Tag: outdoors
Why do people mountain bike? What are they after? Flow. A sublime state of being that combines levitation with swinging. The closest thing you can get to flying. (Or skiing. Or swimming). Adrenaline. From the physical effort and technical precision required to do a steep, rowdy climb. Or from the 100% concentration needed to solve the continuous stream of problems a natural trail throws at you. Gnarl. That tingling sensation you get in front of a sketchy section of a trail, when you see the line, you kind of know…
Autumn offers the most dramatic landscapes, and the October 2019 three days tour with Ofir was no different. If you add the white of the winter's first snow to the myriad of shades of falling trees you get the ingredients of a beautiful, majestic, but also quite eerie world. No better time to relive those days but during the 2020 Covid-19 epidemic - and lock-down. Here's a gallery of images that, in the present-day context, seem terrifyingly close to an end-of-the-world scenario. One thing's for sure: if the end of…
