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With the trails aboveground too wet to ride, these mountain bikers head underground into an abandoned mine! Great photos and more info (in French) here.

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At a snail’s pace, my legs burning, I climbed the last mile to the top of the Grand Col du Ferret.  Wiping sleet and mud from my eyes, I wondered why we hadn’t picked a more traditional honeymoon.  At that very moment, I could have been reading a book on a Tahitian beach or drinking …

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Josh Lowe shreds Champery, France in December–in conditions that are almost too dry and too dusty to mountain bike in… and they were expecting to ski by then! While Champery has received some snow since then, it was a slow, slow start to the ski season… or a long end to the mountain bike season, depending on how you look …

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Confession time: when I was en-route to Europe for a three-week tour of as many of the best mountain bike trails as I could fit in, I considered my first week-long stop in the Pyrenees mountain range, which forms the border between France and Spain (with Andorra sandwiched in between) a preview, an appetizer to the main …

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