GUATEMALA GRAVITY
Clinic with Ryan Rodriguez
Jumps, Tech & Steeps

Your Guatemala Gravity Bike Clinic starts today! Our 2Wheel team will pick you up from the airport, help you get accommodated in our Antigua hotel, then give you some time to relax before we have a brief orientation and a great first night in Guatemala.

Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua

Meals Included:  None

Our first day in Guatemala Gravity Bike Clinic will be spent at the La Carmona mountain bike park, which is a coffee plantation with over 50 kms of flowing, rolling, blow your mind purpose built single-track bliss! It is also home to Guatemala’s very own jump park. Need we say more? . . . La carmona is the only trail of its kind here in Guatemala and the top of the trail network is at 2,500 mts (8,500 ft.), which we’ll climb via 4×4 shuttle and then drop into the beginning of an unreal ride down

After our first downhill ride/ warmup, we will have lunch and then start our Jumping Clinic. We will then Send the afternoon until the sunset. We’ll have a picnic lunch out at El Zur and head back to Antigua for a group dinner.

Distance 20 km / 12 miles

Max Elevation 2,500 m / 7,800 ft

Ascent 250 m / 800 ft

Descent 1,700 m / 5,000 ft

Accommodation Hotel in Antigua

Meals Included B, L, Snacks

Distance:  20 km / 12 miles

Max Elevation:  2,500 m / 7,800 ft

Ascent:  250 m / 800 ft

Descent:  1,700 m / 5,000 ft

Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua

Meals Included:  B, L, Snacks

Today’s we will be going back to La Carmona to spend the whole day jumping, cornering and mastering our skills.. Today will be fully dedicated to learning how to jump tables, hips, drops, and doubles.

Distance:  20 km / 12 miles

Max Elevation:  2,500 m / 7,800 ft

Ascent:  250 m / 800 ft

Descent:  1,700 m / 5,000 ft

Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua

Meals Included:  B, L, Snacks

The name says it all: “La Infinta” and the downhills does seem to go on forever. The ride starts up in a region locally referred to as Alaska. This plateau separates the Lake Atitlan region from the rest of the western highlands. Views abound up at ~3,400 m with the entire Guatemalan Ring of Fire off to either side. The ride plummets nearly 2,300 m on a wicked fun mix of terrain. After our shuttle out from the bottom on the backside of the lake we will finish the epic day with one more 400 m drop down to the lakeshore.

Tonight we spent the first of two nights at Guatemala’s most magical hotel, La Casa del Mundo, perched on a secluded cliff along Lake Atitlan.

Distance 20 km / 12 miles

Max Elevation 3,400 m / 10,000 ft

Ascent 270 m / 900 ft

Descent 2,700 m / 9,000 ft

Accommodation La Casa del Mundo, Lake Atitlan

Meals Included B, L, D, Snacks

Today, choose your own adventure! Rent kayaks or paddle boards, hike to a neighboring town, swim in one of the watering holes, chill in a hammock amongst La Casa’s lush gardens, or book some relaxing time in lakefront wood-fired hot tub.

Accommodation La Casa del Mundo, Lake Atitlan

Meals Included B, D, Snacks

Our first shuttle takes us up high above the lake to nearly 3,000 m give us views of the canyons and volcanoes around.

We will climb 5 kms on trail and the Atitlan slickrock to an area known as ‘El Corazón de las Nubes’, a Mayan Ceremonial site AND home to a unique mix of alpine grass, grazing sheep, and agave plants.

We will follow rocky, technical singletrack through pine forests passing through small Mayan communities.

After a picnic lunch and short shuttle we will continue our descent to Lake Atitlán in a 1,000 m downhill.

At the end of the Slickrock ride there is another sweet drop only minutes from the trailhead.

Distance*: 28 km / 17 miles

Max Elevation*: 2,895 m / 9,500 ft

Ascent*: 300 m / 990 ft

Descent*: 1,700 m / 5,200 ft

Accommodation: Hotel Regis, Panajachel

Meals Included: B, L, Snacks

Two amazing shuttle runs on the eastern rim of Lake Atitlan! Both feature centuries old Mayan trade routes that once connected two of the major Atitlan villages with those of the eastern part of the country. La Santa Cat as it is known because it finishes in the village of Santa Catarina Palopo contours above the lake before it plummets down an a twisty urban staircase to the lake. The San Antonia Maya trail is arguably the oldest of all the footpaths into the Atitlan basin. It is also one of the most technical. Centuries of foot traffic have worn steps into the rock creating an almost Inca trail feel as you drop 400+ meters to the lake.

Distance:  28 km / 17 miles

Max Elevation:  2,895 m / 9,500 ft

Ascent:  300 m / 990 ft

Descent:  1,700 m / 5,200 ft

Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua

Meals Included:  B, L, Snacks

Today we will back our things and back up the car and drive back to the beautiful town of Antigua where we started our journey. We arrive at Tecpan Ruins and tour the ruins for about 2 hours before we have lunch.

Distance:  28 km / 17 miles

Max Elevation:  2,895 m / 9,500 ft

Ascent:  300 m / 990 ft

Descent:  1,700 m / 5,200 ft

Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua

Meals Included:  B, L, Snacks

For our final day of in Antigua we will be heading back to the infamous coffee farm La Carmona for another day of epic biking. For dinner we will have a farewell dinner with the whole crew!

Distance 20 km /13 miles

Max Elevation 2,552 m / 8,373 ft

Descent 1,500 m / 4,600 ft

Ascent 1,000 m / 3,300 ft

Accommodation Hotel in Antigua

Meals Included B, L, Snacks

Today we will look back on our incredible Guatemala Gravity MTB clinic, do some last minute shopping around Antigua, and get your bikes packed up and ready to go home. Our 2Wheel team will take you to the airport and say goodbye until your next 2Wheel Epix Trip!

Meals Included:  B