HOLLOW BE THY NAME
Editor’s Note: Trek gave Bike the opportunity to experience the Full Stache firsthand in Argentina’s Puna de Atacama region, emulating the rugged high-alpine environment where it was designed to excel.
IT TOOK US THREE FULL DAYS TO GET HERE. NONSTOP TRAVEL. I’M tired and the riding hasn’t even begun. Now I’m watching the altimeter of our guide’s GPS spin like the reels of an old gas pump. Three thousand eight hundred; 3,850; 3,900; now … wait for it … 4,000. Four thousand fifty; 4,075. The diesel burbles to a stop on a rise. Four thousand one hundred sixteen meters. Thirteen thousand five hundred feet. Our starting point. I creak open the door and am blasted by a gust. My head swims in heat, stifled.
The landscape has the eerie haunt of Highway
