Bonus Posted January 5, 2020 Author Posted January 5, 2020 We've had a number of MTB Guiding enquiries over Christmas. Visitors that I'll be helping in the New Year. It won't be long before the days start to lengthen noticably and the sun warms up. January and February are normally pretty dry months and most of the trails around Zona Zero are good all year round anyway. I'm looking forward to getting back out there!
Meezo Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 Thinking about coming for some shredding in late July early August. Will get in touch. Might be based with my brother in law in Barcelona Bonus 1
Bonus Posted January 5, 2020 Author Posted January 5, 2020 Thinking about coming for some shredding in late July early August. Will get in touch. Might be based with my brother in law in Barcelona Excellent!
Bonus Posted January 11, 2020 Author Posted January 11, 2020 (edited) Mid January . . . . the sun is shning and the trails are dry.... It's not what you would call "warm" here yet, but dress properly and after the first climb you'll be fine :-) Did a ride today up to the village of Sieste, which is just outside Boltaña and then came back down on Zona Zero route ZZ-18. It's a nice little loop with some beautiful views of the mountains to the north and of Morcat to the south. Parts of the trail that don't get any sun at this time of year were frozen, but not dangerously so. Was nice to get out there and stretch my legs and my lungs - I have some guiding work this week so I need to be up to scratch! Edited January 11, 2020 by Bonus
Bonus Posted January 14, 2020 Author Posted January 14, 2020 I'm guiding a guy visiting here from the Labanon. On our first ride we expored the Zona Zero Badlands. It was a chilly start while we rode alongside the Rio Cinca but as soon as we climbed up into the hills we warmed up. Turned out to be a beautiful day. The difference between riding in the sun and the shade is significant at this time of year - Sunny and warm versus frosty/icy and cold. Thankfully the shadey spots are few and far between! You can see from the second photo that the Badlands are quite a vast area...... DJR and Albatross 2
Bonus Posted January 14, 2020 Author Posted January 14, 2020 Some more from the Badlands . . . . The last picture is Nehme crossing a partially frozen stream . . . . DJR and shaper 2
Bonus Posted January 18, 2020 Author Posted January 18, 2020 We climbed up to the bench on the Partara, then came down the Partara Express. It a good few hundred meters of climbing but the descent is worth it! DJR, Acre and shaper 3
Bonus Posted February 2, 2020 Author Posted February 2, 2020 Sunny skies, snow topped mountains, dry trails . . . . I love my life! RossW 1
Bonus Posted February 23, 2020 Author Posted February 23, 2020 (edited) Several tough rides over the last few weeks and I'm getting back into it after the winter break. Always amazes me how quickly the human body can get itself back into fairly reasonable shape . . . but then it also amazes me how quickly the human body can get itself back out of shape again if you take a week or ten days off! Temps this weekend were in the low 20's. No one here can believe it because it's really not normal. This time last year there was a dusting of snow on the ground. No bike pics, but I did take a "Spring" picture in Guaso on Friday while I was working on our Project. Edited February 23, 2020 by Bonus Mamil and coppi 2
Bonus Posted February 29, 2020 Author Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) This huge abandonded house - "La Capana" - and its outbuildings, which include a Hermitage and a small Church, are beside the trail of Zona Zero Route ZZ-014 "Camporrotuno and the Treasure of Dineretes" ...... Edited March 2, 2020 by Bonus DJR 1
Bonus Posted February 29, 2020 Author Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) Some more of the house and the view down to the Dam. As you can see, our exceptional weather for this time of year carries on! Edited February 29, 2020 by Bonus DJR 1
Bonus Posted February 29, 2020 Author Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) If I won the Lotto I'd buy the whole lot and turn it into something amazing . . . . Meanwhile, in the real world, let's get our own place done first hey?? Edited February 29, 2020 by Bonus DJR and shaper 2
coppi Posted March 1, 2020 Posted March 1, 2020 If I won the Lotto I'd buy the whole lot and turn it into something amazing . . . . Meanwhile, in the real world, let's get our own place done first hey??Out if interest how much could you buy that for?
Bonus Posted March 1, 2020 Author Posted March 1, 2020 I honestly haven't a clue. Properties like this are unique - so there's no real way of telling. To buy it, have plans drawn up, pay for the planning permission, renovate it, put in a proper access road - curently a badly maintained dirt track which is a couple of km's long, run in mains water and electricity (or go Solar), and pay the relevant taxes . . . . you'd need to have won the Lottery!
Bonus Posted March 17, 2020 Author Posted March 17, 2020 Sadly, just as the season should be picking up speed and people should be flocking to our area to ride the Enduro & XC MTB Trails of Zona Zero or road riding the Cols & Valleys of the Pyrenees, the Corona Virus has, overnight, stopped everything dead in its tracks. I had friends visiting - they arrived from a wet and windy Scotland on Thursday night in their two camper vans for three weeks of riding in the sunshine - and by Sunday lunchtime they were on their way home. Both of them and I are gutted. Spain enetered a State of Emergency on Friday and on Sunday evening a sever restriction of movement of people was announced, to start 8am on Monday morning. The trails are closed, even to locals. There's a 2000€ fine if you get caught Running / Jogging or Cycling at all during the next 15 days. The reason behind this isn't so much a case of keeping people away from each other but rather reducing the number of people who could potentially hurt themselves / be involved in some sort of accident and require hospital treatment. I know some people will argue that you could just as easily have a kitchen related accident over the next 15 days as fall of your bike - but they've had to make decisions and this is one of the calls they've made. If this 15 day quarantine period is enough to slow the spread of the virus, and therefore the demand on hospital treatment, enough then maybe we can salvage the Easter holidays - but I think that's maybe a big ask given the scale of things. At least this is to some degree (or at least we all hope so) a finite problem. Within a period of time this little asshole of a virus will have done it's worst and we can start putting our lives back together. I fear though that the cost we're all going to pay, financially and otherwise, is going to be high. I know there's talk of this virus being too tough to beat, but I can't think along those lines right now. If that turns out to be the case them our little blue dot really is going to be in trouble. Keep well everyone. B. DJR 1
DJR Posted March 17, 2020 Posted March 17, 2020 ..............I know some people will argue that you could just as easily have a kitchen related accident over the next 15 days as fall of your bike ..................Cabin fever is a real disease and can be deadly if kitchen knives get involved........ Bonus 1
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