{"id":13026,"date":"2017-11-24T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/?p=13026"},"modified":"2024-11-29T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:54:29","slug":"high-pyrenees-mountain-bike-adventure-orbea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/es\/alta-aventura-pirenaica-en-bicicleta-de-montana-orbea\/","title":{"rendered":"Aventura \u00e9pica en bicicleta de monta\u00f1a por los Altos Pirineos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h2>High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: A Mountain Bike Holiday in the Making<\/h2>\n<h3>Photos thanks to Matt Wragg and Sam Needham<\/h3>\n<p>These trips started, like most things, as an idea. It was an idea that grew arms and legs during post ride drinks and as we chatted while we drove our guests on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/es\/pyrenees-mountain-bike-tours-spain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mountain bike holidays through the Pyrenees<\/a>. We talked about the high Pyrenees mountain bike adventure would we like to have, if we had a week free and no restrictions. We started talking about it to guests as we drove through the mountains and gauging interest. We talked with people we knew in various areas and the ideas kept pouring in. It grew and grew until it had it\u00b4s own momentum and it felt like this trip just had to happen. We had to make it happen. This is the story of the big adventures which grew from that little idea. It is the story of some of the <strong>best adventures of my life<\/strong>, something special which we made happen and the amazing experiences which came from a series of risks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-2-of-2.jpg'); background-position: center 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">Each day had a little carrying, less than an hour<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-15-of-29.jpg'); background-position: right 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">The rewards were absolutely spectacular<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees: The Background and Thanks to Orbea<\/h3>\n<p>As mountain bike guides part of our job is to tame adventure, to shape it and bring it, in a safe package, to our guests. Our trips are very adventurous but in reality we have looked at the risks, mitigated against them and stacked alternatives on alternatives so that we always have good, safe options for our groups. This is simple enough to plan when we only need some support with uplift or a lift back to the van at the end of the day. When you include teams of mules, high mountian campsites and helicopter uplifts it becomes a lot more difficult. After a long time talking about our High Pyrenees mountain bike adventure we finally got the opportunity to test it in two parts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/es\/orbea-rallon-r5-2018-review\/\">thanks to Orbea<\/a>. It is one of the things I really like about working with an adventerous, forward looking company like Orbea; when we talked to them about these ideas, slightly crazy though they were, they were instantly really excited to get involved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: Jump to a section<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"fa-ul\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"fa-ul\">\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a href=\"#The Plan\">High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: The Plan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a href=\"#A Night on the Mountains\">High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: A Night on the Mountains<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a href=\"#Getting High\">High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: Getting High<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a href=\"#Mule Train\">High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: Mule Train<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a href=\"#Enduro\">High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: Going Enduro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a href=\"#Helicopter Uplifts\">High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: The Helicopter Angle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a href=\"#Reflecting\">High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: Reflections and Trip Videos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"fa-ul\">\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a href=\"#High Pyrenees Super Trip\">The Future &#8211; A High Pyrenees Super Trip?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SNeedham_BasqueTrip_101.jpg'); background-position: right 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">Pete riding high, high in the Pyrenees!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-21-of-29.jpg'); background-position: center 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">Chasing new friends down a vertical mile of perfect singletrack<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"The Plan\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: The Plan<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;What could go wrong?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> is something I ask myself most days; I believe it is a critical part of my job. For once I had a definitive answer to that questions. It was &#8220;everything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure would take us from the flat ground north of the Ebro river across the wilderness of the Sierra de Guara, through Zona Zero and up into the high Pyrenees mountains before crossing all the way to the Benasque Valley. We aimed to do the trip in as linear a manner as possible, plotting a straight journey from the planes to the peaks, however to cover these distances while sticking to the best trails we knew we needed some help with the climbs and we had a few ideas around that. Each person would have to carry their equipment for the day but the basqueMTB team would be supporting us and moving our bags to our next stop and preparing us picnic lunches on the way. <strong>Adventure doesn\u00b4t have to be a stranger to comfort after all!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-22-of-29.jpg'); background-position: right 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">Crossing Guara on our way to our hut stop on the 2nd night.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-5-of-29.jpg'); background-position: center 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">Our amazing stop for the night.