Latest updates
October 2026
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IMPROVEDOctober 2026
Route search
Know the route’s name, or the town it starts from? Type it into the search box on the routes page and jump straight to it.
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NEWOctober 2026
Your personal area
Everything you’ve ridden in one place: points and leaderboard rank, total km and climbing, and medals that unlock along the way, from your first ride to an Everest of climbing. A personal map that colours every route you’ve ridden, a “want to ride” list with a ⭐ on every route, and a message box with the occasional surprise.
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NEWOctober 2026
Mud forecast and a fly-over for every route
Every route now shows a “chance of mud” badge and a mud strip on the elevation profile, based on soil type and last week’s rain. The “Mud forecast” tab shows the full route analysis, and the “3D simulation” tab flies you over the route before you set off. Boaz Yoffe’s tools (mtb.yoffe.net), right inside the site.
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NEWOctober 2026
You’ve earned it
Passed 150 points this year? Check the message box in your personal area. A special SWIFT sunglasses coupon is waiting there, only for riders who earned it.
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NEWOctober 2026
12 new routes
From the craters of the Negev Highlands and the Judean Desert, via Tzofar to Eilat, all the way to the Galilee, the Golan and Mount Hermon. 12 new routes planned by Itay HaLevi, from short two-day loops to a mountain journey with about 5,600 m of climbing.
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NEWOctober 2026
Photos from the trail, by you
Ridden a route? Upload your photos and, once approved, they’ll appear on the route page with your name. Every approved photo adds 5 points to the leaderboard. You can also share your bike setup on the community ideas page.
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IMPROVEDOctober 2026
The new planning page: seven stations
From the idea to setting off: when to ride, where to go, loading a route onto your device, where to sleep, water and food, safety, and getting there and back by train, bus or shuttle. And alongside the stations, a toolbox for the road: emergency numbers, trail angels, apps, campsites and a glossary.
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IMPROVEDOctober 2026
Every route on one map
The routes page now opens on a map of the whole country, with filters for region, length and difficulty. Tap a route to see its details, and share a direct link to it on the map.
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NEWOctober 2026
The site in English
The whole site is now available in English too, for riders from abroad who want to discover bikepacking in Israel. Look for the English button at the top of every page.
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NEWOctober 2026
The ultra race guide
How to train for a race of hundreds of kilometres, what to pack, how to eat, drink and sleep, and what to do when everything goes wrong. The guide is built on two Zoom sessions with ultra rider Hanoch Redlich, and every tip links to the exact moment in the video.
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IMPROVEDOctober 2026
The new gear page: the beginner path
You don’t have to buy it all. Go through 10 stops, from your bike and bags, through sleeping outdoors, lights and navigation, to a ready pack list. The page remembers which stops you’ve visited, and at the end there’s the gear list and gear rental.
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NEWSeptember 2026 · Updated: October 2026
What have you ridden? A community leaderboard
Discover, Sluggers, The Longest Day, Special, Bikepacking for Beginners, and every route on the routes page: tick what you rode, and every kilometre and metre of climbing turns into points. Rode the same route in an event too? You get the higher of the two, never both. 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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NEWSeptember 2026 · Updated: October 2026
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. Every story is now saved in your personal area, so you can come back to it and download the files any time (sign-in required).
Plan your trip →
September 2026
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NEWSeptember 2026
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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NEWSeptember 2026
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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NEWSeptember 2026
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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NEWSeptember 2026
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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NEWSeptember 2026
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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NEWSeptember 2026
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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IMPROVEDSeptember 2026
"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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IMPROVEDSeptember 2026
Easy routes in one link
You can share a link that opens the routes page already filtered to easy routes.
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IMPROVEDSeptember 2026
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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IMPROVEDSeptember 2026
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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IMPROVEDSeptember 2026
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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IMPROVEDSeptember 2026
Photo galleries on routes
31 routes now have photos from the trail below the elevation profile, with tap to zoom.
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IMPROVEDSeptember 2026
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
The new site went live on 26 September 2026, replacing the old Wix site.
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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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