So the title pretty much says it all. Not sure if you´ve heard of death road before but it is, literally, death road. We got up fairly early in the am and took the bus for about an hour into the hills, and we were greated with a spectacular day. The tour set me back $40u.s. but was well worth it. The company supplied bikes, helmats, pants, coat, lunch, transportation and first-aid. The beginning was a little chilly but I adjusted quickly and it wasn´t long before I was sweating up the hills. We started at La Cumbre and the first 10kms was on pavement and mostly down hill it took us just about an hour to get to the start of the trail. Trail isn´t really the right word for it. It used to be
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