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"A Night on the Mountains\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees: A Beginning and Night on the Mountains<\/h3>\n<p>For this first High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure we had Paul Hubert from VojoMag, Pete Scullion from Scotland, Muriel Bohout from MTBPro, Sam Needham on photo duties and Ian Baquerin filming. The first day we rode through the tough, rocky trails of Guara, an area where you fight for every inch of progress and the trails are hard on the riders and on the bikes; as the locals say, \u201cGuara: si quiere, te mata\u201d or <strong>\u201cGuara: If it wants to it will kill you\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was to finish the day with a climb up to the highest peak in the area at around 2000m. We knew we needed to reach the summit by 7:00pm to give us enough light to descend in, however as we were climbing a dense bank of cloud formed on the western horizon and it was obvious that we were going to be treated to an early, but glorious, sunset. It was a hard decision to make but we just didn\u00b4t have enough light to safely reach the peak. We had arrived to within 60 vertical meters of the summit but we were out of options and turned to start descending with the last rays of sunlight pushing at our backs. We raced the setting sun down the mountain but although we descended fast and hard, the sun descended faster and harder and soon we had almost no light left.<\/p>\n<p>I was leading the charge and was glad of the trust I have built up in my bike over countless hours in the saddle this year as I pointed it towards the lightest places I could see and trusted in it to do the rest as we whooped and hollered down the barely seen singletrack. Just as we ran out of light and could safely go no further we reached a shoulder on the mountain and spied a small, lonely hut with firelight flickering enticingly in the windows. This was our stop for the night and we had a fire going, beers chilling and food cooking thanks to the local cowboy, Bertrand and his amazing daughter Eva. Leaving our bikes in the dark outside we entered into the warm hut with it\u00b4s flickering candles and smells of cooking. It was an emotional, almost religious experience to arrive to that place high on the mountain after a long, tough day on the bikes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-29-of-29.jpg'); background-position: center bottom !important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">Muriel hauling it on some dusty singletrack after descending almost a vertical mile<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-7-of-12.jpg'); background-position: center 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">This trip definitely isn\u00b4t all downhill, there are some long, remote climbs as well<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<p>That night we ate deep-fried breadcrumbs, drank wine and talked deep into the night. When the time came to seek our our beds we stumbled, a little drunkenly, out into the night and were treated to an incredible spectacle above us. The skies were clear and filled with stars but on the other side of the mountain a thunderstorm was raging and the flashing lightning was silently lighting up the sky and throwing patterns across the stars above us. It was an amazing end to an amazing day, something which will live on in my memory for ever. Today was an intense experience which I was glad to share with this group of people; people who had been strangers this morning but which were being forged, in the fires of adventure, into a tightknit group ready to support each other through the trials ahead. So far our\u00a0High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure was surpassing expectations!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-9-of-29.jpg'); background-position: right 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">Getting a bit loose in a tunnel with 500m of vertical out that gap<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-17-of-29.jpg'); background-position: center 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">Our trail stretching forever out in front of us<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"Getting High\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees: Getting up High in the Mountains<\/h3>\n<p>The next morning, we woke early to blue skies and cold air. We had coffee and breakfast and the group diverged out from the hut to plant our pinetrees in secret places. We had a big day ahead of us, potentially the toughest of the trip as we traversed across Guara to reach Ainsa. As the group were coming to know Guara doesn\u00b4t give up its secrets easily and we were expecting to pay for today\u00b4s passage with sweat and maybe with blood and tears as well. Luckily for us everything worked perfectly and we crossed one of Spain\u00b4s real wildernesses without incident, reaching the boundaries of Zona Zero early in the afternoon. With Ainsa in our sights we rode a few stages from the EWS race which had been held here the year before, their well ridden singletracks providing a sharp contrast to the anti-flow trails of Guara. Our weary group rolled into Ainsa just as the sun dropped and night rolled out over the mountains. We didn\u00b4t even make it to our apartments but instead we decided to stock up immediately on fuel (beer and pizza!) Everyone slept well that night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-20-of-29.jpg'); background-position: 30% 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">Very, very fun singletrack. Doug getting some shapes on!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-16-of-29.jpg'); background-position: 70% 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">At the very top there is no vegetation and often only the faintest hint of a trail. Freeride!