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A phone was found by someone out on one of the trails used for the Zona Zero "Inframundo" race the other weekend. They handed it in to the Tourist Information Office in Ainsa and now it has been reunited with the person that lost it.

 

Firstly, it's cool that it was spotted - dropped "somewhere" on the 66km long route!

Secondly, it's cool that it was handed in.

 

I do love this community we live in here in Spain.

 

:-)

[Odinson]

There are so many different types of terrain around Ainsa :-)

 

A typical ride can contain Fire roads, Jeep tack, Single track, Grassy fields, through some Forest, across the odd dry river bed or stream along the top of a Ridge and, if you really want to . . . . riding down boulders!

 

I tend not to do the "Boulder" thing myself, but lots of people do . . . .

 

Hey, that's BKXC.

[coppi]

A phone was found by someone out on one of the trails used for the Zona Zero "Inframundo" race the other weekend. They handed it in to the Tourist Information Office in Ainsa and now it has been reunited with the person that lost it.

 

Firstly, it's cool that it was spotted - dropped "somewhere" on the 66km long route!

Secondly, it's cool that it was handed in.

 

I do love this community we live in here in Spain.

 

:-)

That would also happen here if found by a MTBer on any of our trails...................

[NicoBoshoff]

Hey, that's BKXC.

Those guys are straaaaaaange.

 

Seth is rad, but Alex and this BKXC guy...it's weird seeing a group ride with everyone in it talking into their cameras for their "viewers". 

[Odinson]

Those guys are straaaaaaange.

 

Seth is rad, but Alex and this BKXC guy...it's weird seeing a group ride with everyone in it talking into their cameras for their "viewers". 

 

I subscribe to all three on YouTube and usually watch all of Seth's videos, but will only watch one of the other two's videos every once in a while. Not really my thing to watch every video. 

[NicoBoshoff]

I subscribe to all three on YouTube and usually watch all of Seth's videos, but will only watch one of the other two's videos every once in a while. Not really my thing to watch every video. 

Same.  Seth is the OG.

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That would also happen here if found by a MTBer on any of our trails...................

 

 

I remember stuff often being handed in at NF and Heia when I use to ride there. It's nice :-)

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Going to do a bit of exploring today. Will try out a few trails & routes I haven't ridden before.

[coppi]

After all that brick laying you need a trail ride to put a smile back on your face.........[emoji106]

 

 

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After all that brick laying you need a trail ride to put a smile back on your face.........[emoji106]

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It always works

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Had a great Sunday ride which included around 1200m of climbing with my friend from the UK and his daughter. As always, the views were amazing and it was a beautiful sunny day - but not too hot.

 

https://www.relive.cc/view/g15051447456

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(This is a really big deal for us so I'm putting it here AND on our "Big Adventure . . . " thread.)

 

 

This is fantastic news for us - partly because we are Roadies as well as MTB'ers and partly from a business point of view. Opening up the area to allow Roadies to enjoy it as much as the Dirty Riders already do is a great move!

 

 

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There are only a few weeks left until the new Zona Zero initiative comes into being!

 

ZONA ZERO ROAD - A project dedicated to the road bicycle . . .

 

After many months of work and thanks to the selfless help of a few local volunteers, without whom it would have been impossible to make any progress with this project, on the weekend of November 17-19 we will welcome "Zona Zero Road" - a project that is dedicated to the road bicycle and reaffirms the position of the region of Sobrarbe as a world center for cycling tourism.

 

A total of 13 routes (with many variants) will allow the lovers of the "skinny wheels" to explore Sobrarbe and its surrounding areas, but this time by road.

 

Taking in many towns within the Sobrabe and neighbouring regions, the valleys of Añisclo & Ordesa, or those of Chistau & Pineta are just some of the routes proposed in the Pyrenean region. The route to Alquézar passes through Biello Sobrarbe and the villages and canyons of the of the Sierra de Guara.Natural Park.

 

There is also a Spanish/French "cross-border collaboration" with plans for routes that cross the Pyrenees to join the Aure and Louron valleys, where you will find some of the most mythical climbs of le Tour de France, including the Col de Peyresourde, Col d'Aspin, Tourmalet and Col d'Aze.

 

The routes will be presented on the Zona Zero website www.bttpirineo.com with illustrative photos, maps, profiles as well as a route summary and the average gradients of the climbs.

 

The Route Profiles have a design that is very similar to those used for the stages of le Tour de France and have been made, just like the maps, using the free Route Editor on the "www.cronoescalada.com" website - to whom we are especially grateful for their help!

 

Next year will see the installation of route signs, the publication of leaflets and brochures and an upload to the web of the exhaustive profiles of each mountain climb. . . . .

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Last week we were invited to the local movie theater in Boltaña to see the premier of a movie that was made locally with financial help from several local councils and "Crowd Funding".

 

The film was called "Ara Salvaje" which translates into "the wild river Ara" and it's a story about a local man, Martin Campoy, who wanted to ride, document and promote the last remaining wild river in this area, the river Ara.

 

The film was in Spanish but we got the general idea of what was going on. More importantly we got to see some fantastic footage, including shots taken from a drone, of the river Ara that passes through Boltaña and Ainsa on it's way from the top of the mountains down into the Mediano Dam.

 

We cross this river every time we go pretty much anywhere from our house and we swim in it in the Summer. Rivers are important here and this movie did a good job of showing that.

 

Watch this Promo clip that was made when the rider and his wife were originally fundraising and get a taste of where it is that we live . . . .  :-)

 

 

https://youtu.be/AuVRiPQCSLw

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2018 is just around the corner and with it a new season of the Enduro World Series - which returns to Zone Zero, Ainsa in Spain next September . . .

 

Can't wait! :-)

 

https://youtu.be/X_A-DczMxj0

Edited December 8, 2017 by Bonus

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"Rutas Carretera de Zona Zero" (The Road Routes of Zona Zero)

 

Zona Zero has released details of the "Road Bike Cycling Routes" that I talked about on here a little while ago.

 

There are 13 Routes in all - 10 are in Spain and 3 are in France, in the district that adjoins Zona Zero to the north and with which Zona Zero is collaborating for this special project.

 

On the website "https://bttpirineo.com/es/road" each route has a description summary, a map, a hill profile and guide notes.

 

The routes are all circuits and you are able to join them at any point and "do a lap". You can also combine routes to make routes to suit yourself.

 

The shortest route, ZR-06, is 45km long with 1300m of climbing.

The longest route is a variation of route ZR-01 which is 189km long and has 3900m of climbing.

 

I'm looking forward to going out and testing them all in Spring!

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Every year at Christmas time, Angel from Zona Zero and his dogs unveil a new route that he's put together as a Gift to everyone.

 

This year the Route is ZZ046 which starts and finishes in Tierrantona and goes up to the Muro de Roda church. It's in the same area as ZZ04 Light but takes some different paths.

 

In Angels own words (via Google Translate!) . . .

 

"Merry Christmas. Papa Noël has left us all a gift - a new route! It will be called ZZ046 and it is the first route of the new future for Zona Zero.

 

It is totally signed with arrows from Tierrantona, although you can leave from Charo or Aluján too and complete the circle. 23 km long, 875 m Climbing and 60% is on the trail"