The lodge is ready for our first group of mountain bikers of the season. ¡Vamos!
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything. You just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our trips, so feel free to get in touch.
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We've been exploring more sections of the Trans Nevada bikepacking route, for future editions of our Sierra Nevada Gravel Bike Tour. These pics are from the remote but beautiful Almería stages.
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything. You just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our trips, so feel free to get in touch.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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We can't wait for our new MTB season to start!
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We kick off again in September, so get in touch and prepare for your next epic adventure!!
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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Always exploring!
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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Here are some memories from the beginning of 2024.
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We've had some brilliant days on the bike and there'll be many more!!
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
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☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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In April, guide Jenny and friend @tatianabroman joined ultra-endurance rider @laelwilcox and 70 others for the Komoot Women’s Badlands Rally.
@Komoot published a 681km route based on the venerated @badlandscc ultracycling race course (not far from Pure Mountains!), but a bit shorter and with “only” 12,000m of climbing.
Over to Jenny…
“What an adventure! We pedalled from the city of Granada through forests, badlands, deserts, mountains, and coastal paths. Riding all day, every day for a week, with nothing to worry about except climbing and descending, eating and sleeping was like being in Wonderland. Well, I did have to worry about stuffing all my kit into slightly inadequate bags each morning…seat rocket, anyone?!
Storms early on led to riders becoming dispersed. The organisers suggested some shortcuts and a rest day. We took some of the shortcuts, re-routed slightly, using the Komoot route planner, and carried on. Partly because we didn’t want to stop and partly because we had booked hotels, which were heavenly at the end of each exhausting day. Table, chair, bed, shower, washing machine: simple pleasures!
It was very satisfying to find we were able to ride long, consecutive days and to keep (mostly) smiling.
My highlights:
• Discovering new landscapes and villages and fitting them together with those I already knew was fascinating. Komoot was a brilliant tool for this, though it did puzzle us occasionally.
• The hypnotic joy of endless hours of pedalling, with all its highs and lows.
• Riding with a good friend, making decisions together, laughing, talking nonsense and discussing whether we would ever take on the “real” Badlands.
• Finally riding the rally, after weeks of preparation.
Huge thanks to Badlands for dreaming up this adventure and generously sharing it with us; to Komoot for organising and funding the rally; to the team on the ground who kept the show on the road and to the other riders who made it such an experience.”
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CROSS COUNTRY RACING IS "FUN"!
Guides Tim and Jenny had a big night yesterday...
We entered a round of the Granada province MTB half marathon series. It was in Dúrcal, on the western edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Wow, it was hard! 41km with 966m of climbing. It started at 6pm on a warm evening, and everyone took off like scalded cats. Some of the route was on sandy gravel (everyone's favourite surface 😉) and there was some amazing singletrack.
We both went through the usual racing highs and lows: from "Wow, this is amazing and I am riding like a genius" to "God, I'm not going to finish this race before I explode".
Tim came second in the male master 50s. Jenny was the fastest (and only) female master 50 😉. Why aren't there more 50s women racing? Fantastic prizes and a great atmosphere in the paddock.
It's so inspiring to get in amongst fanatical riders and see what you can do! Let us know in the comments if you race and what you get from it.
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
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☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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Springtime in the mountains. Just wonderful 😁
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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An ode to joy from today's ride!
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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#PureMountains #SierraNevada #Andalucía #Spain
#mtb #mountainbike #instabike #mtbphotos #gravelbike #gravelbiking #gravelbiketours #gravelbikeholidays #mountainbikeadventure #bike #hiking #hikingspain #Mountains #mtblife #mountainbikeholidays #MTBholidays #MTBadventures #MTBvacations #MountainBikingSpain #MTBSpain #enduro #trailriding
The Valley of Death 💀trail is just perfect at the moment!
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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#PureMountains #SierraNevada #Andalucía #Spain
#mtb #mountainbike #instabike #mtbphotos #gravelbike #gravelbiking #gravelbiketours #gravelbikeholidays #mountainbikeadventure #bike #hiking #hikingspain #Mountains #mtblife #mountainbikeholidays #MTBholidays #MTBadventures #MTBvacations #MountainBikingSpain #MTBSpain #enduro #trailriding
Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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#PureMountains #SierraNevada #Andalucía #Spain
#mtb #mountainbike #instabike #mtbphotos #gravelbike #gravelbiking #gravelbiketours #gravelbikeholidays #mountainbikeadventure #bike #hiking #hikingspain #Mountains #mtblife #mountainbikeholidays #MTBholidays #MTBadventures #MTBvacations #MountainBikingSpain #MTBSpain #enduro #trailriding
After a week in which guides Tim and Jenny were off gravelling in one form or another, it's back to the bouncy bikes and singletrack heaven!
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This week's group of mtbers are in for an absolute treat: wonderful.weather, trails and company.
"Simply perfect' - Chris B.
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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Breakfast like a 👑 at Pure Mountains.
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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Good things come to those that wait...
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Christian and his friends from Belgium are back at Pure Mountains this week. Their first visit was in 2008!
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It's great to welcome back previous guests, however long it's been 😁.
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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Guide Jenny is joining the Komoot Women's Badlands Rally in April. It's a gathering of 50 women from around the world, riding 700km over 7 days, through Andalucía's Badlands and beyond. The idea is to encourage more women into ultra bikepacking events. Cool!
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So, she's been trialling bike setup. It's not easy to balance capacity and function 🤣.
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Any tips?
Blue skies, white villages and perfect trails.
Good morning all!!
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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#mtb #mountainbike #instabike #mtbphotos #gravelbike #gravelbiking #gravelbiketours #gravelbikeholidays #mountainbikeadventure #bike #hiking #hikingspain #Mountains #mtblife #mountainbikeholidays #MTBholidays #MTBadventures #MTBvacations #MountainBikingSpain #MTBSpain #enduro #trailriding
A beautiful winter's ride 😁
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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Here are some snippets from a recent winter ride.
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Beautiful 😁
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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#PureMountains #SierraNevada #Andalucía #Spain
#mtb #mountainbike #instabike #mtbphotos #gravelbike #gravelbiking #gravelbiketours #gravelbikeholidays #mountainbikeadventure #bike #hiking #hikingspain #Mountains #mtblife #mountainbikeholidays #MTBholidays #MTBadventures #MTBvacations #MountainBikingSpain #MTBSpain #enduro #trailriding
We've been scouting today for our new Two Desrts Gravel Tour. This is the climb out of the village of Gorafe, where we'll be staying in caves. What a view!
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Guides Jenny and Tatiana have also signed up for the @komoot #WomensBadlandsRally, so they were killing 🐦⬛🐦⬛ with one stone!
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#komootwomensrally
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Pure Mountains: boutique mountain biking, gravel biking and hiking adventures in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains. Join us for a spectacular, wilderness experience. We take care of everything; you just enjoy the adventure!
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We love to talk about our holidays, so don't hesitate to get in touch, at any time.
✉ [email protected]
☎️/WhatsApp +34 686032003
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#PureMountains #SierraNevada #Andalucía #Spain
#mtb #mountainbike #instabike #mtbphotos #gravelbike #gravelbiking #gravelbiketours #gravelbikeholidays #mountainbikeadventure #bike #hiking #hikingspain #Mountains #mtblife #mountainbikeholidays #MTBholidays #MTBadventures #MTBvacations #MountainBikingSpain #MTBSpain #enduro #trailriding