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What Does Mountain Biking Teach You About Life?

May 9, 2022

Good writ­ers have often used sport as a metaphor for life: the lessons of the play­ing field or are­na applied to dai­ly liv­ing. If Nor­man Mail­er (box­ing), William Kennedy (base­ball) and John Irv­ing (wrestling) had spent time on a moun­tain bike, they would have learned: The 20 Life Lessons in…

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Best of the Canadian Rockies Singletrack

March 16, 2022

Have you been dream­ing of rid­ing the incred­i­ble sin­gle­track of the Cana­di­an Rock­ies? If not, we encour­age you to start. We have four unfor­get­table tours lined up for you—they all have some­thing unique to offer and vary in length, loca­tion, and dif­fi­cul­ty. Rocky Moun­tain Ram­bler­Rocky Moun­tain Sin­gle­track­West Koote­nay Round-UpRocky Mountain…

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For Women

Calling All Lady Shredders

September 30, 2021

For all the ladies (cis, trans, and non-bina­ry) look­ing to leave the men at home while you kick back and catch some flowy sin­gle­track with just the girls—we’ve got you cov­ered! Sacred Rides cur­rent­ly offers 4 unique women’s moun­tain bike tours (with more in the works). Moun­tain Bike Mec­ca of…

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Mountain Biking in St. George, Utah: Salt on the Rim with a Side of Guac

May 7, 2021

You’ve all heard that say­ing “April show­ers bring May flow­ers,” but this is not the case in SW Utah. On our last Sin­ners and Saints moun­tain bike tour in Utah that wrapped up on the last day of April, we saw a sweep­ing array of beau­ti­ful bloom­ing cac­ti and wild­flow­ers pop­ping out of the dry desert…

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Mountain Biking in Quebec: a Photo Journal

August 20, 2020

You prob­a­bly know about Que­bec’s maple syrup and french fries cov­ered in cheese curds and gravy, but did you know it has an equal­ly delec­table net­work of pur­pose-built sin­gle­track? And that net­work is with­in just a short dri­ve of the UNESCO World Her­itage Site of Old Québec City. Sim­ply put,…

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Mountain Biking (and Whitewater Rafting) in Patagonia: for Serious Adventurer-Seekers Only

August 19, 2020

Escape to par­adise at the end of the world, where you’ll spend 9 days moun­tain bik­ing and white water raft­ing in Patag­o­nia. This itin­er­ary, led by expe­ri­enced and knowl­edge­able local guides in the remote regions of the spec­tac­u­lar Andes moun­tain range, is the per­fect com­bi­na­tion for adven­ture-seek­ers. Watch the video…

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Ride the Mustang: Journal of a Mountain Bike Tour in Nepal

December 11, 2019

Won­der­ing what it’s like to ride two wheels through the world’s high­est peaks? Read author and pho­tog­ra­ph­er Bryan Cole’s expe­ri­ence on one leg of our moun­tain bike tour through Nepal, the 12-Day Trea­sures of the Himalaya Ride. (You can also check out Mandil Prad­han’s write-up of our tour on Pink…

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Mountain Biking In Peru: Getting Lost (and Found) in the Sacred Valley

August 14, 2019

When it comes to birth­day cel­e­bra­tions, we don’t think it can get much bet­ter than moun­tain bik­ing in Peru. Read on and get inspired—what will YOU do for your next trip around the sun? (The fol­low­ing post was writ­ten by Randy Barce­na.) I was sit­ting on my par­ents’ couch after…

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Mountain Biking and Heli-Biking in Spain: a Photo Journal

November 28, 2019

Unfor­get­table Moun­tain Bik­ing Expe­ri­ences through Beau­ti­ful Spain Join us on our Pyre­nees & Beyond tour for some unfor­get­table moun­tain bik­ing expe­ri­ences through beau­ti­ful Spain. You’ll ped­al trails that criss­cross over mil­lion-year-old sea beds through aban­doned mid­dle-age vil­lages, across wine regions, and along rocky foothills. Then meet the rugged Pyre­nees to expe­ri­ence heli-access…

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Mountain Biking in the Pyrenees, Spain: History, Heli-Drops, and Heart

October 30, 2019

You prob­a­bly know Spain for the run­ning of the bulls, rich red wine, fla­men­co danc­ing, sun­ny Mediter­ranean beach­es, fas­ci­nat­ing his­to­ry, and foot­ball (that’s soc­cer to Cana­di­ans, eh?). But you should also get to know Spain, and the Span­ish Pyre­nees, as an incred­i­ble place for moun­tain bik­ing. If you dream of…

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