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Alan McWilliams

E-MTB rider based in Western Crete, documenting off-road routes across mountain, rural, and historic terrain.

Routes are personally ridden and field-verified, recorded with GPX data, clear grading, terrain notes, and surface accuracy. The emphasis is on rideability, access, and realistic conditions rather than headline distance or speed.
Many routes follow older paths, resistance landscapes, battlefield ground, and working rural or sacred sites. Historical context is included only where it arises directly from the ground being ridden, with attention to place-names and land use over time.


Off-road riding in Crete involves linking existing tracks, older paths, and rural access routes with short road sections, reflecting the absence of a way-marked E-MTB trail network and the terrain’s settlement-based structure.
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var på mountainbike

8. oktober 2026 kl. 06:54

Morning Ride

Tid

1h54m

Afstand

18,5km

Hastighed

17,2km/h

Stigning

420m

Nedstigning

420m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

6. oktober 2026 kl. 06:25

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Tid

3h15m

Afstand

31,0km

Hastighed

15,6km/h

Stigning

680m

Nedstigning

690m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

5. oktober 2026 kl. 06:48

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Tid

0h42m

Afstand

10,6km

Hastighed

18,9km/h

Stigning

260m

Nedstigning

260m

var på mountainbike

24. september 2026 kl. 05:02

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Tid

3h11m

Afstand

36,3km

Hastighed

17,8km/h

Stigning

680m

Nedstigning

690m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

22. september 2026 kl. 04:53

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Tid

3h15m

Afstand

28,9km

Hastighed

14,6km/h

Stigning

610m

Nedstigning

610m

, og kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

20. september 2026 kl. 05:02

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Tid

4h07m

Afstand

42,4km

Hastighed

16,0km/h

Stigning

890m

Nedstigning

890m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

13. september 2026 kl. 05:01

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Tid

2h42m

Afstand

27,6km

Hastighed

15,1km/h

Stigning

610m

Nedstigning

620m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

10. september 2026 kl. 04:56

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Tid

3h16m

Afstand

38,4km

Hastighed

15,6km/h

Stigning

820m

Nedstigning

830m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

8. september 2026 kl. 05:07

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Tid

2h53m

Afstand

27,5km

Hastighed

16,8km/h

Stigning

550m

Nedstigning

550m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

6. september 2026 kl. 06:24

The Descent and the Twenty-Seven Bends

The way down lay in full view and told us almost nothing. It was only a pale thread scratched across the limestone, appearing on one shoulder of the mountain and vanishing behind the next. Far below, the Frangokastello plain spread beside the Libyan Sea, green and geometrical where the high…

Tid

3h45m

Afstand

27,9km

Hastighed

11,7km/h

Stigning

980m

Nedstigning

980m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

3. september 2026 kl. 04:54

The Wells at Kefalas

There are places I have ridden through so many times that I have stopped really looking at them. Kefalas is one of them.

On this morning's ride I stopped in the village square beside the church, where a small group of old wells sits among the stone paving and trees.…

Tid

2h56m

Afstand

30,9km

Hastighed

17,6km/h

Stigning

620m

Nedstigning

620m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

1. september 2026 kl. 04:59

Reading the Landscape - Part 5: The Koules

Tid

3h24m

Afstand

37,2km

Hastighed

15,1km/h

Stigning

830m

Nedstigning

840m

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30. august 2026 kl. 04:55

Reading the Landscape - Part 4: Phrygana

The Cretan Landscape in Summer

The previous rides in Reading the Landscape had taken me to the salt pans beside the sea, into the limestone country of Apokoronas, and then to water — or, more accurately, to the evidence left by water in a landscape which for much of the…

Tid

4h37m

Afstand

37,0km

Hastighed

15,2km/h

Stigning

780m

Nedstigning

780m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

11. august 2026 kl. 05:04

Reading the Landscape - Part 3: Water

Reading a Dry Watercourse in the Limestone of Apokoronas

The first two rides in Reading the Landscape began with things that were immediately visible.

The salt pans were cut into the coastal rock beside the sea. Stone was everywhere across the limestone country of Apokoronas.

Today was different.

The subject…

Tid

2h42m

Afstand

26,1km

Hastighed

16,7km/h

Stigning

600m

Nedstigning

600m

, og andre kan lide dette.

var på mountainbike

9. august 2026 kl. 04:58

Reading the Landscape - Part 2: Stone

Limestone and the Karst Landscape of Apokoronas

The first ride in Reading the Landscape took me down to the coast and the salt pans cut into the rock beside the sea. Today the route went in the opposite direction, away from the coast and into the broken limestone country of…

Tid

3h04m

Afstand

33,5km

Hastighed

16,4km/h

Stigning

710m

Nedstigning

710m

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