Covers trips within your country of residence, trips within country of residence must be pre-booked and for a minimum of 2 nights away. You will be covered for the above selected sport plus any sports in sports group 1, 2 and 3. All sports include cover for competition unless otherwise stated. I have travel insurance, I just need a bolt-on to cover my sport whilst I’m on my trip abroad. Our Sports Accident Insurance is designed to protect you for Mountain Biking in the UK. Our policy provides personal accident, and if selected, can include additional Income Protection.

With mountain biking travel insurance from Snowcard, you can enjoy your adventure with peace of mind and security that the UK’s longest established specialist provider of mountain bike holiday insurance insures you. Take advantage of our downhill mountain bike insurance if you plan to do downhill mountain biking whilst on a trip. Our downhill mountain bike holiday insurance will cover you if the worst happens.

Fast, efficient and responsive, the new Scott Spark RC is an outstanding XC race bike. With 120mm of travel, it has the suspension to tackle the toughest courses, but reserves a sharpness to its pedaling response that won’t leave you languishing in the finish-line sprint. It’s stiff too, so if you’re not under 65kg dripping wet, you’ll still have the confidence to charge hard. Scott has missed a trick with it’s TwinLoc remote though, as we think the Spark RC would be even faster if the suspension was a touch more active in the 120mm Descend mode. Even so, this is a scorchingly fast XC bike with a helluva pedigree that can still hold its own in the right hands against most modern trail bikes on gnarlier terrain.

The ultimate guide to Morocco: a twoweek trip from the Sahara to Marrakesh

Suitable for all camera owners, the trip roams from multicoloured spice stalls in Marrakesh’s dense medina to the sun-baked kasbah of Ait Ben Haddou and the fortified fishing port of Essaouira. But for me the stars of the show were always the people. As tourism returns, a more sustainable, empowering path feels possible for communities in Morocco. That night we stayed on the edge of the Ouarzazate desert in a luxury Arabian Nights-style riad, built in the style of a ksar and grafted onto an ancient turreted ruin. We spent an afternoon at a delightful rural cooking school that’s training girls from the surrounding villages to teach, grow vegetables, and make cheese and bread. And in the belly of Marrakesh’s medina we met local artisans who are breathing new life into traditional crafts such as embroidery, to help broker incomes for disadvantaged communities.

  • No, if the UK is put in ‘Lockdown’ once again, there will be no coverage under the insurance for cancellation claims.
  • However, post Brexit, this does not apply to UK residents now that we are non-EU residents.
  • This depends on time of day, weather conditions, the week in the season and of course, traffic flow (not relevant to helicopter travel!).
  • Rest and reinvigorate at a carefully-selected hotel or guest house, where your baggage will be waiting.
  • Once again the fork travel may step over the down-country lines, but seeing as we only measured the rear travel at 116mm, we’re calling it quits.
  • The food is excellent and necessarily plentiful for hungry walkers.

Take the first 2 to 3 days to acclimatise to being at altitudes below 2500m before going any higher. Join the Workaway community today to unlock unique travel experiences with over 50,000 opportunities around the globe. • Help with the development judyready.com of a community tourism project in the indigenous village Shalala next to Quilotoa Loop. Para eso seria importante hablar un espanol mas o menos bueno porque hay que conversar bastante con la gente local que no sabe mucho ingles.

Shipton liked as any other to reach the top of a mountain but even more the poetry of mountain landscape and of untrodden country. At altitude the air pressure is lower and this means there is less oxygen available to your body when you breath. The process of your body adapting to the lower oxygen levels is called acclimatisation and it takes about 3 to 5 days. If your body does not get enough time to acclimatise to being at high altitude, you can develop altitude sickness . Altitude sickness usually happens at levels above 2,500m.

Alpine Adventure

Every member of our enquiries team has lived and walked in one or more of our destinations. We guarantee they will make your booking experience a reassuring pleasure. As I neared the end of the books I felt pangs of sadness, as I wanted to much to share more of his adventures and brilliant story telling. I have read many books, and seen documentaries, on Travel and Climbing – both humorous and nail biting but none, NONE can compare to this great work. Tilman’s belief was “any worthwhile expedition can be planned on the back of an envelope.” He wrote fifteen mountaineering and sailing books.

For this, you can purchase our bundled home and bike insurance, or we offer a no strings attached rolling monthly cycle insurance. We cover all forms of mountain biking as standard including downhill and enduro, and essential mountain biking cover such as mountain rescue if you are severely injured on a trail. There are considerable high risks with mountain biking including collisions, crashes and accidents.

Mountain Biking Insurance

At Albertville join the N90 to Moutiers then the D902 to Bourg St Maurice. At Bourg you will find signs to Val d’Isere, which is about 40 minutes up the mountain from Bourg. The address for your GPS to get to Val d’Isere is postcode and our office is on Route de Coin. GPS and road finder routes often give this as an option. Please note that cars hired with a Swiss registration cannot be taken into France by an EU National. Therefore it is important that when booking a hire car from the Swiss side, any EU Nationalsshould notify the rental firm that you will be driving in France and are therefore supplied with a French registered car.