COPPER CANYON MTB

Date: October 2012 new!
Duration: 7 days
Groups: 12 people

Day 1 -Chihuahua/Basaseachic

Pick you up at the airport, hotel , or bus terminal and transfer to Basaseachic on the way we visit the Mennonite colonies and have lunch with them, continue on to our hotel in Basaseachic where we sleep in the hotel.

08:00hrs Breakfast, and of we go to Cajuarichi on a 25 km. single track through a pine oak forest at 2400mts altitude. Cajuarichi is a very little mountain town with a s chool and a XVII church, we have a pre lunch here and continue on to Aguatechi (22km.)which is even smaller where we have a proper lunch and take a rest. Some time later, when ready, we go on to the beautiful valley of Otachique (7km). the valley is surrounded by these great rock walls of different hues of yellow and red color, if you still have the energy we can take a tour ( 1:30hrs trek) of a view of the Charuyvo Canyon which is great. Of course we check into the Hostel there, see how we are doing with our gear, have dinner and go to sleep.

08:00 hrs. we eat breakfast, and start what will be a tremendous day, we are going to be pedaling in the beautiful valley of Otachique with its multicolored rock walls out unimaginable forms, if you still have the energy we can pedal ( 1:30hrs) up the Mesa and have a view of the Charuyvo Canyon which is great, have lunch on the way, come back for dinner and sleep in the hostel at Otachique.

08:00hrs. Breakfasts, This is the beginning of a fantastic day, for today we will do what cyclist like to do best and that is to cycle down hill, we start at 2400mts. with 27km of mostly down to the old mining town of Uruachi at 1500mts. here we eat an almost lunch and who ever is hungry enough can go ahead and eat his full lunch after which we start a 24km. downhill in the impressive Oteros Canyon, as soon as we hit bottom we take a swim in the river and start to make camp at 600mts above sea level. La finca is a very small village or a sort of big ranch, it depends on how you look at it. is full of orange and guayabos orchards and the climate of course is tropical, very nice.

006:30 hrs. coffee, chocolate, tea, and we leave as soon as possible, so we do not get caught going up by the full force of the sun. Climbing from 600mts to 2500mts in about 16km of mexican mountain road, can get intense (if you get tired you can hitch a ride on the support vehicle) but on the other hand, one can use this slow pace climb to enjoy the view of the immense Oteros Canyon, and to watch how little by little the cardons, brazil trees and pitahyas transform into madrons and oak trees, to finally turn into white firs, lumholztiis and Ayachuite pines trees, with the magpie jays becoming, blue jays of different kinds as the parrots and macaws transmute into trogons and tiny warblers or painted red starts, which is to say the least, amazing! Once on top we really enjoy our breakfast take a break and go on the the Rocoroyvo water falls where we eat a well deserved lunch we continue at 2500mts give and take a little until we get to La Parida (25 km.) and make camp, dinner and happy dreams of her Majesty the Sierra Tarahumara.

08:00hrs. Breakfast, and on we go like a ranch horse smelling his hay or a hound sensing its prey or any way we are almost there and we feel it. we are rolling on high mesas as we stop in Monterde a mountain lumber town to eat lunch and start going a little down when we hit San Rafael old railway station and on to Divisadero on the edge of the Copper Canyon. Here we take a view of the canyon and keep going to Creel where we eat dinner and sleep in the Cueva del Leon hostel.

Day 7 -Creel/Chihuahua

09:00hrs breakfast, 2 free hrs to shop and give you a chance to say goodbye to the Tarahumara Sierra and on we go back to Chiuhuahua and your planned late afternoon departures.