| Alpine Mountain Biking June 2006 Just back from a great trip to
Chamonix in the French Alps.
We took the ferry from Dover to Calais and drove down through France. |
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Accommodation was in les Houches and our first days biking was from the
local lift their. In the shadow of Mont Blanc! |
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| A day pass
for the lift was 14 Euros and that was the up hill done for the day!
Yo-Ho! Down hill all the way! |
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| The marked
routes were not too exciting but until July bikes are permitted on
footpath so there was plenty of interesting single track to be had. |
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| The Chamonix
valley is very much focused on Walking with a bit of biking available,
were as Morzine (about 1h drive away) is totally focused on Mountain
Biking! So that were we headed. |
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| A day
pass covered lifts at Morzine and les Gets we found Blue Red and
Black runs and plenty of exciting single through the trees if you were
repaired to venture of the main biking tracks. From the 1st of July
many more lift are open, making big round trips possible. |
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| All in
all a fantastic trip, would I go back? You bet...... but with body
armor and a full face helmet! Thanks to J 'n' D for sorting out the Accommodation. Simon |
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