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<p>From here we headed high into the mountains. <strong>If the first couple of days we had journeyed <em>a<\/em> the highest mountains, and now we were starting to make our way <em>across<\/em> y <em>over<\/em><\/strong> them. The High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure was really living up to its name! We used vehicle uplift as far as possible and when that could go no further we shouldered our bikes and headed higher. On one trail we rode an amazing old aqueduct cut into a thousand meter cliff in the mountains while the vultures circled all around us. On another we carried around an hour up to an exposed mountain top and rode for hours downhill until the singletrack spat out out right at a bar where we slept that night. A different adventure saw us riding and carrying our bikes up over 2700m on an incredible moonscape and hunkering down out of the wind to eat our sandwiches before dropping 1400 vertical meters on the most perfect singletrack all the way to the valley below. We rode and crashed and laughed and rode some more. Much more. These days passed in a blur of high mountains and singletrack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-1-of-2-2.jpg'); background-position: center 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">Our mule-suppled high mountain campsite<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-2-of-2-2.jpg'); background-position: left 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">And what we woke up to in the morning<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"Mule Train\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees: Mules and High Mountain Camping<\/h3>\n<p>The second afternoon we took a 4&#215;4 lift high into the mountains and unloaded our bikes as the sun set, leaving us to follow a crepuscular singeltrack deep into the mountains. After a few minutes of pedalling we saw two shapes looming out of the murk ahead of us, as we moved forwards the shapes slowly resolved themselves into <strong>two men, leading two mules<\/strong>. We followed them by the light of their head torches, down into the base of the mountains and reached a high mountain lake, an Ibon. Following the shores of the lake we saw the welcome glow of the tents where we would spend the night. Leaving our bikes on the cold ground we entered a big tent where there was light, and food and most importantly beer and wine!<\/p>\n<p>We ate like kings that night, looking out of the tent at the millions of stars which lit the sky and were reflected in the ibon. We told stories of the ghost which haunts the lake, a Muslim queen who rises on the longest day of the year and can only be seen by the pure of heart. As we scared ourselves with ghost stories the temperatures dropped rapidly. Fortified with wine we finally crawled into our sleeping bags, most of us wearing all of our clothes. <strong>I don\u00b4t think that Adventure really arrives until it rides in on the back of Suffering<\/strong> and for us it arrived that night. Despite the hardship and cold, it was an amazing experience to be sleeping and eating that high in the mountains with the mules tied up to a post just outside our tents. Lying there that night watching the stars, all those hours and all the stress of organising our High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure was really paying off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-26-of-29.jpg'); background-position: center 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">Loading up the mules. This is a traditional use of the trails we are on.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-1-of-3.jpg'); background-position: left 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">Really, really remote singletrack.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<p>That morning we saddled up the mules and very carefully, very slowly we loaded our bikes onto them. All the bikes were weighed and put into matching pairs, one to be strapped on either side of the mule. Everything that was sharp or pointy was carefully covered with thick foam. This wasn\u2019t to protect the bikes but to care for the animals. When one of the bike-pairs didn\u00b4t match exactly in weight a bag was filled with stones to make the weights exact. During this whole process the mule guides, Alberto and Alvaro, were talking to the two mules, and it was touching to see the care they took and the obvious love they held for the animals. These mules are almost 30 years old and it\u00b4s a long term relationship, something it was very obvious when you watch man and animal working together. This was going to be a very light load for the mules, normally they carry much heavier weights and the only issue was the height of the bike with some low trees on the route. Careful manoeuvring and detouring was undertaken and after over an hour of walking we arrived to a high mountain coll, looking down on our lakeside camp far below and behind us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<p>The mountains stretched away eastward of us and it was down into these mountains that our route would take us. The ride down was intense, we largely descended for the whole afternoon, arriving once again as the sun was setting. The trail was <strong>technical in the extreme<\/strong>, serious anti-flow and very trials-like in places. For this group of experienced riders who had come to trust deeply in their bikes it was an absolute riot. We finished deep down in a canyon, another special experience after starting high up on a mountain-top. That night I could hardly hold a beer and our group settled into a quiet comradery around the dinner table, which was only occasionally broken by Pete\u00b4s wisecracking which was subdued and halfhearted. Sleep came fast and deep tonight but all too soon morning broke and we had to force our tired bodies out of warm beds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-12-of-15.jpg'); background-position: 80% 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">High mountain singletrack, uplifted this time!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-2-of-26.jpg'); background-position: 30% 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">It was nice to be honest to have a break from high consequence mountain singletrack and just get our enduro on for a while.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"Enduro\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: A day of enduro mountain biking to recover!<\/h3>\n<p>The last day we enjoyed some uplifts around the Valle de Benasque and Puro Pirineo. We took it easy and enjoyed some flowing trails and relatively little pedalling. It is at this point that we have an overlap with the second trip I ran with Orbea this year, the Orbea Rallon press launch. This trip starts where the other finishes, giving me the idea to <strong>stitch them together into a definitive\u00a0High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure!<\/strong> This was a more intense experience as we had 4 different groups of journalists repeating the same two days, meaning 8 intense days of guiding for me. The first day we ran uplifts around the valley, racking up almost 5000m of descending in a day. It was a brutal but hugely enjoyable experience! What was really nice was to get some more flowing, less high mountain \/ high consequence trails and to take the skills we had honed riding all the way up there to these lower trails; it felt like I could ride anything!