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The endlessride blog has moved

gareth — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:57:58 +0000

I’ve moved my mountain bike related blogging activities to

http://www.endoftheride.com

It seems more relevant!

Ride Morzine .org

gareth — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:05:39 +0000

RideMorzine is back online – it has a new TLD of .org. Lets see what happens with it!
http://www.ridemorzine.org

Lift opening dates for Morzine and Les Gets.

gareth — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:18:12 +0000

Les Gets (Chavannes and Mt Chery lift) will be opening a week early for mountain bikes on weekends only from May 30th until June 19th. And then from then on full time.

Goodness knows how, there is more than a normal amount of snow about at the moment!

Looks like the “main” lifts will be open June 26th until the August 30th. This came from the Chatel webpage.

Endlessride still has room at the in too.

Dents Blanche Ski Tour

gareth — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:32:46 +0000

This ski tour is described as a “classic” in the local guide book and rightly so. It’s described on camp to camp and ski tour. It’s fairly long (for me!), the first ascent is 1300m up the Tete de Bostan, followed by a descent of 100m to the col de Bostan, we did start up towards the Pas au Taureau (2555m) but were thawted by a steep section that had semi avalanched. It was very warm and had not frozen much overnight so we left it alone and headed up towards the Pointe de la Golette, which is best described at the “Dents Blanche”. In fact the Dents Blanche correctly refers to the whole chain. We stopped short of the summit. The top slope had caught the sun and looked like nasty skiing, plus we’d left Carl and Sara back at the col. The top bowl (now named snowshoe bowl after the lone, shorts wearing, very speedy snowshoer that was doing a good job at out pacing all the skiers on the hill that day (there was us 4 and one other)) contained some fair powder, after we picked up Carl and Sara (who would have waited, they seemed very content in the sun, out of the wind) we managed to get some good spring turns before we hut the rotten porridge further down. We stopped for a little while at the winter refuge next to the Refuge Bostan-Tornay, skins on again for a rising traverse back to the normal route. In total about 1600m of ascent. We set off at 8am and were back at the Crapahute at 3pm.

The map with the route marked on can be seen here.

There are loads of ski resources for the area here.

Alpine Property Blog MkII

gareth — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:11:55 +0000

You’ve probably heard it before but my main job is helping to sell chalets in the Haute Savoie. I run the back room for a team of 11 people that work for Alpine Property. I’ve done a new blog that links in with this. Click here to alpine chalets and apartments!

Mountain Bike and Road Bike Events around Morzine 2009

gareth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:49:21 +0000

Road Bike Events around Morzine, Summer 2009.

Cyclosportives

Cluses- Agy, 31/5 click here for more information

Time Megeve – Mt Blanc 14/6 click here for more information

Morzine – Montriond 21/6 click here for more information

La Grand Bo 28/6 click here for more information

Critérium Dauphiné Libéré June 7 to 14, route to be annouced, more information?

Le Tour de France, 22 July, passing through Cluses more information

Le Tour de France, 23 July, Annecy individual time trail more information

Morzine – Avoriaz hillclimb. This is held twice a summer. July 14th and the second Sunday morning of August.

Mountain Bike Events

Passportes du Soleil 27/28 June click here for more information FULL but still places left via endlessride

(Not that near to Morzine) Mega Avalanche 12/7 click here for info

Lift Opening Dates in Morzine and Les Gets

gareth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:44:35 +0000

Provisional Lift opening dates for 2009 are:
June 6th – limited Morzine and Les Gets lifts open (Pleney every day, Chavannes weekend of 6/7 June and then every day from June 14)
June 27th – full area lifts open
Aug 30st – full area lifts close
Sept 6th – limited area Morzine and Les Gets lifts close

The bikes come out in Morzine

gareth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:58:17 +0000

Carl, Sian and Andy (Biketreks) got the bikes out for a run around th Valley Verte yesterday, not mountain bikes mind you, the early season training machines.

You can see the left over snow, maybe a mountain bike would have been a better idea! Though looking at the depths of snow mountain biking could be an interesting game in June. Our holidays are starting as normal in June, though we hope to do some road biking then too.

A little ski tour

gareth — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:52:45 +0000

Ok so it’s not mountain biking yet, and it feels like a bit of a holiday!

Flaine, Combe de Gers

gareth — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:59:36 +0000

Thursday March 12th.