrack, desecending from the highest peaks in the country, with the best local guides wrapped up daily with a chilled cerveza at the end of the day. Pura Vida translated simply means 'pure life'. Join us and see why.

6 REASONS WE LOVE THIS TRIP:
Spending time with and getting to know local guide Paulo Valle, an accomplished rider, consummate professional and all-around great person.
Walking out of your hotel on the first morning of the trip to a warm tropical breeze, knowing that friends back home are shoveling their driveways of snow.
Rolling into the beautiful town of Santa Maria at the end of the day, nestled in the mountains and far away from tourists.
Feeling your descending skills improve daily as you get out of your comfort zone on Costa Rica’s challenging trails.
Enjoying some deserved beach time on the country’s spectacular Pacific coastline after a week of rugged singletrack riding.
Bonding with riding friends as you share big rides and big experiences together.

Join us on this co-ed coached riding retreat with legendary rider and coach Yoann Barelli as we mountain bike Mexico's glorious Baja California. Days are kept simple so you can focus on riding, recharging and enjoying the sun. This holiday is based in the small fishing village of La Ventana (also kite-surfing mecca), located on the eastern shore of the Baja along the beautiful Sea of Cortez. Pedal from the door of our seaside resort each morning to access 133 kms of buffed and fun desert trails that are suitable for intermediate and above riders. Rides are typically three-four hours long (shorter & longer available) followed by lunch and an afternoon at your leisure and an optional evening pedal. The focus of this trip is to get your fitness tuned up, learn some new skills and have a ton of fun. There's lots to do when not on the bike; sipping drinks and relaxing in the shade, eating fish tacos and delicious cuisine, daily yoga at our private studio or just reading your book and napping in a hammock. According to singletracks.com La Ventana boasts six of the top ten trails in Mexico.

Highlights

• Settling into a relaxed pace where days are kept simple.
• Receiving riding tips from one of BC's top coaches, from cornering to climbing and much more.
• Having a riding goal to keep you going through the winter months and setting you up for the riding season ahead.
• Sitting around the campfire at night on the beach and gazing up at the night’s canopy of scattered-diamond stars.
• Devouring the freshest fish-tacos that you’ve ever eaten washed down with a margarita or cerveza.

Nepal is on most of our bucket lists and there's a reason why. It is home to eight of the world's ten highest mountains; the landscapes are diverse and the views staggering. It is the birthplace of Buddhism and boasts a rich cultural diversity and wonderful people. As a developing country Nepal can be a challenging place to travel in, we've worked diligently over the years to offer the very best Nepal mountain bike trip available. Our guides and support staff are the best; they are hand picked and professional. Our routes have been carefully chosen; we ride as much singletrack as possible and spend three full days on the Annapurna circuit. We avoid long slogs up dusty roads and instead shuttle you so that you can save your energy for the fun stuff. From the moment that you touch down in Kathmandu you'll be transported on an unforgettable mountain bike adventure, a true trip of a lifetime.

Mountain biking in Peru has the ingredients for a trip of a lifetime; amazing riding, fascinating culture, spectacular historical sights, excellent guides, great cuisine & accommodation. We start in Cusco, the former capital of the Inca Empire with its Spanish colonial architecture and impressive main square, the Plaza de Armas. Then, we transition to the El Valle Sagrado (The Sacred Valley) for six days of Inca-built singletrack through remote traditional weaving villages, soaring mountains and some of the best riding in the world that reach Inca ruins that see few visitors, like the Huchuy Qosqo temple or the Moray archaeological site. Shuttle-assisted rides are mostly long descents peppered with challenging climbs at altitude, some technical sections and lots of fast sections; the riding in Peru is off the charts. We’ve included a once and a lifetime visit to Machu Picchu that’s accessed by a scenic train and privately guided tour of the site. What more could you ask for in a mountain bike holiday?

Highlights

• Having lunch mid-ride at a remote Inca ruin, high in the Andes, with no one around.
• Realizing every ride in Peru could make it into your top-10 best rides of all time.
• Watching the world go by in the Plaza de Armas square in Cusco, designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
• Exploring Machu Picchu feeling like you’ve gazed upon a true wonder of the world.
• Sipping a fresh pisco sour with friends after an amazing day of mountain biking.

