Riding the Spine

La Finca Villa Alicia

El Niagara

El Niagara

Enjoying the scenery

Roberto and Sean wandering along the river

Bright yellow flowers

Another Waterfall in the distance

Coffee being processed

Processing Coffee

Coffee Being Processed

Yep..Coffee being processed.

Mountains of Coffee

Workers Processing the Coffee

Resting at a coffee farm

Jacob´s bike enjoying the view

Muddy trails.

Dude, where´s the trail?

Dangerous muddy, mossy steps

At the Edge of a 70 foot cliff

Playing chicken with a chicken bus along a dirt road headed to aguas thermales.

Heading to our campsite alter soaking in hot springs.

Crossing a river befote it plunges down the rocks."

Beginning of a long, grueling climb up the volcano

Rising above the clouds…starting to get steep.

Above the clouds….now is very steep.

Deep grooves mark a narrow singletrack.

So close…yet so far UP.

A tedious ascent across a steep meadow recovering from a fire

A tedious ascent up a STEEPER meadow..

At the first saddle.

Singletrack through the pines at high elevation.

Resembling the volcano

Climbing the ridge to another saddle

A beast of burden on this rocky trail.

Looking slick.

Sean hiking down the ridge of the volcano.

Serenading Surly´s Big Dummy

Sunrise at around 13,000 feet

Jacob´s mohawk getting in the view.

Shining bright for a nice ride down the volcano.

Jacob´s bike enjoying the view.

Yes….melodramatic…but obligatory given the circumstances

After getting these bikes up to 13,845 feet it wasn´t easy lifting overhead

Jacob, his bike, Tajumulco and it´s shadow…and another volcano.

Nice view of the bike, eh?."

What´s a bike doing at the peak of a volcano crater?

Jacob´s bike gets to enjoy the view as well.

It´s true....his bike is a little vain...certainly not camera shy

One last shot before descending the 13,845 foot monster volcano.

Hoping his brakes work."

Camping on the saddle in comfort

Difficult to capture the magnitude of this vista with a photo.

Jacob´s home has a nice view this morning

Hard not to find a nice campsite when all you need is a couple of trees

10 second self timer portrait before completing the descent of Tajumulco."

Sean shredding down Tajumulco

Enjoying the Guatemalan bike touring.

Smooth flowy singletrack section with an unbeatable view

Shredding through a narrow channel

Bombing downhill...not looking back

That was fun....Can we do it again?

300 Feet Deep

Clouds at our feet

Believe it or not, we had to drag our bikes from the base of that valley to where the bike stands

Clouds at our feet

Beautiful flowering designs for a celebration.

This is our turn

A veritable wall

Possibly the first gringos these villagers have seen

And yes, it is much steeper than it looks

And yes, it is much steeper than it looks

A grueling 3 plus hour ride.

Clouds at our feet

Into the Vortex we go

Back road through miles of coffee farms

Enjoying the view we would soon have to ride over

Human rights workers we spent a few days with

Little village up in the mountains

Little village up in the mountains

Simple home in the mountains

Steep, clifflined muddy walking trail dropping thousands of feet to the river...before going right back up.

Rickety ol´bridge crossing the river

Carefully crossing the bridge

Watching the river float on by

Out in the middle of nowhere

Outskirts of an indian village

Waterfalls at the exit of the underground river

Egg Shaped mountains

Limestone Deposits form a series of waterfalls

Birds Eye view of the natural wonder

Cliff lined waterway with beautiful swimmin holes and jumping rocks

Ran over with a car and did not rupture

Un quetzal, meester

Beautiful trails through the mountains

Birds Eye view of the natural wonder