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-1-of-1.jpg'); background-position: 30% 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-l\">Helicopter uplifts, if done properly it really opens up new posisbilities<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-16-of-26.jpg'); background-position: 20% 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">Like this one, having energy to boost after a 2000m climb!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"Helicopter Uplifts\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees: Helicopter Uplifts and Incredible Descents<\/h3>\n<p>The second day of the press launch was special and really let me test out the idea of helicopter uplift, something that has just become possible in the Pyrenees thanks to our friend Pablo. What I realised was that if you treat the <strong>helicopter as a pure uplift <\/strong>then it\u00b4s just not economically viable, however if you use the helicopter as part of the day it makes a lot more sense. The day we planned started with an early morning hike up to the French-Spanish border, high up in the Pyrenees. We used mules so that we didn\u00b4t have to carry our bikes for this 90 minute hike which gave us time to enjoy the incredible views.<\/p>\n<p>As incredible as the sights were however they fade from memory against the trail which descends from here, down into France. We <strong>pass through a notch in the backbone of the Pyrenees<\/strong>; towering over our heads but narrow enough to let you touch both sides at once. The trail is narrow, exposed and has lots and lots of really tough switchbacks and it goes on, and on, and on. You descend an incredible amount all the way to the French valley below. From here there is a beautiful, and challenging, singletrack climb before the trail continues down on more technical singletrack but in the woods this time. Eventually you arrive to a small, pretty French village and it\u00b4s time for the next part of this trip.<\/p>\n<p>A lift to the top in the gondola and as you emerge you hear it&#8230; it\u00b4s our helicopter coming for us! The intensity of the experience shouldn\u00b4t be underestimated, it was exciting, to the point of being emotional for some people. We climbed high, passing over the highest mountains in the Pyrenees and were <strong>dropped off on a black ridgeline almost 3 km up in the sky<\/strong>. From here the trail descends for hours, changing as it nears the valley below but always fantastic and technical. The trail literally ends at the bar and those beers have never tasted so good. If the high mountain camping was the Ying, then this was the Yang, a totally different but none-the-less unforgettable experience that just put the cherry on top of this cake!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-10-of-26.jpg'); background-position: 30% 80%!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">The views up here are absolutely stunning.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"banner\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/basqueMTB-19-of-26.jpg'); background-position: 20% top!important;\">\n<div class=\"banner-text-r\">You don\u00b4t have to ride it like this but if you can why wouldn\u00b4t you. The one and only Tomi Misser<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"Reflecting\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees Mountain Bike Adventure: A Reflection<\/h3>\n<p>We had shared a profound experience, something that for me at least ranks up there with some of the most enjoyable experiences of my life. It was Ferris Bueller who said \u201clife moves pretty fast, if you don\u00b4t stop and look around once in a while you might miss it\u201d. These adventures really force you to stop and look around; it feels like someone stops the hamster-wheel and you can step out for a while. Which is crazy when you consider that most days we never stopped moving from first light to last light, however that\u00b4s how it felt. They give a break from the routine, you don\u00b4t have time to think about anything other than what you are doing, and the only problems you encounter are immediate and over-comeable. On our adventures I made some memories that will stay fresh for a long, long time. We went seeking adventure and we definitely found it and with that adventure <strong>I found a reprise from a world where things are often complicated and often can\u00b4t be solved with a dose of man-up-and-get-on-with-it or a dash of brute force and ignorance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"High Pyrenees Super Trip\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Future &#8211; A High Pyrenees Super Trip?<\/h2>\n<p>What is coming in the future? Well my idea is to take these two incredible experiences and stitch them together into one trip, a <strong><em>High Pyrenees super trip<\/em><\/strong> if you like. The route would be more or less the same but we would include <strong>two helicopter trips<\/strong>, one in the middle and one at the end, to let us get to some places which wouldn\u00b4t be practical otherwise. It would be something to do once in a lifetime, probably not an every year occurrence. The idea would be to have a couple of high mountain camps, using the mules to support us, and include one or two helicopter assisted days. The trip is going to be expensive, there is no other way to do it, but we would make sure it\u00b4s great value for money and I don\u00b4t think this type of trip is possible in Europe at the moment. It would only be for people we know from previous trips, or who have people we know who can vouch for them. The idea would be to cross the highest mountains in the Pyrenees with 4&#215;4, mule and helicopter support over a 6 or 7 day trip and more details will go up on the website over the next few weeks as I pull it all together. The idea is to run one trip in mid to late July. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basquemtb.com\/es\/que-incluye\/ponerse-en-contacto\/\">If you\u00b4re interested then get in touch!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-fullscreen\">\n<h3>High Pyrenees: Trip Videos<\/h3>\n<p>There are two videos from the trips, if you would like to get a real idea of what we did then I think these are great.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuwEA7OiZ3I\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nps20pbxOlM\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"color:#32373c;background-color:#ffc4c4\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-notice text-fullscreen gb-font-size-undefined gb-font-size-18 gb-block-notice\" data-id=\"9b51fe\"><div class=\"gb-notice-title\" style=\"color:#272c30\"><p>High Pyrenees 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