trailAddiction in the Sierra Nevada

Ali and I, plus Melissa and a bunch of "the lads" hit the Granada side of the Sierra Nevada this weekend just gone (some of us were there 4 days, some of us 5). It was my first time down there and I must say I'm massively impressed. What really got me was the variety of terrain... e.g. one minute riding across moorland akin to something in Northern England, the next minute through barren shrubland as if in the Middle East.

The general riding style is, I guess, what you'd class as "enduro" or "all mountain" these days: a morning uplift to access the tops of the fantastic trails, followed by making the most of the "free altitude gain" during the course of day-long predominantly descending XC rides.