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<\/a><\/p>\nDarol and Christian at the Matebele Cafe. \/\/ Photo: Jacques Marais.<\/span><\/p>\n Surprisingly, natural track is pretty hard to come by these days, everywhere we ride purpose built track with bridges, wooden berms, concrete steps and rocks that have been shipped across the country to create a rock garden. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love these purpose built tracks. I just have a great affinity for the natural riding that I have feely available on my doorstep in Lesotho.<\/p>\n Riders Charles Stein and Brian Bontekoning during the Lesotho Sky 2014. \/\/ Photo: Cherie Vale.<\/span><\/p>\n No signs or popular line choice to follow, no specific way to ride, no Strava segment to beat\u2026 It\u2019s just you, your bike, the terrain, your own individual riding style and creativity that puts together the most beautiful sense of flow. If you have ridden the single track in Lesotho, the Wild Coast or in the Scottish Highlands you will understand. It is rugged and real mountain biking that will leave you day dreaming for hours\u2026I liken it to surfing, as I very rarely ride the same piece of trail. It changes all the time, just as every wave you stand up on presents a new canvas, each with its own eccentricities that make each wave and each piece of trail unique.<\/p>\n So these endless foot and cattle paths, carved through the Maluti Mountains by decades of people and their livestock moving from place to place, become a release of creativity and flow as your tyres choose their own unique way of painting with the hips, bumps, rocks and jumps scattered across the Mountain Kingdom.<\/p>\n Darol doing route briefing with ER24. \/\/ Photo: Cherie Vale.<\/span><\/p>\n The few people that ride the Lesotho Sky every year get to ride the best of it, day after day, for 6 days on the trot. Four years of scouting and grooming. The route for the 2015 Lesotho Sky is going to be the best blank canvas I have ever presented to the lucky few riding the event.<\/p>\n Riding here is infectious. The only problem with coming to ride in Lesotho is that no other riding you do anywhere else will live up to it. Leaving you disappointed, unless of course you training for the next Lesotho Sky (after all, it is infectious).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n