We set out on our way after assembling all the gear and stowing our stuff back on the bikes. The hut was looking at us from over our shoulders when we rejoined the dirt road taking us onwards. The weather was offering rain and wind, something we would become more than accustomed to in the coming days.

We made it to a fork in the road, where our actual route was but a faint sliver of a trail, a path onwards in the volcanic sand that would have been impossible to spot if our GPS would not have told us it was there. We consulted our maps and concluded that it looked like the two roads were to reconnect later during the day so we made the decision to stick to the 4x4 trial for now. Far from the best road we had seen but at least a road we actually could see, this made us laugh a bit about the situation as we pedaled on with a good mood.

The road took us through a changing landscape, giving us vulcano sand dunes and minutes later rocky landscape as far as the eye could see. This was however no match for our carbon fiber steeds, our mechanical eternity machine, our Orbea Almas. We had carefully picked out the tires for this trip, the widest we could get on the bikes so that we as best as we could would “float” over the sandy parts and not dig into the dunes when riding across. We also intentionally chose a wheel with thick tirewalls, puncture proof and the biggest threads we could find to make sure that the wheels stayed intact when riding the sharp lava rocks. This also offered the best possible traction on sandy, slippery roads and climbs, something we would see alot alot off.

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