This is simply a list of gear that we carried on our Puna 9 trip, biking to and climbing 9 of the highest mountains in the Andes. Note that when we are just cycling in the high Andes we carry…
Puna 9: Food
Food has played an essential part in this trip. On our first trip to the Puna we didn’t put much thought into it beforehand and ended up eating mush for weeks. This was incredibly bad for our (well, mostly Haz’s)…
Puna 9: Part 4b – Bonete and Veladero
As the condor glides it’s 30km between Pissis and Bonete, the Andes’ third and fourth highest peaks. By road it’s more like 600km. But one of the advantages of the easy angled, rolling Puna is that it’s possible to pick…
Because it’s there: Cycling Uturuncu
There’s nothing we find quite so irresistible as a high Andean road. Add in the possibility of continuing on foot to a 6000m summit and it’ll soon weasel its way onto our ‘To Do’ list. Which is why we’ve had…
Back in Bumpy old Bolivia
This wasn’t our first visit to Bolivia’s inhospitable Sud Lipez region. As true Gringo Trailers eleven years ago we zoomed through on a four day jeep tour. Then, in 2010, we pedalled through with a sense of awe. The ‘Lagunas’…