Seeking Adventure: Pyrenees
Channel: Orbea
Date: 2016-11-07

We were a loosely formed group of 7 friends looking for an adventure and we had one in mind. The idea was to spend six days and nights cycling across the wild and savage Sierra de Guara and following old trading routes across the Pyrenees mountains passing through Ainsa and finishing in Benasque. 

Where possible we spent nights in the towns we passed through and where there were no towns we slept on the mountains. The idea was to try and link up with friends of ours who have chosen to call these places home and who have built a life in these often difficult places; people like Bertrand in the Sierra de Guara, Jorge in Zona Zero and Christophe in Puro Pirineo. 

To help us cross the terrain in the 6 days we used a network of vehicle uplifts but also did plenty of sweating up hills beyond where any road went. Crossing a high mountain pass which would have been used centuries ago for trading we chose to use mules to set camp for us and help us carry our bikes, mimicking the traditional methods and really adding to the sense of adventure.

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