6 Reasons to Do a Multi-Day Mountain Bike Trip

March 21, 2019

Moun­tain bik­ing after work or hit­ting the trails on the week­end is a great way to decom­press, stay in shape and con­nect with your rid­ing pals, but every so often to tru­ly recharge your bat­ter­ies, you should think about plan­ning a mul­ti-day moun­tain bike trip. Get out of town, hit the road, dis­cov­er a new des­ti­na­tion and ride, ride, ride. Trust us, you’ll cre­ate mem­o­ries that will last a lifetime.

Here Are 6 Reasons to Do a Multi-Day Mountain Bike Trip

1. TO TRULY DISCONNECT
   When you’re trav­el­ling for mul­ti­ple days com­pared to rid­ing for a cou­ple of hours, it’s much eas­i­er to dis­con­nect from work and the busy­ness of every­day life. Put your phone in air­plane mode and recon­nect with what mat­ters most — the trail ahead,  your rid­ing pals and strength­en­ing your friendships. 

2. TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF
   When rid­ing your local trails you can antic­i­pate every cor­ner, obsta­cle, climb and tech­ni­cal descent. Your skills improve with every ride, but when you trav­el to a new moun­tain bike des­ti­na­tion you expe­ri­ence new trails and new chal­lenges that progress your skills even further.

3. TO EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT WAYS OF LIFE
   You don’t have to trav­el far from home to meet extra­or­di­nary peo­ple and dis­cov­er new ways of life. Trav­el­ling often allows you to gain new per­spec­tives and self-aware­ness about your own habits as well as your rela­tion­ship to the world around you and pro­vides a fresh out­look on what’s important.

4. TO CONNECT WITH OTHERS IN THE OUTDOORS
   The out­door com­mu­ni­ty is full of kind, gen­er­ous, knowl­edgable and adven­tur­ous souls. Meet­ing oth­er moun­tain bik­ers at the trail­head and talk­ing to the locals about des­ti­na­tion-spe­cif­ic trav­el tips will open up path­ways that fos­ter new friend­ships. Tak­ing time to escape on a mul­ti-day adven­ture allows you to immerse your­self in the local cul­ture, com­mu­ni­ty and con­nect with locals on a dif­fer­ent level.

5. TO LIVE IN THE MOMENT
   It’s dif­fi­cult to think about what your boss said last week when there’s a new trail to explore. For many, moun­tain bik­ing is a kind of med­i­ta­tion and escape from dai­ly stres­sors. This sense of liv­ing in the moment mul­ti­plies when you can ride for a few days in a row. Trust us, you’ll be return­ing to work with a big grin and noth­ing but incred­i­ble moun­tain bike stories.

6. TO RELEASE ENDORPHINS
   When you fin­ish a bike ride, there is a rea­son you feel ener­gized and hap­py — sci­ence! That’s right when you sweat and move your body, you release endor­phins and oth­er ‘hap­py hor­mones’ that help change your mood for the bet­ter. Exer­cise also reduces the secre­tion of cor­ti­sol, the hor­mone that caus­es stress and is a proven rem­e­dy for anx­i­ety and depres­sion.   Exer­cise mul­ti­ple days in a row and you’ll be the hap­pi­est moun­tain bik­er around town.