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What have you ridden? A community leaderboard
Discover, Sluggers, The Longest Day, Special, Bikepacking for Beginners: how many have you done? Tick every edition and race you rode, and every kilometre and metre of climbing turns into points. Discover and Sluggers finishers whose name is on the finishers list get ✓ Verified finisher. Then all that’s left is to see who’s leading this year, and who’s leading all time.
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Community tips on every route
A tap that works by the cemetery, a grocery that opens at 6 am, a descent full of rocks after the winter: the small things no map shows. Every route on the site now collects tips from riders who were there, by topic: water and food, places to sleep, safety, route changes and more. You can mark whether a tip is still true, and every approved tip earns 3 points on the leaderboard.
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A personal route story for CrossLand Galilee Golan
Choose how many days to ride, where to start, which way and where to sleep, and get a day-by-day plan with places to stay, water and points of interest, plus a route story written just for you. You can download a GPX file for each day, with every waypoint along the way.
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Speak Bikepacking: the glossary
All the words thrown around the campfire, from zula to tubeless, on cards that flip. There’s also a short quiz, a "surprise me" button, and pop-up definitions on terms across the site’s guides.
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Bikepacking for Beginners
A new page for our free weekend with Trek Israel: all the first-time fears, how the weekend works, what to bring, the podcast interview, and how we grew from 35 to 170 riders.
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When to ride?
A colourful year calendar showing where it’s best to ride each month, in the north, the center, the Negev and the Arava, and which events happen each season.
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Where to sleep, light a fire and ride
All the rules in one place: free and paid campsites, fires, firing zones and leave no trace, with a short checklist before you go.
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Which bike do you need?
A guide to choosing and preparing your bike: bike types, tires, bars, gearing and mounts, plus a checklist before the trip.
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"First time?" on the home page
Four simple steps to your first weekend out there, and one sentence explaining what bikepacking actually is.
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Easy routes in one link
You can share a link that opens the routes page already filtered to easy routes.
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Emergency numbers, trail angels and apps in Hebrew
The key planning pages are now in Hebrew and English, including ranger and rescue numbers by region and the list of angels with filters.
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Every planning article in place
Tips, nutrition, safety, photography, the files guide and shuttles: every article now opens with its own content.
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Consistent numbers across the site
The length and climbing of the Discover Israel Trail, the race and Sluggers 400 were recalculated from the GPX files and now match on every page.
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Photo galleries on routes
31 routes now have photos from the trail below the elevation profile, with tap to zoom.
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The site on your phone, even without signal
You can add the site to your home screen like an app. Pages you’ve already opened, like routes and campsites, stay available when there’s no signal out there.
The new site: what we built from scratch
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The routes page
An interactive map of every route, filters by region, length, difficulty and route type, and for each route an elevation profile, stats and GPX download, including a Garmin version.
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Discover Israel Race
The new race page: a countdown, MTB and gravel maps, ten legs with a GPX file for each, the participants list, and getting there and back.
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Discover Israel Trail
The full trail guide: an interactive elevation profile, the nine extensions with GPX files, and a guide in sections with info, food and water, and media.
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CrossLand
Pages for the Galilee Golan and Dead Sea & Craters journeys: the route on a map, points of interest, guides, shops, places to stay and FAQ.
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The events calendar
All community events in one place, by month. For some you sign up right on the site, for others through the event’s group or form.
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Your gear list
An interactive list you tick off as you pack. Your ticks are saved, and you can download the list as a PDF.
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The campsite map
Every night campsite in Israel, free and up to ₪100, on one map, with a form to tell us about a closed or new campsite.
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Shuttles by region
A list of drivers who take riders and bikes, filtered by region, with tap-to-call.
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Hall of Fame and rider stories
Everyone who finished Discover Israel, and stories from the trail by riders who did it.
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Community offers
Discounts from the companies riding with us, with a discount code you copy in one tap.
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Inspiration
Bikepacking films, stories and blogs from around the world, and a photo gallery from the community.
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WHERE IT STARTED
The site moved to a new home
A new design, fast and phone-friendly, with full Hebrew and English support. All the old links still work and lead to the right page.
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Found a mistake, or have an idea for the next page? Tell us in the community.
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