• Day 63: First day in the wilderness.

    March 11, 2016 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Before the lunch we pedaled 50 uneventful kilometers away. Weather was good, road was perfect and the sun was shining. After the lunch we caught up with the road construction amd got 15 km of really bad ripio. But we knew this was only the beginning. Soon we got off the main road on a small farmers road. Wich soon became a double and then a singletrack trough heavy vegetation. We chose this toad a long time ago and have been looking forward to it since. a long time ago there was a road in this valley. But when te bridge collapsed nobody felt like rebuilding it. So the gauchos maintain a small horsetrail trough the valley. But it is used only sparsely. So we push and pull our bikes along this trail and have the time of our live. But it is tough.Read more