"Tour de Belize" Mountain Bike Race, Cayo Mountains, Belize

The PERPETUAL ANNUAL TROPHY has been
donated by the Auxillou Family and will be
called the AUXILLOU CHALLENGE TROPHY. This
race has been a dream for at least four years
by the Auxillou family and 2006 is the year we
make it a reality.

Other trophies will be available for first,
second and third winners overall. We are
looking for donors to offer the cost of other
trophies and prizes.

You can telephone Ray Auxillou in Miami at
305 685 9752, or in Hillview at Falconview
Back Pack Adventure Hostel at: 663 5580.

Welcome to the website of the FIRST ANNUAL EVENT for the "TOUR
de BELIZE ALPS", a Mountain Bike Race through the fantastic
remote scenery of the Belize Alps. The first race will be held in
August, 2006.

Belize has many bicycle races. Most of which are on paved roads.
This one is to the remote Belize Alps and is over dirt logging roads.
The only people up in the Belize Alps are British Army Commandos
and SAS jungle training soldiers who fly in from England to train here.

The race is a 3 day event and you will camp when you finish each
leg. There are no facilities at the end of the first leg to the Sibun
Gorge headwaters. So each bike rider must be self sufficient. Either
carrying your supplies with you, or by a vehicle trailing the pack.
The first leg rises from the start at the suburb of Hillview in the Cayo
District of Belize in the foothills, at about 400 feet elevation to 3200
feet at the highest point in the Alps. The distance of each leg is
roughly 30 miles. The road up is called Cooma Cairn Road and
passes by the entrance to the 1600 ft Hidden Vally FALLS, that
drops into the Roaring Creek Gorge.

The second leg is downhill, along the Brunton Trail to the Forestry
village in the foothills around 800 ft elevation. Brunton Trail is very
scenic. There is a government Forestry campground, with water
and a small country store for supplies here. There is also the famous
Rio Frio Cave a mile away and the Rio On rapids for swimming 2
miles the other way.

The third leg is return to Hillview, half of the distance being a
repeat of the outbound leg through the small community of San
Antonio town.

There are many logging roads up here. The main junctions will be
placarded, but all logging roads lead upward to the First Stage
camping area

Racing through the Belize Alps is more rugged than the regular bicycle club races.
Altitude and rough logging roads require mountain bikes.
The Auxillou Family are sponsoring the perpetual annual trophy and other sponsors
can sponsor station prizes and leg trophies.
To contact send an e-mail to hillviewhacienda@yahoo.com
Or phone
FALCONVIEW BACK PACK ADVENTURE HOSTEL
in Hillview, Cayo
where the race will start and finish. tel: 663 5580

Other Website Links:
http://folkmusicfl.tripod.com/mountainbikerace
http://falconview0.tripod.com/