Monthly Archives: January 2012

Basque MTB: Mountain Biking into the 2012 Spanish Holiday Season

At BasqueMTB we are gearing up (bad pun, sorry!) for the 2012 mountain bike holiday season. After a very successful 2011 we are already taking holiday bookings for this season and are encouraging anyone who wants to come to this part of Spain for a mountain bike holiday with BasqueMTB to book soon to avoid disappointment.

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Mountain biking near San Sebastian Mountain biking on the Basque coast
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Mountain Biking near Bilbao Mountain biking in the Spanish Pyrenees

Many people ask me what we do when during the winter when we don’t offer mountain bike holidays. Well, the answer is that we prepare for the next season. A large part of that is exploring to find new mountain bike trails. We offer day trips in Navarra and longer mountain bike tours in the Spanish Pyrenees as well and all these trails need to be researched. In addition, for 2012, we will offer a Basque Coast mountain bike tour, riding from San Sebastian to Bilbao. This trip doesn’t follow the Camino del Norte, (an alternative to the Camino de Santiago), instead following less used trails, so again it takes a lot of work to map out all these trails and find the most fun route.

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Mountain biking in the Spanish Pyrenees
Mountain biking in the Spanish Pyrenees
Mountain Bike Holiday Spain Mountain Bike Holiday Spain
Mountain Biking near San Sebastian
Mountain biking in Basque Mountains

The other big job is to maintain, or improve, fitness. In the holiday season we will be guiding 5, 6 or sometimes 7 days a week. If the body is unprepared then that is almost impossible. Winter is the perfect time to get some big mountain bike miles in so that when the holiday season rolls around the toll on the body is manageable.

It’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it!