TRAINING DAY, AZORES

Join Enduro rippers Damien Oton and Theo Galy on a preseason training mission in Portugals paradisiacal Azores region. Fifteen hundred kilometers from mainland Europe, the nine islands of the Azores spring from the Atlantic, forming a volcanic archipelago covered in lush forest and featuring fast, flowing descents. Oton and Galy charge singletrack mainstays such as The Cathedral, with looks over the left shoulder into a yawning lagoon, rip ancient fishermens trails, and explore cu