Join us on a private motor yacht for a week of island bliss as we mountain bike around Croatia's Southern Dalmatia islands, one of Europe's most beautiful destinations. Sip a beer post ride at a rustic cafe, stroll narrow streets of historic harbor towns, a private dinner at a small restaurant or enjoy meals on the boat prepared by our onboard chef. Join our local Croatian guides on this unforgettable adventure as they show you the trails that weave and connect the villages on each island - experience the best single track found on each island. Learn about the deep history of the region with our knowledgeable local guides, anchor in a quiet cove for a swim off the deck, then sail off to the next island to do it all over again.

Our entirely oak ship stands at 101-feet long. All 12 spacious cabins (11 above deck over 2 floors, 1 below deck) feature air conditioning, private bathrooms with shower and hair dryer. Each day will feature two guided ride distances. Riders can expect lots of singletrack, some doubletrack and some quiet ashphalt climbs. Also, high-performance e-bike rentals available.

New co-ed trip launched! And, on our Women's departure enjoy pre-trip training assistance & on-trip coaching by the renowned Sweet Skills coaching program.

This trip has become a serious classic and a must-do for passionate riders longing for the ultimate Alps trip. If you dream of getting off a lift high in the Alps, climbing for an hour to a high pass with spectacular views, having a quick cappuccino, then rolling downhill for, oh, an hour or more on fantastic singletrack, then this is for you. We'll gaze out at Mont Blanc from a little stone hut above Verbier, devour pasta in Italy and ride in the shadow of the Matterhorn in Zermatt. Cloudraker is a serious all-mountain buffet.

"The most beautiful mountains on the planet" as described by famous climber; Reinhold Messner of the Dolomites. When you lay eyes on them you'll agree, their rocky limestone spires pierce the skies while the flowered grassy valleys are dotted with picture perfect mountain towns. For history enthusiasts, this trip is a ride back in time as we literally pedal down trenches and past sights from World War I. We'll traverse some of the highest bikeable passes in the Dolomites via Unesco World Heritage designated Alta Badia, Sella, Val di Fassa, Alleghe, San Martino di Castrozza and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Add the stunningly perched mountain rifugios that we'll call home for the night and delicious Italian cuisine and cappuccino stops and you've got one hell of a great mountain bike trip. If that's not enough, the stats: approxmate total descent of 57,500 feet (17,500 meters), approxmate total ascent of 10,000 ft (3050 meters), 3 shuttles, 20+ lifts. Dolomighty is the best of the best in the Italian Dolomites.

Experience the remote Icelandic landscapes by mountain bike on this epic point-to-point hut adventure (the only one available in Iceland). Follow our local guides as they show off their best singletrack in an intoxicating, vibrant landscape with geysers, bubbling mud, multicolored rhyolite mountains, expansive lava fields, natural hot springs and soaring glaciated mountains. You'll bathe in natural turquoise hot springs, spend nights in remote lodges in unreal locations and feast on delicious Icelandic cuisine. The raw natural energy on this trip will inspire you, and the party in Reykjavik at the end of this adventure will surely make you dance.

Journey far above the Arctic Circle to Norway's absolutely stunning Lofoten archipelago, a place of majestic mountains, deep fjords, squawking seabirds, salty air and a long history of cod fishing. We'll pedal (and hike!) our bikes up mountains with stunning views in all directions and descend amazing singletrack to the seashore. This is an adventure for riders who can earn their descent and have the skill to negotiate natural technical terrain at times. Its trails are remote and wild, having seen few mountain bikers, ever. We'll spend nights in small fishing communities off the beaten track while enjoying excellent cuisine and staying in unique 'rorbuer' houses, traditional fisherman's cabins that have been renovated. There's an opportunity to visit the fascinating Lofotr Viking museum and archeological site. Join us on this new riding adventure to a special wilderness outpost.

We're thrilled about this new adventure in one of Europe's most developed E-MTB regions where having a regular pedal bike is almost an oddity. This traverse showcases what is possible on these new machines as we cross the heart of the spectacular Dolomites over five big and amazing days of riding. Two nights will be spent in rifugios where you'll carry your toothbrush and evening clothes on your back (the huts are well-equipped) and on five nights your luggage will be waiting for you at the hotel. Riders will carry an extra battery on most days so there's no chance of running out of juice. We'll use some lifts and climb some singletrack when possible, some dirt roads and even some asphalt - we always aim for the best singletrack descents. This is the ultimate Dolomites E-MTB adventure!

Ride stats: 5 riding days, 200 km distance, 5850 m up (19,192 ft), 10,770 m down (35,334 ft).