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Published: August 18th 2008
Well I finally finished my mt. biking trip through Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and while it was a very tough trip, it was one of the best trips I’ve ever done. I really had a great time! I hadn’t biked much in the past couple of years so I was not in biking shape at all and the first 5 days were really hard on me as they were all long hard rides that allowed no time for recovery. Luckily days 6 and 7 were heli-biking days which gave me the opportunity to recuperate a little! We actually went up in this big old soviet helicopter and got dropped off about 6000’ above our base camp and then blasted back down!
This is a group photo of everyone on the trip. The only thing you need to know is that while we covered over 550km on our bikes, climbing in excess of 40,000 vertical feet, and trudging over two passes above 12,000 feet- everyone of these people kicked my ass up every hill!
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Gigi Ling
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What an exciting trip!! I bet it hurts after the long ride. And I like the helicopter part, i have never been on one!